So I just finished off animating sequence 18 which brings me just past the halfway mark of the film %52 to be exact.... It took 6 months to finish the first half... there was a 3 week break in there too... and I'm going to finish it in 6 more months so animation will be complete October 1st 2010... I just did some calculations and I did 836 shots in the first 6 months and I'm scheduled to do 796 in the next 6 months... Things I've learned through the first half of the film... + Shots with multiple characters interacting with each other take the longest to animate.... 2 isn't so bad... when you get 5-7 it gets kinda crazy... + I animate everything in passes.... first animate the camera then the first character... first I block out the hips, then the neck, then the head, then the arms and legs... then the fingers... then the face... when that character is done I sometimes render an opengl preview if the viewport cant play it back smooth at 24fps then I move on to t
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