This is my basic sound effect pass. It's not well mixed at all, but I just put it together to show Emmeline all the sound effects I had in mind. I don't know how good any of this will sound with music included, but I figure that the music she's composing is the most important sonic element of the film and that if any sound effects or ambience get in its way, they can go.

I already got some feedback on this sound effect pass. And I've also already added a lot to the animation since this export. Anyway, here are the changes to be made from here:

Backgrounds Update
In between rough animation, I've been working on backgrounds as well. There are two camera moves in the whole 2 minutes, and I've animated both in separate TvPaint projects.
​I've also started adding nicer linework and basic color (no shading yet) to backgrounds (cafe and bathroom). Just to work on something easier than animating and get a feeling of reward.

With picture lock due at the end of this week, I've been roughly animating/extensively keyframing across the entire film, and re-timing shots. I put in some of the changes recommended to me last week:

• "zoomed out" the first shot and panned it a bit to show the background a bit better
  
• re-timed the run in and run out of the house; and I especially worked on the shot in which Lorraine's first ladybug flies out her mouth.
• animated the plants growing tall in the last shot
• added a car driving by in the distance when Lorraine is lying in the grass
• keyframed Lorraine's epiphany so that she goes :o

That's it!!! Just working on timing.

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.