Approaching picture lock

This past week, I've been adding more keyframes throughout the film, particularly the first 2 scenes. I'm having difficulty with the acting, and I was trying to avoid using video references. Often, with drawing and with animating, I get lost in my references and my work loses some character, my animation becomes less elastic, and it starts to look rotoscoped, in a bad way.

I presented my progress on Thursday (not realizing that the version I showed in class actually didn't include a lot of the keyframing I did this week, I messed up my files due to a lack of sleep, sorry) and got some more feedback from Jean and the class.

• Shot 2.2: don't have Lorraine looking wistfully out the window, just animate the flowers drooping a bit after she goes inside​, and have some dead flowers fall off
• Film myself acting for Lorraine closeups (face acting)
• Hold shot 2.1 empty before Lorraine runs in, and have her skid the corner
• In the first shot, play up how nice and fancy the place is where she's having tea time with her friend before the bugs come out, like maybe widen the shot and pan a bit to show the beautiful space they're in. this will make it more mortifying when she vomits bugs
• Shot 1.3: let Lorraine still be holding her cup for continuity and so that when she opens her mouth a second time it's to talk/laugh it off/try to sip again.

That's it for current next steps! I'm making so many little changes it's hard to keep track of them. Picture Lock is next week and I'll have to spend lots of time keyframing to make it. The flow is getting easier now and it takes less time and effort to make new drawings every week. When I work out now, I think of my movements in keyframes.