Manic

Manic, manic, manic! Quite possibly the only word which can be used to describe the past couple of weeks most definitely what is to come. As of yesterday all the stop-motion is done on Ben?s project, towards the end I was also doing the animation since Ralph was busy doing his rough-cut. I mainly ended up doing the lip-sync scenes which were a tad challenging since I hadn't had the luxury of being able to do any tests so I was acquainting my-self with the character on the fly. The early scenes I shot are a bit ropey but I quickly got used to Helvis and came to discover that slight, understated movements where a lot more effective.

On my project Jake has started to put some sound together, which has had an unbelievable effect on the animation and has really perked it up and help tie the story together. I have currently got two edits on the go, one which is pretty close to the last rough edit and another which is a sort of hybrid of various ideas from Andy and Georg where the piper appears right at the beginning and lures the creatures out of hiding. I was favoring this new edit but now I have seen the old one with sound I?m veering back towards that one again ? this is starting to look like a repeat of my pre-production dilemma so I need to make a decision ASAP and stick with it. In the meantime I plan to be making it all look pretty in Photoshop.

In other news, I have started to design business cards and the website for when I am thrust into the big scary real world. The cards are bit all over the place as I am not really sure what to describe myself as, Georg suggested I just stick my name and contacts on it and then decide what I want to do based on who I am presenting the card to. Once I have a sort of theme going on the cards I will transfer this over to the website, which for the time being is just a URL.