Dudes dudes

People what's shaking? Alright, this week was some horrible group cohesion. I don't think we had a single proper gathering - attendance was all over. Today for example we were supposed to look at 'half' the animation (don't worry, dont think anyone met that) and cut it into the leica reel but we totally ignored it. This can't happen again..

Are you committed to doing this or not? We have some really cool work, some really awesome visual ideas, but if we don't work like mad from now on it won't happen. This is crunch time but it feels so casual... wheres the group energy that we feed off from one another? Everyone that IS showing up is wasting so much time - its not fair to us.

I realise everyone is probably sick to death of all this by now, believe me I'm getting there, but we can't quit here. Finish the film first. There is no way in hell after spending countless hours on this and sacrificing other important things that we come out empty handed.

So please... please... lets make next week a better week - and the rest of year. The rewards come at the screening. Don't lose sight of the goal. :)

mandatory meeting nights

Hey All;

After the last few meetings - the group of us at school last night decided to remove one of the mandatory nights as well as shortening the night we are keeping. They are just not proving to be as effective as we had hoped.

So for now on, our mandatory night is Tuesday from 4:30 - 7:30pm. We are starting at 4:30 so people have time to grab food prior to meeting up.

Also;
Nate and I went to the FX workshop for the 4th years. They covered pretty much everything we needed. I made some quick videos that I have to go through before posting them on the server and blog.

Coming Along

It's kind of a beast of a pan, and I only just solved the merge issue. It'll be awesome.

ran's opening scene test

it is awesome, he must share. this is ran's thingy btw, I'm just doing the grunt work of uploading.

progress

hey all;

Sorry I havent been around much this past week - I have been feeling kind shitty as of late.
Between naps and tylenol intakes I have been busy working on my scenes as planned.

Here is some of what I have done the last few days:
(I will bring everything in for sweatbox monday)

First I re-thumbnailed the post-explosion scenes that I have - to create a better flow between them after removing the scene where archer looks at his arm.
Here is what I have:

Archer wakes up under tank.
He frees himself from under tank.
Archer walks a step forward - pauses.
Archer turns and looks around.
Truck-out to post-explosion destruction.
cut back to Archer, he turns.
Looks at Tank.
CU of tank as his implant fades..
cut back to archer looking down at tank.
he reaches up and touches his implant..
and gets shocked/hurt.

Let me know what you think..

second to show is the rough layout and line test of the truck-out/post-explosion scene:


Next is a rough layout for the over-head shot of Archer and the soldier.
And finally a rough sketch of the waterfall with the mountains based off the photo and rough layouts I have seen thus far. Any suggestions would be appreciated, I have a different sketch thats cleaner that I still have to scan as well.

Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated - I will have it all to show for critique tomorrow as well.

Later Daze Guys and Gals!

reminder

meetings:
monday - 11 to 12
tuesday - 1 to 2 (DQ Mentor Meeting)
thursday - 10 to 11 (after tony's meeting) THIS week, be in C140C at 9. it's a two-hour thing, software workshop.

work periods:
tuesday - 4 to 9
wednesday - 3 to 9

just a reminder!