Because I'm Crazy...

    I have given this a lot of thought, but with quite a few jobs coming up and the fact that I've been lacking in the animation department for my reel/portfolio for the past 3 years, I've come to the decision to put Shift on a semi-hiatus.
    "Semi" because I will still be working on it, but I am going to focus my attention more on getting animation exercises and a "mini" short film done by November so I can dust off my very outdated reel. I will continue to work on Shift, but at a pace I can work at where I continue to enjoy it while building up my animation skills to where I'd like them to be. I really want this to be something really great, so I'm willing to work on it for as long as it needs. Plus, it'll give me plenty of time to get the programs and resources I really want to make this happen. I will continue working on thumbs, storyboards and backgrounds though behind the scenes and keep updating on where I'm at. For right now though, I have a simple, fun idea in mind for a mini film that I'd like to have done by November just to get my animation skills working and improving again

       

    These two girls will be the two main characters of a "mini" film I'm starting to plan out. I am aiming to have boards done by the beginning of March. I won't give away too much just yet because, for one thing, I am still planning out the fine details of the story, and for another, you'll have to wait and see with more posts!

 

Deleted Storyboards

    I apologize for the schedule being so inconsistent. I'm trying to figure out the best day to pick to post something/have a due date for progress every other week. Right now my work schedule's been so whacky and I'm in the process of trying to secure work at a studio again so that is only adding to my inconsistency right now. I'm thinking of just picking Saturday or Sunday as a post day only because I know I'll eventually be booked up all week and will have more free time on weekends.

    But I digress...

    While I was going through my production folder and just sorting things out, I came across a scene I had thumbnailed this past summer that had long since been excluded from the film so far. However, I still thought it was a cute scene and wanted to share it anyway:

    I had talked about this scene in one of my previous posts and why it was taken out. My intention was the show Oliver's human side and how while he can hunt, he also lives in a cabin and relies on human resources as much as he tries to live as a wild, solitary animal. However, because his hunting skills aren't up to par, he is hardly able to catch his food and being a kid living alone in the wilderness, I can't imagine he'd have any money to pay for much human food. To add insult to injury, a little mouse comes along and robs him of both sources of food basically. 

    The reason I ended up scrapping this scene was it added unnecessary time and it made the point of who he was kind of redundant. I've already established he's not good at hunting and dealing with confrontation in the beginning and that he's basically alone. Still, I was pretty happy with how it was all staged out anyway and it's good to kind of look back on it from time to time because while it's small, it is a quaint little home. Also, was really proud of those hands...hands are never my strong point. His cabin still does show up later in the story, in fact, I am using the same establishing shot later (*cough* Act III), however, I don't think I'll need to show the inside of it...at least not for this film.