Progress!

Things are finally coming together! I’ve started putting all of the vector and Flash images together in After Effects finally and it looks awesome. I changed the design of the car to something that I think looks better in a minimalistic sense. It is based off of an Aston Martin DB5, which is pretty much my favorite car ever. Its colors match the jet better instead of going from straight grey to bright blue. It’s really satisfying to see things start to come together since I felt like the Flash animation was taking far too long with little reward. I’m going to post a video of the rough stuff later and then I’ll post another one before my image check next week. It’s an ambitious goal but I’d like to have 75% of my stuff put together by then. I imagine the t-rex walk will take the longest and I’ll probably leave that as the last bit of primary animation. I want it to look good and I don’t wanna rush it so I’d like to be able to dedicate about 2 or 3 days to it to get everything right. I’m still in contact with professor Markowski and I’m hoping to meet with him later this week to discuss details. At this point I’m thinking I’m gonna scrap the music overlay idea or at least make it a faint instrumental track to focus on little details. I’m still looking into marketing ideas at this point. I’m thinking that while I would love to submit to animation-only festivals, broader festivals would be a good idea too. Going off of the logic that we used for visions, the animations are typically shorter than everything else and light hearted so we didn’t have to be as tight about what we kept. Whereas if I submitted to a pure animation festival, while there may be a lot more opportunities to network and get my stuff out there, I believe it will be much harder to get in. My work would likely get scrutinized against other animations in terms of the quality of the animation and other factors to a much greater degree. Any way these are just my thoughts on the assignment at this point.