Week 07 Update!

 



Week Seven finally wraps up! There's not a ton to report on this week that hasn't been covered in a previous week. We got some more concept work done, one for props and some color variations for a character. More boards have been cleaned up and ready to add to the animatic. The more we focus on working the better the project gets!


Jeff's puppet has been started - Most of Chester is done, and Gibbs is being wrapped up. Here's a video of Jeff's puppet in action so far:



We are looking forward to doing some test animations with these puppets very soon!

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