Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Planning Drawings! O.O

The first episode's backgrounds should be all done by the time casting is over.  In the meantime, I'm working on planning drawings, which are thumbnails of the key poses, extremes, and in-betweens that are used to plan a scene instead of that pose-to-pose technique (which is NOT fun).  After that, I do several straight-ahead runs of rough animation.

I've decided to nix the storyboards from now on since I'm the only person planning scenes and movement; it's not like I have a whole animation team to send a storyboard off to.  It'll save me a lot of time and money (I'm looking at YOU, Kinko's).

MUSIC!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Happy Birthday to me!

I level up today at 11:45 PM.  I'll be 20!
Anyways, GtM news.  The backgrounds aren't finished, but I want to hire voice actors already!!!  I need to ink and color the official pictures of the characters for a visual reference (they're just sketches now).  I think I'll still have to wait until all of the backgrounds for the first two episodes are done.

Edit (5-21): Official character art was finished several days ago, and the backgrounds for the first episode are about halfway done.  A few are completely finished, but many of them are line drawings almost ready to be colored.