Extras

Yup, extras need to be animated too.

That I learned 4

Fear the "Easy Shot", cause there is no such thing as easy shot.

LazyBrush is a great tool

I present with the greatest fill tool yet, The lazy Brush. If you're a TVPaint user then there's no reason why you shouldn't give this tool a go. It's helpful, solid, and very affordable. Here's a little demo:

Progress in mind mapping

Hello all,
Working solo on a project like this requires a lot of organizational skills which I'm not very well known for, so I use XMind to track of my assets and progress, and keep an eye on the bigger picture. I highly recommend it if you're working on a similar project. Here's my bigger picture so far.

ASIFA East open screening follow up

A very generous review of "Dirty Laundry Day" from the ASIFA East open screening night. Pressure is on!

http://www.asifaeast.com/open-screening-2013/ 

After screening beers

L to R: Jamil Lahham, Emmett Goodman, John Lustig, Stephen Seus, Robert Lyons, Nick Dubois.

Animation Clean up

The open screening night went very well. The audience (which was mostly other film makers) were following the story-line closely, and the ending raised a lot of questions and discussions afterwards which was real comforting and satisfying to me. I think I will plan another showing (for non film makers) in a later phase when all animatic parts are turned into rough animation and all backgrounds are ready and implemented.

This is one of the cleaned up shots onion skin.

Dirty Laundry Day at ASIFA East open screening night

I'll be showing WIP of the short at ASIFA East open screening night. If you're in town and would like to check it out here are the info:

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

SVA, 209 E. 23rd St., 3rd Floor Amphitheater 

7 PM, Admission: FREE

A new shot involves a miniature car pic.twitter.com/dnCIiFO774

— Dirty Laundry Day (@laundryday2) September 15, 2013

Another Background done.

I noticed that I've been noodling the backgrounds way too much, especially when I took a step back and looked at the bigger picture, and that is to finish the short before I run out of juice. Here's my latest work.

That I learned 3

"Do things the hard way"
No puns here, there's a merit to doing things the longer harder way versus the easy "smart" way.