June 1st - Milestones

Milestones
-Animated a complete sequence
-Figuring out the color style and animation
-Created a system to gauge the size of the project
-Weekly backups turning this project into almost 15 gbs
-Laid out a foundation of placeholder files in preparation of art and color

The Month of May
I discovered that I typically average about 4 hours a day working on this project. I am also discovering that the more time I spend just worrying about 2 seconds of animation, the less of a gain it’ll receive. A reminder; It’s more important to have something physical and just created rather than having something perfect from the start.

Score
This score is calculated from the month of May 21st to June 1st.

Art 277/1620 + 526 = 803/1620
Animation - 119/1620 + 87  = 197/1620

April 28

Sequences worked on
(animating) – 11-09b, 09-00a, 09-00b, 09-00c, 09-00c, 09-00d
(art assets) -
(assist) -

Hours : 2 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Popeye’s breakfast, balogna hoagie dinner

May 26

Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) – 02-00, 02-01, 03-00, 03-01; 06-ALL
(assist) -

Hours : 2 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : No
regular work? : No
food? : Hot dogs, Lean cruisine sandwich

106 points

Morning Score
Art 546/1620  
Animation 119/1620

New Score
Art 546/1620 + 106 = 652 
Animation 119/1620

May 25

Color examples. The top one with the various thumbnails is what I am using to reinforce the idea of strong colors and silhouettes for characters behind texture-faded backgrounds.

The image with the Castle is how I want the Intro chapter to look like, but I’m still working on it.

The bottom one with the purple cat is how the overall film will look like. Black outline characters in front of vector-ish backgrounds. Influenced by Samurai Jack, LoZ : Windwaker, and Chowder. Bright colors, textures, and brush strokes will achieve that effect.

May 22

Sequences worked on
(animating) -
(art assets) – 09-ALL; 11-05 to 11-08; 03-00 to 04-06; 03-00 to 03-03; 01-00 to 01-02; 06-ALL; 07-ALL 
(assist) -

Hours : 3 hours 30 minutes
worked out? : no
regular work? : yes (6 to midnight)
food? : spam breakfast,

Morning Score
Art 362/1620
Animation 119/1620

New Score
Art 362/1620 + 184 = 546/1620
Animation 119/1620

May 21

Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) - random
(assist) -

Hours : 4 hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes – 6 to 10
food? : Chicken bits breakfast, lean cuisine dinner, lots of fruit

MORNING COUNT
Art 277/1620
Animation 119/1620

END COUNT
Art 277/1620 + 85 = 362/1620
Animation 119/1620

May 20

Sequences worked on :
(animating) -
(art assets) – 08-00, 08-01
(assist) -

Hours : 4 and a half hours
worked out? : No
regular work? : Yes. 6 to 9:30
food? : Chicken Breakfast + chicken dinner, with fruit dessert

For anybody that’s interested, I made a layout sheet of all the work that’s ahead of me. I broken my 28 minute film into various pieces to organize my animation.

28 minute film; broken into
13 Chapters (each lasting about 1 to 3 minutes); broken into
324 Sequences (each lasting about 5 to 20 seconds);
broken into A LOT OF THINGS TO DO.

Here’s how I organized them.

I broke it up into categories such as sketch and color for the ARTWORK files. I also broke it into categories for the ANIMATION files.

Also note the little tick boxes. I tick it off when it’s complete.  There is a total of 22 of these sheets (11 for Art, 11 for Animation)

I have concluded that there are 1620 tick boxes for each department. (I don’t count the last category. So 5 * 324 Sequences)

So like an RPG, I’ll get stronger every time I tick a box! Except instead of fighting monsters, I’m drawing and coloring.
I’ll start including the tickbox countdown in the blog.

-MikaUpdates team