You can check out my last news post to see how I'm keeping up with school at the moment, but now my focus is on the stop-motion animation project for History of Animation.

We got one week. (SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIIIIT!)

Due Wednesday evening, I gotta get a short stop-motion animation underway. I'm going to take an unorthodox approach to it; most people are going to be using claymation or action figures...even just moving inanimate objects to create the illusion of animation.

...But I'm not most people. What I want to do is to physically draw the character/characters onto paper, frame-by-frame, and do something sort-of Don Hertzfeldt-y, by incorporating folds, crumples, rips, and wrinkles onto the paper surface for the sake of animation.

The shitty part? I have yet to write any of the story on paper. (SHIIIIIT!!!!!!) I'm storyboarding the whole thing today, and hopefully getting my Photography buddy to help me shoot it tomorrow, the day after, and/or Sunday. I'm nervous as hell...and this shall truly be a test in how I manage my time.

I intend to compile every shot into flash, adjust the frame-rate appropriately, and sync up the sounds to play with flash, in hopes to submit it to NG when it's completed. If that deadline is that quick, you may be seeing a new submission from me sooner than you think! :D

Film at Eleven!