Time, Frames, and Time Frames

Funny to think that one year ago our basement was subaqueous. It really seems like all of that happened ages and ages ago. Why does this year seem to be dragging along? Maybe because I've kept consistently busy, though I'd think that would make time fly by.

Busy is how The Girl and the Ghost has been keeping me. I had a period of a couple weeks where my creativity put up the "Gone fishin'" sign, but I'm back in business. More voice work is on its way from afar and I'm a big mix of nerves and excitement to finally hear it. The animation's looking great, though I'm starting to doubt I'll have it ready by the Los Angeles Animation Festival. I'm not going to sacrifice the quality of it just to submit it to one festival, I'm still going to try my best though, we'll see.

This week has been fairly interesting, as I've done most of my animating while under the influence of Benadryl, thanks to an annoying allergy uprising. It gets the job done wonderfully, but the drowsy factor can be a tricky thing. I'm surprised how well I've managed to work through it, it's like the drowsiness doubles as an automatic-animation-mode and before I know it, hours (and a depressingly low number of frames) have passed.

I passed the 300 hour mark today.

Back to work. Full steam ahead. Kick the tires and light the fires. Go Team Venture!

Animation and Amigos

I've been putting my nose to the grindstone and getting some great stuff done on the animated films this week.

Larry sent over a ton of dialogue for The Greatest Fan Film Ever and it sounds incredible. I've been cranking out designs and working on animation, I love what I've got so far. This thing's going to be awesome.

When I'm not working on that, I've been plugging away at The Girl and the Ghost. I lost some steam on the project for a little while there, but it's recently been revitalized in a big way. While going through some unread MySpace messages, I saw one about the Los Angeles Animation Festival. I read on to find out that their theme this year is "Ghost Story." Talk about a happy coincidence, eh? That's added some major fuel to the fire. The entry deadline is September 3rd, so now I have a date to shoot for, which helps.

To add some tasty whipped cream to this delicious sundae, it's looking as though the cast of voices is finally rounded out. I'll make an announcement here as soon as things are a little more official. For now I'll just say the cast consists of friends, old, new, and in between and I'm ecstatic about this lineup.

Speaking of friends, I just heard Chantal Kreviazuk is performing on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this Monday night. Tune in and check it out!