The Good News: The Geniuses at Apple have fixed my display on the Macbook Pro.
The Bad News: In updating the graphics card, the entire computer was wiped clean.
The Silver Lining: I backed up my entire film on my Time Capsule last Sunday night.
The pain in the arse: Reinstalling everything.
I'm leaning toward the image above as the final choice for Newsom's color scheme. As you'll notice in the others below he is wearing a solid color shirt that has no white. That's for a specific reason, as his Doll wears the same colors too, and that plays a big part in the ending.
Obviously, if Newsom ends up wearing blue, I can't have Korchin wearing blue as well. That's sort of like having two characters in a movie called William and Bill.
I'm having a blast coloring. ToonBoom has this great feature I just discovered called Auto Gap Closing. You can turn on three options while coloring: Close Small Gap, Close Medium Gap and Close Large Gap. So you don't have to zoom into pieces of your drawing that might have openings. Which is a huge time saver. So thank you, Toon Boom for making the post-prod process easier,,,(insert smiley, thumbs up approval here).
"Oh, crap" from matt lee on Vimeo.
I envisioned it being a surprise/twist but in essence, it's the engine that the story runs on. I guess you never really know how these things work out until you see it put together. In this case---I'm putting together the hot rod while racing it.
I didn't make an animatic for this film. I made one for my last, "Road Rage," and that process didn't turn out too well (the third act of the story completely changed from what was in the animatic). Generally I make animatics and stick to 'em for jobs, but for my own films I feel it's a detriment to the process (ask my thesis advisor how nuts I drove her and vice versa). I get bored easily, so looking at the animatic day after day after day would make me second-guess myself....if there's one thing that people have commented on about the short list of films I've made, it's that they have a spontaneous energy to them. I'm a huge improv junkie, and I love watching shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade. I took Improv 101 there too, so that's probably where my sensibility comes from.
That being said, I'm going to edit together the last half of my film later this evening and see what the damage is. :)
