Episode Titles

Ruby Gets Spruced Up!

Now that's fine animation!

Three Stages of Wheekly

As it was my duty today to prepare episode 4 for animation, that left me no choice but to finally design the Honorable Mayor William Winston Wheekly.

Episode 1, Rough Animation Complete!

This is a much more complete delivery than I expected to make. Episode one is running about two weeks ahead of schedule! This version has the assisting and inking done for all but a few scenes and that wasn't scheduled to be complete until June 28th.

The audio is still rough placeholder. Especially noticeably absent is the audio for Pixie and Ruby's struggle in the bathroom.

The unfortunate flip side to being ahead on Ep 1 is that Ep 2 is a bit behind. We have a rough animation delivery of episode two scheduled for next week, but I think it's unlikely we'll manage that entirely. All together we're still on track with the project.

Production Progress Report

Today ends the first week of production and I'd say it's going alright. I'm a bit behind on animation, but way ahead on inking, so hopefully that will sort of work itself out. I'm worried I over estimated what I can accomplish. I have too many kids (1 kid) and not enough wives to take care of them (1 wife). Maybe I didn't account for not being able to work 24/7. I needed to produce 1800 frames before today, but I only managed 1543. (Still pretty good, eh?) You could argue it was a tough week for production because so many things got in the way; several meetings, a long reference shoot, and many lingering issues from preproduction that I had to deal with. But my worry is those distractions will be typical, rather than the exception.

Another worry is that each episode is running long. That's just extra footage for me to produce, because there's just no money to pay anybody else to do it, even if people are willing. Episode 1 is almost 600 frames over our budget.

Though we're not quite behind schedule yet, I'm sustaining a posture of rushed panic and I'm thinking a diet of exclusively Snickers bars and Red Bull is just the thing to make this happen.

But personally, I think it's looking pretty sweet! The animation is a blast to do! Here's a couple animated scenes in progress:

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