day 12 - project continued

Thursday was just the continuation of our animation process. I, of course, was the first person in the classroom per usual, so I just waited for Knox to arrive first and then we waited for Natalie to arrive later. Once all three of us were together, we immediately went to work on continuing the animation process that we left the day before. I acted as camera operator the whole period, and took the remaining shots of Knox’s 200 frames. After I had shot all of Knox’s frames, it was time for Natalie to animate her 200 frames, by this time Knox had to leave early for work. We also had to change out cameras since we had to change the lens and focus of the first camera. So it was just me and Natalie all by ourselves to finish the project. As we went along, we decided to just make stuff up in order to fill in the gaps between sequences and to make up for all 200 frames to be shot. Also worth mentioning is the fact that as I was shooting the pictures, the battery on our new camera was on one bar, and blinking red. At this point, we were both nervous that the camera would soon die on us and delete everything that we all worked on, so we just tried as best we could to go ahead and animate as much as we possibly could before the camera shut off. Thankfully in the end we finished just in time for us to complete the project, turn off the camera, clean up our work station, and then make plans to meet up on Sunday in the edit lab to edit the project with a soundscape.