Some resolutions

The last few days have been relatively productive, though I am still slightly behind schedule. This past week I’ve been making a point to wake up and sleep earlier so that I have more time and am well rested. Or reasonably so. It seems to be working.

Being held accountable is also helping . . . I am keeping a google document log, and though I haven’t been asked to, I’m starting to log how many frames I’ve drawn each day. I don’t know how frequently Will will look at it, but knowing that he could look at it keeps me on my toes.

I have almost finished animating Scene 1, with an exception of the Stork playing with the Baby. But I’m pretty sure that I’ll be coming back to it for a while yet. I showed one of the line tests to Will the other day and he commented “That doesn’t read at all”, which didn’t really offend me because I thought the same. It was one of those shots I pushed to meet quota. :P

For the time being I’ve decided not to quit work . . . I tackled Orville with a worse load. My attitude plays a big part in how I handle this, I believe. I’m not going to rule out leaving – but just not now.

My dear mum has kindly volunteered to be a background artist for me to help relieve my workload . . . I trust her as she does have a sense of artistic judgment . . . I don’t know how else to describe it. I taught her to use Photoshop – the basics of using layers, brushes, the smudge tool and the eraser. She’s picked it up – and relatively fast too – which is incredible for someone who freaks out at the sight of a computer update. I’m proud of her.

This is the first background mum worked on. I drew the foreground and mum did the rest. It’s not quite finished yet . . I copy/pasted the foreground from a different psd file so it looks grainy/pixelly . . but yeah, it’s not too bad.

Okay, I’m off to work on my paper now . . before I have to go to work. I’ve decided Sunday WILL be my rest day though . . . when I come home from work on Sunday night I will just relax and leave this all for the rest of the week.