February Update

Quite a bit has changed for the Empty Skies project.

The first being that it may be entirely an animation instead. Once I wrote the script for the animation and timed it out, it came to around 2 minutes, the time that I should aim for. However, as I've been making the animatic, I find that it may actually be closer to a minute and 45 seconds long instead. I've a bit over one minute of the animatic done thus far. Here is the progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-hkPDJCa4Q&feature=youtu.be Here's the link just in case


So far the animatic is telling two separate stories. The rest of it will have the stories intertwine.

I also have a few proof of concepts. The first one is actually the very first shot in the animatic, which is actually a test of the void.
I received a good critique and will be changing it up a bit, but here is the first shot again

I've also a proof of concept for animating in flash in general, as the program is new to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMpucQRmhU&feature=youtu.be Here is the link again just in case


Beyond those, I've done quite a few of sketches in my sketchbook of the characters during classes. I'll  be uploading those tomorrow. As for today, I have some minor updates to a few of the character sheets.

Seren's planet form has color, which I needed for the proof of concept. I also added a few layers of lighting to Seren's void form.

Marcelos has most of his color pallet down. It's honestly not too different from his old one though. I love his pants. They're just so bright and fun.

I have a sheet started for The Beginning. I may scrap it though. I had one sheet I made of her that was wonderful, then lost it. Since then every attempt I've made to like her look has... failed. 

Finally here is my production schedule at the moment.

I have the lines for the Beginning, though they're not in the animatic yet. Seren's were wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Calamity I was going to record with Monday, however, I fell dreadfully ill with the stomach flu. This left me bedridden for several days. I was also weak the monday I was to record with Calamity's voice actor, and fearful of infecting him or any of my classmates. So I have to reschedule with him. 

For the most part I want to finish up the animatic, proof of concept, and character sheets so I can jump right into animation. The fact that the first shot is already mostly done is encouraging.