Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

Any of you who are interested in my continuing adventures with Macromedia Flash should know that I AM continuing work on the cartoon I mentioned in an earlier post. The entire story would span multiple episodes, but what I've got nearly complete now is the animatic for the first episode.

If you aren't hip to the lingo, an animatic is essentially the step that comes between a storyboard and the finished project. Essentially, the drawings are simple and the animation is limited. It's basically intended to just establish the flow and the timing of the piece. Knowing that this particular shot needs to be 47 frames long in order to fit with the sound, for example. In fact, the sound itself is what is known as "scratch sound", meaning that it is recited pretty much just to get the timing and the dialogue settled, and gets rerecorded for the finished project.

I'm not planning to post the animatic here on the website, but I will put the finished piece up. (Also, I suppose if anyone really begged me to, I could send them the animatic.)

Anyway, this post is basically just to let everyone know that I am working on it. I haven't just let it drop. It's just that it takes a long time. Not nearly as long as it would take to draw everything by hand of course, (especially since I can't really draw), but still time-consuming.

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