I started this project about a year and a half ago, around April, 2008, in my short production film class. I originally thought that I would finish the whole story for my final project in that class and at UCSB. But at graduation in June I had only about half of it finished and realized that the story I had wanted to animate was just too long for the time that I had to finish it in for my class. I stayed up like 48 hours with no sleep on the couple days before it was due and Tess brought me four shot lattes. God, what would I do without her? Also, what would I do without Casey Fabing, the key character artist, who stayed up for at least 24 of those hours with me drawing and coloring and drawing and coloring and drawing and coloring...
But when I shot the frames that we drew and colored after staying up for two days straight, I just couldn't get myself to show them to anybody. They looked bad. The motion was choppy and horrible. Also I think I fell asleep during some of the shooting because I remember that when I first watched back what I filmed, I had shot some of the artwork upside down and turned over and stuff and I had absolutely no recollection of doing so. Heh...
Anyhoo, I set it aside for a few months after graduation but then decided that I wanted to finish the whole story for myself. SOOOoooo for the last year I have been drawing my ass off to finish this totally hand drawn, frame by frame, animated short video. It's not much, but, eh. It was kinda fun having something in the works that meant as much to me as this did.
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