Industry Review ... Great Job Steve Mann!!!

Color me impressed on the feedback all the students received during the review. I was particularly pleased with mine as the good news is that I'm on the right track! or rather I don't have to change the direction I'm going. So, yeah! I was pretty sure the length/timing would come up, but I was pleased that it wasn't a question of "cutting" anything, rather, I can still do everything I want to do it will just take less time then my animatic shows. Fair enough. I completely agree. Off to buy a stop watch.

The "next steps" was to act out and time my scenes with a stop watch.

Find images or footage that best represent the action/mood/expression of the scene and edit them together in a new animatic to better understand the action/reaction I want to achieve without having to worry if my drawings are good enough or conveying the right message.

When my models and set done, even in rough form, "act" out the scenes by moving the characters and cameras around to better understand the timing and angles.

Modeling - mouth open and wings need to fit into the body better. [working on it!] opened the mouth last night, added the inside of the mouth and a "mouth bag" or whatever they call it in "Stop Staring". It was pretty cool because a lot of the modeling took place inside the head - like being inside the Statue of Liberty.

I'll play around with some rigging and torture tests to see how they deform.

Not sure if I'll start Dee yet, or keep going with Rosa.

I think I need to start Dee ...

Anyway, hope to show Steve an updated model and see if the wing is working as it should.