OWA 72: Still Animating. “Wait, Mister!” Page is Up.

Hard to believe it’s been 3+ months since I started on my attachment. Here I am, still plugging away with only a few weeks left to go. I have to admit, some days felt waaaaay too long while others seemed to rush on by. Much more of the latter than the former thankfully. As you can see by my lack of posts recently it’s been really hectic and busy. At the same time lots of things have been happening and so the stuff I want to write about just keep piling up so that I need even more time to write a post (me being the perfectionist that I am)! The cycle was about to go into an infinite loop until I decided something had to be done to break it.

So right now I’m taking a short break at the office to just type out a few things while I can still remember them. Btw, I upgraded WordPress to version 2.3.1 and had to change the layout theme since the previous one couldn’t pull up my categories and archives anymore. I like the simplicity of this one anyhow (although I don’t think I can resist changing that banner before long) so I think I’ll keep it for awhile.

OK. Back to the topic at hand. As mentioned before, I’m still animating shots on the 3D film. Some I worked on straight from layouts while on others I helped out with secondary characters and actions. I’d love to talk more about the stuff I’ve been doing and the goings on here but I don’t want to get in trouble. Maybe I’ll bring it up in my future posts after the movie is released. Nothing scandalous or controversial I assure you. Just something for those curious about what goes on in a typical(?) animated feature film production. We’ll see.

On a somewhat related note, I was asked to vacate the nice house they put me up in and am now sharing a much larger house with the new guy they just hired. Rafe’s a really cool guy who previously worked on Happy Feet and is here to help out on IFW’s new projects. Too bad I don’t have time to pick his brains right now. I’m sure he’s got other more important stuff to do anyhow. The house is spacious, with a nice verandah to chill out in (if it’s not raining too hard), large bedrooms and very posh bathrooms and proper cable TV and a washing machine. Unfortunately it’s his house and I’m the guest, unlike previously where I was on my own and could basically do whatever I wanted. It’s also much further from the office which makes walking a bit of a hassle (you try lugging a laptop in jeans and a polo t-shirt under the hot sun or the pouring rain for 15 min).

I did manage to bring my family over to visit the last couple of days before moving out though. I’ve always wanted to have them come over and have a bit of a holiday here; check out where I’ve been working and staying etc. I just planned for it to be much later when the workload wouldn’t be as heavy. However as usual, circumstances dictated otherwise. Still, they had a decent time - the restaurant and office staff were really looking forward to meeting my kids. They were even treated to a screening of some scenes from the movie-in-progress by the director, which they enjoyed. Much as I’d love for my kids to run rampant around the office, I figured the rest of the production guys wouldn’t appreciate having their busy work schedule disrupted.

Moving on.

I know it’s been a long time coming and any semblance of anticipation you may have had is probably dead and buried by now, but I promised to do it so here it is - my MA final project “Wait, Mister!”. Do watch it. I hope you enjoy it. Then comment on it please.

I have more stuff to write about but I’ll end here for now. Maybe I’ll post more over the weekend. Until then, thanks for stopping by and do have a good day!

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