General update/progress report: 28/02/2012

'Ello everyone, we pretty much all know where we are right now but here's another one of my super-wordy recaps just to act as a record!

28/02/2012

• Character colour palettes finalised, Jae completed scarecrow's model sheet — Sam to colour and add expressions.
• Sam to work through animatic/storyboard and create reference list of poses for puppets to be created and work out, where possible, which pieces/poses can be re-used.
• Jae to add sound effects (crashes, bangs, crows etc) to rough animatics for Monday.
• Filming reference footage Wednesday & Thursday!
• Sam and Jae to meet up on Friday afternoon with collected reference footage to start rough puppet creation. We'll start some rough animation tests next week.
• Scene allocation to be discussed next week.
• Jazzy and Alex to continue refining animatic, for completion by Friday.

Animatic feedback:

• Extend hang glider chase scene (mostly done)
• Little confusing — need to show crow actually pecking the bug off the scarecrow's hat.
• Ending confusing? Jae suggested altering the ending to show crow actually pecking bugs off the crops and flying back to the scarecrow. The ending may make a little more sense once we show the crow retrieving the bug from the scarecrow's hat. Make current alterations, then review and alter ending if necessary.

Great job so far guys, we're progressing nicely. Still have a few things to iron out of course but hopefully we're well on track. Thanks again for being so engaged — keep it up!!

Remember, tomorrow is "Leap Day" — the 29th of February — so I want to see you all dropping and proposing to me...

Alex