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Hello, it's been a little while since my last animation update! I've been so busy in the past few months that I unfortunately didn't have much time to get much work on this personal project until recently. It's why I titled this post "Update 2.5"; it's just a small update on the animation progress. I'll go into a bit more detail on why I haven't been able to work on it in the next couple sections...
Having a job is hard!
Throughout summer and continuing on from my previous update, my workplace has been getting a lot of workload that it had to call in mandatory overtime to account for the extra work. The longer work schedule was very draining, which is why I went on vacation in July! (I won't share the location I went to, but I'll say it was a beach resort.) Fortunately, it seems that the amount of workload has lately been decreasing, so I should have a bit more time to recuperate during the weekend and potentially work more on this project.
Summer Fest 2023
The festival occurred last weekend! If you haven't had time to check out some of the panels, you can find the stream VODs for days 1 and 2 here and here! A couple panels that I personally find informational and interesting to listen to are Slimygoo's The Case for Traditional Art (day 1, 4:59:20) and ricksteubens's Linework for Dummies (day 2, 1:15:06).
I also had the opportunity to work on this year's festival intro! You should check it out if you're interested; there's a mix of new and returning animators who worked hard on their individual parts. I like to thank @Kekiiro and @Slimygoo for allowing me to contribute to this intro; it was a great learning experience!
So, what about the animation?
Here's a screencap on my progress sheet for it:
I was able to shave off a bit more shots as well as give another scene a tiny bit of polish. There are a couple more scenes that I should be able to knock out relatively quickly before delving into the more intensive shots. I'm also starting to work in voice lines for some of the scenes that have spoken words in them. Unfortunately, I don't have any ex-Twitter links to the newly finished shots, so apologies for that.
That's all for now! I'll try my best to keep working on this!