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Progress Update: Deep Expansion

Working from home is never a good idea, so I just don't work when I'm home. The Reading Period was extremely delicious, but the improvements from last week are rather conceptual; my flow has been disturbed by a food poisoning, too, and only now am I getting back into the pace of weeks prior. Here's what I've got so far:

caption: an animated character posed as driving a vehicle, positioned in a side view, facing right. They have short pastel orane hair, are wearing jean shorts, a triangle earring, and a crop top. 

A full animated chacater is done! I might be making small edits to this in terms of timing and additional motion on clothing/feet, but that would come much later. I am trying to prioritize narrative of technical aspects, and that's still a struggle... There is a long-standing habit of doing work to become more skilled and throwing away any meaningful story in the process. Unlearning is hard, duh.

With this initial stage done, I now need to put the whole thing into Blender- I have separate layers for the car and background. Something to be added later is lights and shadows on both the character and the props (maybe, I think it already looks good). 

As I was working on this, I felt that the message didn't fully read with me after I've decided to change the camera angle (it's just difficult from a technical standpoint- the fish eye perspective and animating hands is not something I'm very proficient with). The narrative was restructured:

this animation will appear as one of last 
in a series of scenes related
 to "saving a life" in more direct ways. 
the purpose is to showcase that
driving while texting can take someone's life away...

I am thinking, however, that it would fir better with the narrative if the person indeed
got distracted by the phone, and someone would tap on their shoulder
to keep their eyes on the road. 
this is something to revisit later, once other scenes are done. 

I am also working on a short soundtrack for this specific animation, just for fun. I hope to include it, but with the addition of new scenes, it might make sense to go in a whole new direction, creating a full soundscape and limiting the soundtrack to perhaps 5-10 seconds total (animation has to be exactly 30 seconds). Here's what I have so far:



That's it for now! I'll post a separate update on the Convocation talk, which was so awesome!



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