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: