On Monday I put together my production schedules and updated my Gantt chart. I have an incredibly busy May so I had to plan everything very carefully around my events and other work commitments.
During the morning we had a class on multiplane and camera in Harmony, but I had already learned these techniques in a project last year, so I used the time to contuinue sorting out emails about student rep duties.
On Tuesday, my schedule already went awry. I was planning to create my puppet rigs but I realized I needed references for the 3/4 pose of Arlo, Callie, And Petra. I ended up redoing my turnarounds using help from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuWAhysR1qY. Using the top view and turning it to transl;ate the 3/4 view made the process so much quicker.
I finished Petra and Callie’s rigs first, and on Wednesday I then finished Arlo’s. There were no deformations or anything fancy as I wanted the puppest to mimic actual cutout shadow puppets.
Alfie from the future writing: this was the point where I was so busy with life, and running on pure fumes that I abandoned my weekly reflections. My PDF still contains reflection of this time, but as our apartment continued to fall apart and other events I had committments to approached, I had to focus all my energy of actually creating my work and not just writing about creating my work. Fortunately, this is the point where what I was working on, can actually be seen in the final outcome. Below I have left the evidence of my descent into insanity as this week drew to a close. (And yes, the leak was really bad, our ceiling was pouring and the brown doodoo water soaked through many a towel)
Thursday keyed first scene fully and worked on bg, will continue tmrw at uni
my house started leaking and it was a whole mess trying to contact the council and our landlord etc
Friday, worked on scene 2 finished keying briggs and started arlo run cycle