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Week 06 Update!

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  Week 06 of Undersea News Preproduction is finished! Board revisions continue going strong as the animatic undergoes more changes as acting beats are finalized and sections get cleaned up. Puppets have been started for Jeff, Gibbs, and Chester. Jeff and Gibbs are still having their puppets rigged, while Chester is getting a fresh dose of drawing substitutions added onto his current rig! Facial expressions are being added onto Chester's rig as we speak. Chester is almost completed, we are just waiting on the finalized colors to be imported so he's no longer just a white blobby boy! We have been working hard on getting the colors for our characters finalized all week and most characters are finished! There's only two characters giving us trouble as far as colors go, but they're incredibly close to being completed regardless! Everything is starting to wrap up from here. The animatic will take priority moving forward so we complete it to be the best quality it can be!

Week 05 Update!

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  Undersea News wraps up it’s fifth week of development with more puppets and board revisions! The rig created for our character Chester is close to complete. The front, side, and 3/4th views are all rigged, and reformers have been added to the head of Chester. The puppet for Gibbs has also been started, but has yet to be fully rigged to show an animation of sorts. Board revisions continue as we also meet up with voice actors to get a voice pass to use for the next version of the animatic which will be completed by the end of this week (hopefully!). With the rigs started we inch closer to being ready to start putting together a test animation of our characters. Exciting!

Week 04 Update!

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    This week was a busy week for characters! Our character turn arounds have been completed and we are making progress with expressions and poses. We've even got progress on puppets! Here's Chester's WIP: We've also officially casted our voice actors! We are very excited to work with the talented cast of people that have been selected to work on our film. Last but not least, we've started on prop design for the film: Since we are such a small crew, everyone has at least two props that they are to be designing. Since character design is being wrapped up, we hope more people can focus on prop design. It'll also give our puppetors suitable time to work on their rigs!

Week 03 Update!

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      We are really getting into the thick of things! Characters are mostly finalized with a few tweaks here and there for future updates. Gibbs and Luis have 5 point turn arounds now as well! Colors on characters are not final as of yet, but they give the general idea of what to expect for the final puppets once they are made. The board revisions have started as well! The first segment of the short has been revised with the next part under way, and with the revisions we have as of now we have started the process of creating our animatic! The first pass will be rough as one might expect, but it's exciting to get to see these character start coming to life with sound! We also managed to call back a few actors and have them read through. We are fairly certain we know which actors will play which characters at this point and we're waiting for confirmation on them. This week we hope we can start passing on turnarounds to start getting them puppeted, so we are very excited for that!