Somewhat Serious

Today is Sunday, day 3 of my animation marathon. I've done 74 frames this morning, heh, a feat! The most frames I've done in a day was 160 give or take. I've got a head-start on that number now. I'm waiting for my camera to charge. My camera is my biggest limitation right now (since it is my only tool). It can work continuously (as it has to) for about an hour and a half, and then it takes an hour to charge. This really cuts down on the time I can put into this.

The animation itself has become a tad more serious than my initial idea. I now wish I had not said so much before. I fear people are expecting something much different than what I have.

Another niggling problem is the November 26th check-in. As I've been focusing so much on getting frames completed, I've forgotten that I can't just waltz into ASH this weekend (as its a holiday) and use their computers. I have to find some way of getting my stuff into a QuickTime movie. I may have to resign myself to bringing along a folder of my images. I'm anxious to see how the animation looks, though. Right now all I can do is scroll through the images quickly in my download preview window. This gives me a sense of movement but no timing... I can't control how fast it scrolls. The scrolling moves much faster than ten frames per second.

The good news: I've already surpassed my initial goal of 45 seconds. I'm at about 47 seconds and can easily get more than that today. I want to get as much as possible done today before I have to return the tripod, and I really want to be able to focus on my media project during the week. Editing interviews is fiddly work.