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  Layouts have been lined this week as we get ready to put together our latest animatic! We've brought on Layout Artist Daisy Julca to help us with our coloring process for layouts so that we can move onwards to other things so our core team can focus.  We also have Cora Keene as our motion graphics designer to help with a lot of our news-station graphics! Cora has been creating fantastic graphic designs for our project so far, and we are so incredibly lucky to have Cora on our team! Alongside the help we've been getting, our core team has been focused on cleaning up the puppets and dropping them into scenes. This is to help us get ready to put our next animatic cut together! We've also started a hand-drawn section as well, prepping to get roughs of those done ASAP! All in all, an exciting week! We can't wait to get further along in the process and start to see it all come together!

 Puppets, puppets, puppets! This week was filled to the brim with work on the puppets! Hand packs and mouth packs for the puppets have been completed, so most puppets are completely done and ready to be animated with! Above is some test animation footage of Jeff by Andrew, who has played with puppet test animations for the better part of the week. What comes next are layouts and the beginnings of animation. We're going to start getting into the nitty-gritty parts of the animation, as well as working on the hand-drawn segments to get them out of the way early! Be excited; we're setting sail shortly!

Here's a short update on what we did over the past week! Puppets are finished and being tweaked by our riggers. Mouth packs for characters are mostly completed, with one currently in progress, and hand packs are being created and finished! We've got a little bit to go before we're fully ready to begin the animation, but above is a video testing out the mouth pack for Jeff. Once all the packs are completed, we'll move onto more fleshed-out test animations.

  It's week 1 of the new school quarter and week 11 of production! Over the break, more work has been done on the puppets for our characters. This week, to get back into the swing of things, we begin working together on the hand and mouth packs for the characters. Above is a mouth test for the character Chester! Next week, our goal is to wrap up work on all the puppets and get as many hand and mouth packs finished as possible! We have two people working on hand and mouth packs as we move forward, so it should go by fairly quickly. Look forward to seeing these puppets in movement come week 3 of the quarter!

        Well, this is it! After wrapping up all we could from the previous weeks, we completed our animatic and other deliverables! Now we just wait for feedback on our short. It's very exciting and everyone had a blast working on the short. We are hopeful that it'll continue production into the winter quarter! We're tying up loose ends as we wait for the news, hopefully next week will bring us good news for the winter!

    Preproduction is steadily wrapping up as we gather our work together for our big presentation! Board clean ups are being finished as we speak and the animatic just needs a few more tiny tweaks before it's ready to send out. There were a few set backs this week, but all in all our team feels prepared to tackle the next challenge! We are very excited to see what becomes of our project, and as we wrap up these next few tiny threads, we look forward to seeing what the results of week 9 will be!

  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!