pasithea

Last night I re-photographed the linework for the bunny.

After all the fiddling in flash, the output really wasn't acceptable. Much too wiggly.

So now that I've learned about droplets in Photoshop, we're gonna do it in that instead.

I also sat down with Stacey and had a production meeting! She'd not gotten around to colouring on the bunny mostly because of communication issues with me (Not only am I small and petty, sometimes I don't listen either)

So.. We discussed and developed a scheme for making operations run much more professionally.

Tha List!

Layout of cel numbering often inconsistent! Pre-print across the bottom of the cel:
Project: Project Name here Sequence: Layer: Frame#:
Physical folders hard to identify at a glance. In addition to text tab on folders, add 4"x3" sticker on front of folder with the storyboard scene on it.
Paperclip dope sheet(s) to inside front of folder.
Attach on top of dope sheet for completed animation.
Record animation-stand tick counts relative to field guide or last photo
Make Color Guide, create adobe swatches palette of color guide
Project Folder Layout:
Master Folder

So. I'm retroactively applying all of this to the bunny. O_O Lotsa administrative work but it needsta be done. Stacey said the color guide (Or lack thereof) was the main hangup for her so I went ahead and made a combined one for the bunny. The Adobe swatch palettes are pleasantly small. The one for the bunny is a whopping 760 BYTES. :) That means if I ever conned more people into doing ink and paint, I could easily just batch off a folder or two to CD along with the palette and ship it to them and have everyone working off the same stuff. :)

I'm honestly starting to feel that it IS possible to make real animation this way. :)

Anyhow. I have lots more work to do. So I'll close with a copy of the color guide for 'Magic Portal' so people can finally glimpse what this project might look like when its completed!