May 16th, 2016

William Cox

May 16th, 2016

Senior Project

Monday

Today I got in early, feeling good and ready to go. I began working on my elephant, but quickly put him aside when I had an idea for a new scene. This scene included an eye, which cries a tear that then sprouts a plant, and the eye becomes a sun over the plant. This scene took up the rest of my day, which is somewhat sad because of how short it actually is. For this scene I used a new tactic, instead of drawing and erasing on the same sheet of paper, I began to use several sheets of paper over each other, because I could see through the first sheet, I could then draw on the second sheet with precise marks, so that the objects in the scene could move with fluidity in the final animation. I am beginning to worry that I will not have enough animation to have a presentable project at the end of the term. But at the same time I am happy to be back making progress in the studio, and plan to continue my endeavor tomorrow at lightening pace. I think that for this animation to be presentable I will need to come up with a lot more filler, and some longer scenes, because as of right now I only have short scenes, minus the scene I shot on the first day, which makes up most of the actual animation. Perhaps I can come up with a way to do a similar scene, because that scene required less drawing and erasing and more just capturing frames for the final animation. Which speeds up the process a lot and makes it far less tedious.