Where To Go Next...

In comparison to the past few weeks where I had a lot of things to show off, there's nothing new I can really present at the moment. I've been doing a lot of planning and organizing my thoughts. I made a list of every single background that I need to draw. I made a list of every single sound effect I need and I made a list of every place I need to make a music cue for. The past few days have been spent finding and making sound effects. It's taking longer than I thought. Once I have all the sound effects I can quickly toss them into the animatic and present that. I also will have a few new bits of animation done in the last few weeks of the semester, such as the tortoise without his shell on, and run cycles for the hare and sheep.
I can't wait for the winter break so I can sit down for hours working on this animation without having to worry about work for other classes, assuming my attention span lasts that long. Oh well.

Fun In After Effects

I was playing around in After Effects to see some of the effects I hadn't tried out yet.

Completed Tortoise and the Hare Animatic

Alright, the moment I've been waiting for. I can at last start the final animation. And if you look at certain parts in this video, you can see I already have.

Animatic Progress 3

After Effects: Color Blending

A new sample of my After Effects work is on Youtube:

Animatic Progress 2

Dog Walk Cycle

Animatic Progress 1

I have been busy lately and my animatic isn't as far along as I would like it to be at this point.
It's OK, though. At least I am giving myself until Thanksgiving break to complete it.
I will be posting my progress on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcOs7roaej8

and Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/31620902

Racing Flag

This took me waaaaaaayyyyy longer than I had hoped. And it's not even 1 second long.
I'm just uploading it for the sake of recording that I spent a lot of time working today.