Update from Sascha...

Well...its been a while since i posted...and that would be cause of the charlie rig...i have never ever rigged anythign in my life. In hindsight...with next too no experience in this department, it was a HEUGE job to take on with such little time for us to complete the film.

To not hinder the production, i gave a basic basic rig to the group to start blockin the animation, quite a few weeks ago now, but there was an issue with teh referencing of the files, that meant animation wasn't getting copied across between rigs...so the blocking stopped until i finished the rig.

Even though I know its taken me a while, i have learnt so much and actually rather enjoyed this process. Considering my limited experience I am extremly happy with the outcome. There are still things that could be tweaked like more blends and refinement of some existing ones, figuring out how to get teh orthographic camera to follow just the face of teh character so as not to hinder animation. But all in all she does the job. I shall post a test animation of the controls later.

On the back of finishing the rig I have now been blocking of the entire film over the last week. The first couple of scenes i completed by last week end were handed over to Damien to start animating so we have something to show on Thursday for the RUFF CUT meeting...but IM not sso sure we will have 50% completed.

Things in the process of getting done:-

Texturing of assets - Caryn
Charlie texture - Damien
Test render of environment - Damien?
blocking and animating - sascha

Things to do still:-

animate
light environment
animate

We have some scratch sound from our musician Andrew Mclellan. A suggestiong from him though is that he is finding that the music needs more room to breathe. WE were tryign to keep the story as short as possible due to time constraints for animating, but with this feedback along with anthony Lucas, Kevin Geiger and randoms, I have lengthened most of the scenes out. This will hopefully also help with the biggest issue at this stage, that people are being able to follow or understand the story...