Its been a while . . .

Friday 22nd may was my last post. Its been far too long, however I have good reasons as to why I haven't been updating as regualry as I had beeen. Firstly ROA happened. This was a massive event in which I had to produce a showreel, business cards, dvd's and prints to display on my stand. Unfortunately bare bear had to be put on hold for a week or so in order to get all this sorted and promote myself successfully at the show. As well as this I helped Mr Grigs in setting up the room, badgering people to put work up, and preparing posters and name tags for our event. All in all it was a great day and everyone who helped did a great job. Made a couple of good contacts on the day and was complimented on my work by many visitors which is always good to hear!

Not only did we have ROA, but the following week we were all bogged down with a contextual studies essay and presentation. Again this took up the best part of a week to write, prepare and present. Not to mention a small PPD essay I had to complete amongst the madness of ROA.

So all of that leads me up to now, 3 weeks since my last post. To be honest theres not much to update as work only commenced again yesterday! It is the final week of the project now and we have been in contact with Paul to discuss a final meeting. We have sent him concept art and clips from our different scenes to which we have had great feedback. He loves the work and has arranged for us to meet up next Monday when the dvd will be complete.

So where are we all at? Well for my scene, animation is still priority. I am nearly finished now, all that is left is for BB to skip off down the forest path - a perfect ending.

Phils is still p****** about with his arctic scene, and now has the bear in a postion ready to be blown back into the cupboard. I think he SHOULD be done by wednesday - latest!

Alec has suffered lately from some serious roatation problems and an unfortunate save overide (my mistake). The bear is still at the cupboard doors, however Mr Smith has assured us he will not let us down in the next couple of days. He stayed late tonight beginning the walkcycle over to the bamboo.

Dave has not been in lately due to his contextual essay taking over, however today he returned to work on BB. Unfortunately his scene is probably the furthest from completion because he had to rig the bear and finish the dump. Today we considered turing the dump scene into a short book intro as we feel the animation simply will not be done in time, to a high standard. He has a mammoth 30 seconds worth of animation still to do - in 2 days! I hope dave begins the book idea tommorow, otherwise it will be a real shame to see his dump scene fail in the last week.

With 3 days left we are really really tight for time now! We still have to animate, render, composite, edit, add audio, titles, burn, and make a case for!
Cmon guys - we can do it!!!!!!!!!!