Shortest of the Smallest

This is a very smol update; I felt that I have not done in a while, and they are very important to me. Blog Updates help me keep myself accountable and reflect on my project's status and direction. So, here are some new things:

I've made little progress on my audio! I've learned to add grooves to Ableton tracks, and it makes the song flow so much more organic... Let me know if you cannot tell a difference- I should probably change it up some more then.

[to be honest, I'm not sure if I will include this in the final project, but it is very fun to work on]

I've completely finished all of the moving aspects of my 1st animation and everything else for the 1st shot. The last step is to add lighting, which will be kind of troublesome to do because I'll have to edit a ton of shots for this... So far, the whole thing took me roughly 5 hours.

An animated gif of a person (short wavy orange hair, blue crop top and jean shorts is their outfit) driving a car (no car pictured, only the car keys and driving wheel), and then reaching with one of their arms towards and below the camera. The motion is supposed to indicate them turning the phone notifications off.

That's all! Next, I aim to fully develop the other two scenes, and then put it all together in Blender Weeks 9 and 10. This will include camera motion, scene transition, audio, and visual touch-ups. Very excited! Below are very rough sketches for the other 2 scenes.

A pencil sketch of a side view of an ambulance car driving east in the night with a mountainous landscape and a crescent in the background

A pencil sketch of a car crash, with the car laying sideways and fire coming out of the back window. One of the wheels is torn off, laying next to the car, and the car itself is in the middle of two lanes.

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Image Introspection

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It's Alive!!!

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