Animatic Final Reviews

Over the past few days I've been revisiting my animatic. With the help of some friends who are great producers, Greg Ryan, and 'Marc Withasee' - I have managed to add music and sound effects to this new cut. This cut also includes two of my little voice actors, the real Ben and George Caluan. Both Ben and George, came to my place for one day to record the script for the film. It was a tiring day but had some great results.

Unfortunately I wasn't entirely happy with all of the voice acting, But this was mainly due to time constraints. George found it a lot easier to get into character for the voice recording over the day. and so Bens recording did not quite make the final cut. However, I fully intend to re-record Ben and George at a later date after my submission. This will give me a chance to spend more time on the voice acting over a number of days when they are available. At the moment my schedule is very tight and I need to push on with things to get the film finished, and so I've had to compromise on the voice acting and use my own voice for the character Ben in the film.

I also see much of my animation having to be compromised for my submission, all of my animation will end up being quite minimal and the most of it will be done on 4s to save time. My main priority right now is being able to submit as much of a complete and coherent narrative as possible even if some of the scenes have minimal animation quite like an animatic. If this were a professional project, then I would consider this to be a decision base on the budget available.

I'm becoming increasingly aware that the look and finish of this film through the composition and background painting is becoming quite important to me. I seeing this film is an opportunity to produce and present a body of work primarily reflecting my skills and abilities in digital painting and art direction. I'm therefore quite naturally spending a lot of time focusing on this.