Let's Start at the Very Beginning

Lets just forget everything from before.

Forget the previous posts.

Forget the missed posts. The dozens of missed posts.

Forget the thesis project.

Just forget it all.

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Over the summer break I thought long and hard about thesis. After my review I was very much convinced that the story that I wanted was not capable of being told within 4 minutes.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the story and want to do it eventually - but with a 4 minute constraint it just can’t happen the way I want it.

So, 2 weeks before the fall semester began, I officially changed my thesis.

This new thesis is about my brother’s dog Kramer whom we had originally raised for the Seeing Eye to be a guide dog. However, he just wants to have fun and explore everything so ended up failing.

The story is being told from his perspective so the viewer has to learn over time what Kramer is going through.

Already a whole semester has past as well as a thesis presentation.

Some things are done line character designs, backgrounds, and about over 20 seconds of animation.

That being said, there is a lot that has to change.

The color pallet is too pastel.

The story’s passing is a bit odd.

There needs to be more tension/foreboding towards the end.

Over the thesis meeting was good - much clearer than with the last story.

Doesn’t mean everything is all hunky-dory though.

There is a lot of animation to get done, though I’m happy to say I am comfortable the the amount of assets I have presently and feel it should be possible to reach my self-imposed March deadline.

Want to see some designs? Huh? Do yeah?

Main dog as he grows up

Main boy character

Other dog designs

Right…now trust me when I say there is other stuff. Lots of other stuff. Its just, well, everything is saved as .tiff and Blogger doesn’t like that too much. Or the exports are in a presentation. Plus anything animated it kind of, well, in pieces. A bit here, a bit there, very few shots are 'fully' animated at the moment.

Yeah, okay, that shouldn’t be an excuse, but I’m seriously going to try really hard to be regular with these posts, so you will see more as goes on.

Promise.

…I hope.