A Slow Morning

So, I spent today alternately waiting for my camera to charge and shooting my animation. I've had a hard time keeping the shots consistent. This has been my third restart, so I broke down and drew registers on my desktop. If I have enough time I'll photoshop them out or at least crop the video. The registers make it so much easier to realign the camera. I was doing so well without the registers, but then I would knock into the tripod and all would be lost.

The other issue I am having, which I foresaw somewhat, is the quality of the light. As shooting takes practically all day (this morning I started at about 8:30am, and stopped when the natural light got too dim for my camera to focus easily at about 4:00pm), the amount and quality of light shifts from shot to shot. I suppose I could rectify this in Photoshop, but it would be time consuming...well, all of this is time consuming so far.

I've gotten about 16 seconds of viable video now, after a whole day of work. Oh man, animation, how I love thee.