Status Report for January 14, 2008

I have two of the three 2-D movies’ animatics reels completed. Both films clock in at around 2 minutes 30 seconds, which will make them longer than any other film I’ve released except for Break Time. Film number three is in the works; should have the reel completed tomorrow. Once I figured out how to run the master editor, putting these together was pretty easy.

One film I am NOT making an animatics reel for is ‘Evolution’. I’ve already had two false starts on this, and I’m afraid trying to do the animatics on it could be the kiss of death. I already know how the story is supposed to go, so let’s just get on with it, shall we?

Speaking of getting on with it, I need to make a stop at the art store to pick up some tracing paper. I figure by mid-week we’ll be drawing our first keyframes. Sweet! Now, up to this point I’ve been working on all the movies simultaneously so I could handle dialog recording and animatics reels at one time. After this last reel gets put together, though, I’m gonna switch gears and go into a one-movie-at-a-time production mode, right up until it’s time to be released. At least, that’s the plan. The odds of the plan staying on plan are not promising, but I’m going to try and be a good boy and actually follow through on this (Actually, the odds are strongly in favor of me working on one film til I hit a production brick wall, then moving on to the next movie, eventually getting back to the first movie when all the other ones have hit their walls)…

Got about twenty percent of the dialog for the new robot movie recorded. As I feared, doing the robot’s voice is murder on my throat, so I have to space apart the recording days. This might drag on through the rest of January. There’s really not that much dialog, though — maybe I have an outside chance of getting all the parts recorded before February. That would be nice…