It's All Over

That's it. She's done. The film is complete!

 

It's incredibly difficult to believe, but yes indeed it is done. Honestly, I never thought I get to say those words. Especially since it fought me to be bitter end – the very last TIF sequence had to be hand retouched in Photoshop, which was fairly easy, but Premiere refused to accept the changes. In the end I had to hand place each one of the cels.

Un-freaking believable!

Anyway, I've learned a lot from this mess. I even think I have a fairly decent piece of animation to show (if I do say so myself). Now I've got to burn DVDs and start sending copies out to film festivals. We'll see how people react to it.

Hopefully, they'll like it.

Now I can sit back a relax for a while. But only a while. I have to catch up with the real world and get a job so I can start paying for this education. Ha ha – wheeeeee!

Anyway, I'd say stay tuned, but there won't be another entry in this blog. Off to bigger and better things I supposed. Good luck, godspeed, bon chance and all that sort of stuff.

Well, maybe you should stay tuned. I may just have an idea for another animation brewing. Until then...

Nearing the End

This is it, the final week.

And as usual I have not accomplished as much as I had hoped to in the week leading up to this. I’m still struggling with relationships, possible depression, job hunt, and family. Well, at least the job search is looking brighter. I think I nailed an interview yesterday with Fisher-Price (the department I would be working for does pretty much exactly what I’ve been doing in school for the past seven years) and I have another one tomorrow. Unfortunately, that cuts into my work time on this project.

That brings us to what is left to do.

I have to finished colorizing (more specifically, gray-scaling) the Photoshop file for shot 020, and I have to colorize (actual color this time) the files for shot 021. I have a feeling that’s going to take about 12 hours. It’s boring, it’s repetitive, but it’s easy. I throw some music on and just go. As to the rest, I have about a dozen or so tweaks that run the gamut from slowing down some After Effects animation to adding a head to a reflection. With that done, I’ll be almost done.

Almost.

The final piece of the puzzle will be playing everything out as jpgs and bringing it back into the Premiere file for final output. Hopefully that will be relatively easy. We’ll see. In the meantime I really have to get back to work.

Stay tuned…