Sober.

So, lately I've been working on my sketchbook, figuring out key poses and stuff to really make the character believable.

Also, I've been storyboarding to music for the opening bit of the film, trying to match actions to the beat and that. Looks alright. Needs a bit of tweaking here and there before I draw up the final full colour one, but I'm pretty pleased with what I've got so far seeing as I've thought it through in my head A LOT since summer. The more difficult bit is going to be the bit in the hell hospital, because I've yet to design the set properly. I've got a test model at home which I can post when I've got the internet, but I don't really like it. I want to base it on the optical illusions of M.C.Escher, and I've been watching videos on Youtube of people's 3D models they've made of Ascending/Descending and Relativity, to see how they have created the illusions in 3D space. It's pretty clever actually, but it'll take some serious practice if I want to make my own. Still, I really think the neverending stairs would make for some pretty trippy viewing, and same for all the upside-down stairs and sideways doors and stuff. So I think I'll try and make something like that separately, see if I can do it ok, then plan out the layout including them (hopefully).

And then I'll be able to storyboard it.

In other news, my hard drive is still utterly broken so my work is still utterly lost. Which means the showreel is on hold. Hopefully the tutors have my work on disk from when I handed it in for deadlines. Otherwise I do have some stuff online which I can download, though it's already been compressed so sticking it back through AE would lower the quality even more, what with that effectively being the third compression :/

I need to start my problem blog! I'll do that now.