Ahahaha I suck.
Well, I timed out the thumbnails in AE. As I was doing it, I thought of a TON of new ideas and locations for the fighting, and now it's going to be on a roof. A bit of a cop out, but there's something awesome about a rooftop battle. I also thought it'd be a cool shot to have bugs crawling the building to get to her, and then--yeah. Also figured out some story and staging issues that were really bugging me, so that's great.
Started the 3D animatic, and it's going so slowly. I'm roughly twenty seconds in, and welllll...this movie might be five minutes long. I don't want it to go over four, but I'm shooting for the sweet spot of three and a half. I fully realize how crazy that is, and after hopping into Maya, I've forgotten a lot. It's depressing. It's been...wow, almost two years since I graduated, and a year and a half since I've done some heavy animation work. So it's a good thing that I'm jumping back in to this program. You really can forget a lot really fast.
Anyway, yeah. I'm hoping to get a minute done this weekend. If I can. I'm just so angry that my skills have depreciated this much. Sigh. It's my fault, really. Should've kept better notes. This project will get me back up to a good level, and then I can see about reentering the industry with money behind me. Will also need to do some short animation tests.
Other than that, I'm building a new computer! My Mac is lovely, but frankly, it won't be able to handle the workload I'm going to put on it in the coming months. Looking at around 1500 bucks right now...yeesh. I can more than afford it, and really, it's like 400 dollars a year before I'll have to upgrade it again at all.
So, yeah! Strongly considering making something slightly smaller, maybe a test model and rig. I don't have a lot of time to myself, though...it's a little sad.
But that's where I am now!
