The Pressure is on

School officially kicked into gear, along side with its useless distractions, such as 3 liberal arts classes, poeple, girls and what not..

I also had my first 'unofficial thesis class' with Rob, and we devised a plan for the near future. I need to start animating in 3 weeks. For this semester, I want to finish all the preperations including models, rigs, textures and cloth/hair/soft bodies, and finish the 2 main dream sequences, which are essencially about 40-50% of the film's run time. Winter break would be a big stretch, as it has no distractions. I want to finish re-record the voice (in a recording studio), sample subway noise, and hopefully lock down the music with Dory. Also during that time I want to begin animating the dialogue scenes, about 5 of them.

The Spring semester is the final run. Only 1 extra course should give me plenty of time to finish the remaining 12 scenes in about 6 weeks. The remainder of the time should be spent on lighting, rendering and putting it all together.

As for the next week, my goal is to finish off homie's test shot (not including cloth / hair) as well as Lucy face and body fully rigged, and thats all by next wednesday. By the way, Homie's rig is complete, and lucy has all her blendshapes. The week after that it's figuring out the cloth and hair, texturing and more work on inside of train. A week later the first dream sequence should be ready to go, including the track / toy train rig.