As you can see, the completion rate will continue as it has for the past four weeks of production. Then, just as it looks like everything is going to go wrong, a little under 50% is to be completed in the last two or three days.
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Francis Cooper said hello and goodbye to its 5th animator so far; Lazenby (like George Lazenby). Now well over a minute has been animated and it's not even well over a week since I last updated. I'm still no mathematician.
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After just two weeks, probably over a minute of the film has now been animated. I'm not a mathematician but with the animatic coming in at 8'30'' and with less that five weeks to go I make that bang on schedule.
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This weekend was spent putting Emily Maddison in 3D space. She now pulls out at a junction and drives down a street. Her car moves on seven independent layers and, as she turns, light is cast on the right side of her car. It's a technical marvel. Not since the "bullet time" scenes in The Matrix have people been so blown away by visual effects like these. In addition to this the individual pores on Emily's skin (not to mention her hair - which incidentally took a team of 20 artists 3 months to animate) means it takes a 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon powered computer with 16 GB of RAM 15 minutes to render out the final scene which is just 20 seconds long; adding £600,000 to the budget on render time alone.
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I'm back from Annecy and working on the Francis Cooper film. We went to London a few weeks ago to record the narration which has turned out well I think.
I've now got an animatic and one scene animated. I'm working on the second now with the help of detailed diagrams labeled with numbers.
Matthew Walker, award winning animator and director, is sitting close by building his latest animated character which he will shortly begin animating for his latest animated classic.
Outside there is glorious sunshine. Perfect for playing Nerf.
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...you can see
The Worst Thing Ever? here on iPlayer (for five more days only! UK only I think...) or bits of it
here (just click Libby's tips in the drop down boxes).
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Tomorrow at twenty past four on BBC1 is
The Worst Thing Ever. A Newsround special that I co-directed animation for with Emma Lazenby at Arthur Cox. Matt (over there <--) directed some animation on a BAFTA winning special last year,
The Wrong Trainers. You can watch his part
here. It was nominated for a BAA this year, too. Hector (
remember?) won a BAA. Well done Sarah and Sally.
Also
Keith Reynolds is in the official short film selection at Annecy this year. So is Matt's (over there <--) John and Karen and also Operator. And so is Sally's A-Z. And Sarah's Don't Let It All Unravel is in Panorama. Well done Sarah and Sally.
BBC1 16:20!
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When it's masculine, Frances is spelled Francis.
most of the film has now been storyboarded. Next week some edit time has been booked to do a scratch recording of the narration and start (maybe finish?) an animatic. This will be interesting because
- I'll find out roughly how long it will be.
- I'll have something I can watch right the way through.
Me, Matt, and Ben drew those. Don't worry - the envelope was going to be thrown away.
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Keith Reynolds has won a regional (the Welsh one) RTS Student Television Award.
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After just two weeks, probably over a minute of the film has now been animated. I'm not a mathematician but with the animatic coming in at 8'30'' and with less that five weeks to go I make that bang on schedule.
