Long-Hai Artist/Animator Blog

 Class5 has been a great experience and I’ll have to dive into animation soon. Lots of planning, planning and more planning for the next few days.

 Here is another installment of my short film. I think the story is tighter and much more readable than it has been in past versions. I’m going to have to think of an interesting way to get the mask to become more paper like and less like a real mask. Since he just kinda crafted one ” on the spot” to cheer up the girlfriend. And of course the ever crazy battle of trying to shorten the length of the short overall. But things are looking up as we near the end of the 5th class.

 First 1/3rd of the my short film has been put through 3d for layout purposes. And I’ve done a few  changes to the story to tighten the ending. I was a bit up against the wall as far as ideas went to get everything readable for the audience. My mentor threw some great suggestions out there and I broke out the wacom and decided to go with them. Hope it reads well.

 So the first 1/2 of my animatic will be definitely shortened. And a lot of finer points to be pushed and refined. Now comes my second 1/2. My mentor Jed will probably give me a critique in a day or so and I’ll be able to do one final pass on both halves for this week. Hoping to get it looking cleaner and more cohesive as a short story. Wish me luck. I gotta come up with some time saving ideas in the next couple days..