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"The Adventures of Al Ergen"
I am proud to present this film to you all. I hope you find as much joy in watching it as I did making it. Closed Captions provided below:

Katie Shields
Nov 23, 2020
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The "Day Before Submission Struggles" are Real
To start, my composer kept pushing back the time that he would deliver the final score to me all the way until Sunday night (when my film...

Katie Shields
Nov 23, 2020
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Some Renders : )
So being that my film is set in a cave and that I wanted it to be ominous and have the audience only know what the character knows....its...

Katie Shields
Nov 10, 2020
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Operation: Picture Lock? Check!
On this day in history, Katie has achieved picture lock so that composing may commence. (My composer and I have met and he has since...

Katie Shields
Nov 5, 2020
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Current Film State
I have worked with my composer on some ideas for music and I will have picture lock for him by Thursday this week (so this is very much...

Katie Shields
Nov 3, 2020
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Minor Updates
A new torch!! Much wow! I thought this was funny and gross to look at while I was animating, so you can experience it, too.

Katie Shields
Nov 3, 2020
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Mission: Animation (Part 4)
New Animation: - I'm going to play around with different ways to add an explosion of water in Maya or After Effects. Updated Animation: -...

Katie Shields
Oct 22, 2020
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Mission: Animation (Part 3)
Watching the first two animations back, they seem to be really slow and not that exaggerated, so I will fix that. ^ I took some...

Katie Shields
Oct 20, 2020
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Updated Animatic...with animation ooooooo
The transitions look a little wonky because I haven't animated the second half of them, but yeah here's an updated animatic :D

Katie Shields
Oct 13, 2020
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Mission: Animation (Part 2)
I think I need to put more movement in the hips and really focus on impacts to the ground like when the feet land or he throws himself...

Katie Shields
Oct 8, 2020
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Mission: Animation
Here are the first few shots that I've started animating.

Katie Shields
Sep 29, 2020
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3D Animatic? Well, alright.
I really wanted to see what the colors would like, so even though it took me a bit of time to do rendered images, I like how it looks....

Katie Shields
Sep 27, 2020
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sOuNd
I wanted to show you guys what I am envisioning for sound in my film, all of this here is scratch sound and I will be going to the...

Katie Shields
Sep 21, 2020
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Tedious Textures
Lots and lots of rock makes this feel like a longer process than it is. I know the environments seem really dull in color right now. but...

Katie Shields
Sep 20, 2020
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Mission: Environments
I think it is pretty clear that modeling isn't exactly my favorite, but I've gotten through most of the modeling I had to do for the film...

Katie Shields
Sep 19, 2020
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Shotlisttttttt
I've been eager to start this because it means animation is close!! (I haven't been able to start it because I was changing camera angles...

Katie Shields
Sep 14, 2020
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Revisions for Ray
So, I modeled a shirt to put on Ray, but when I skinned it, I guess he didn't like that. So, after playing with the rig some more, I...

Katie Shields
Sep 12, 2020
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He's Alive!!
Here are some animation tests for my rigged glob. The texture is just a standard surface as a filler for now. I actually have two...

Katie Shields
Sep 12, 2020
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Things Are Happening...
Here is my adjusted animatic. I added some beats and moved a couple of camera angles so it didn't seem so flat and distant as per the...

Katie Shields
Sep 11, 2020
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Animatic? Yes please!
This is my first pass for an animatic. I tried using a new program and I liked it at first, but it was supposed to make turning my boards...

Katie Shields
Sep 8, 2020
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