production na!!!
it's started!
well, sort of. the trainee batch i'm in is currently helping the regular animators with animating REAL work. stuff that's going to come out on TV in japan! of course, we're only allowed to do minor stuff (actually, that's probably about all we can do right now). the workload is heavy, so they really had to have us animate some things. we still have running animation exercises to do, i believe, but that's on hold right now. and we don't mind working on the actual thing, since it means 1) we're doing what we're meant to do, and 2) extra moolah!
my experience today was funny. after several scenes of simple in-betweening work (actually just a lot of clean-up and some minor eye-blinking and lipsynching), i was given a folder that had just two key frames. a character has to antic (anticipation, i think; whenever someone has to move in some dramatic way, there's always this anticipation of movement where he/she has to pull back...imagine your legs bending before you leap. something like that). just two key frames! should be easy...until i saw how many frames of in-between work i had to do. EIGHT.
ok, so it's still not bad, right? now, imagine trying to do clean-up--tracing over the rough drawings and making the lines as neat and tremble-free as possible--while your 'batchmates' are cracking crass jokes left and right. believe me, i had to erase nearly just as much as i had to draw. plus, every so often someone wants to play a practical joke and will suddenly switch off your lightbox. WHILE you're doing clean-up.
INSANE!!!
but it's all good. i'm still loving everything, and i'm really, REALLY glad for this job. ^__^ the proverbial winds of change are blowing, and i'm hoping to get caught up in the ride. ;]
coming up next: pictures taken while in the state of limbo. in other words, pics of me and some officemates habang naka-tunganga dahil nababaliw na sa trabaho. >;]
well, sort of. the trainee batch i'm in is currently helping the regular animators with animating REAL work. stuff that's going to come out on TV in japan! of course, we're only allowed to do minor stuff (actually, that's probably about all we can do right now). the workload is heavy, so they really had to have us animate some things. we still have running animation exercises to do, i believe, but that's on hold right now. and we don't mind working on the actual thing, since it means 1) we're doing what we're meant to do, and 2) extra moolah!
my experience today was funny. after several scenes of simple in-betweening work (actually just a lot of clean-up and some minor eye-blinking and lipsynching), i was given a folder that had just two key frames. a character has to antic (anticipation, i think; whenever someone has to move in some dramatic way, there's always this anticipation of movement where he/she has to pull back...imagine your legs bending before you leap. something like that). just two key frames! should be easy...until i saw how many frames of in-between work i had to do. EIGHT.
ok, so it's still not bad, right? now, imagine trying to do clean-up--tracing over the rough drawings and making the lines as neat and tremble-free as possible--while your 'batchmates' are cracking crass jokes left and right. believe me, i had to erase nearly just as much as i had to draw. plus, every so often someone wants to play a practical joke and will suddenly switch off your lightbox. WHILE you're doing clean-up.
INSANE!!!
but it's all good. i'm still loving everything, and i'm really, REALLY glad for this job. ^__^ the proverbial winds of change are blowing, and i'm hoping to get caught up in the ride. ;]
coming up next: pictures taken while in the state of limbo. in other words, pics of me and some officemates habang naka-tunganga dahil nababaliw na sa trabaho. >;]
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