I AM NIGHTMARE Production Diary #7
So after less than a week of production I have 8 minutes of edited animation- I'm currently on a quota of ten shots a day- so far so good!
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Here's a pic of my boards I took whilst animating
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I printed out some animation reference sheets I found and tacked em up next to the walk cycle ref
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The movie is coming out AWESOME and I'm getting through the shots really fast! All the shots I've completed though my last 2 features plus all the short things like Badassery and Darksided have really helped speed up my workflow and the time it takes me to animate- I'm actually amazed at how easy animating this movie is with how good its coming out 0_0
Through doing the work you learn tricks and techniques to make things easier and faster so I guess I have learned a lot of those ^_^
I just got the rest of the voice acting stuff from the voice actors- I have an amazing cast- I'll introduce you to them soon!
It almost feels like my first two films were practice and this is the real thing knowing what I know now- and I've said it before but this film is sort of a blend of We Are The Strange and Heart String Marionette-
If you haven't pre-ordered the film yet now is the perfect time as I just released the 27 song soundtrack for the film to everyone who pre-ordered it- so you'll get that along with your hand drawn postcard from me. Although as I've been editing the film as I'm going along I realize there is a deficiency in creepy music so Dash or I will have to make some!
Start making your cg movie today! There is no better time!Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.