603 Weekly Update (Week Commencing: 08/03/21)

My eyesight is getting worse due to staring at a screen all day, every day. So, at the start of the week I booked myself in for an eye test, before I return to Leeds. I'll be receiving a prescription in two weeks time, which should hopefully help with my headaches.

I then got on with 'The Last Riders' project. This is the only project I have to focus on for a while now, as I have pushed the colouring tasks back.

Link to Scene 17 (Character Animation Only)

This scene was very simple. There are a series of clips all one second long, that play in succession after Isla insults Marow. To save time, we had wrote that we could use stills in this sequence as they wouldn't require any animation. However, as I had time, I animated the other shots and therefore, decided to do the same with this, no matter how subtle.

Link to Scene 5 (Character Animation Only)

This was another scene that due to time, could be replaced with a still. However, I added some animation here too, to add a bit of energy and life to the scene.

At the start of the week, I advised all the directors in the projects I'm managing to put together all the scenes they have so far, as the lecturers seemed to prefer this format during weeklies.

Upon viewing 'The Last Riders' new animatic, there was an awkwardly long pause during one shot so, I brought this to the director's attention, assuming he would trim this down. However, when I saw the following draft, he'd instead added a new scene without consulting me. As producer, I need to be aware of the amount of scenes in the final cut, otherwise nobody would be scheduled to animate on them! 

After discussing it, there were no more worries - this was just a case of miscommunication. He wasn't intending on adding a scene, it was added to signify one of the character's actions in the previous shot. To clear up any confusion, I believe the animatic and storyboard should be updated so that everyone can see the same vision as at the moment, the outcome isn't clear. Rhys said he would amend this.

Link to Scene 26 (Character Animation Only)

I also managed to colour this shot. I'm still not happy with the smoke at all. Hopefully, if we have time before the deadline, a VFX animator could redo this aspect as I'm not happy with it.

Link to Personal Gantt Chart (08/03)

As the shots were quite simple this week, I was able to get back on track.

This weekend, I won't be able to work as I will be travelling back to Leeds.