It has been 2 months since my last update. Since then, I've completed the animation and soundscape of my film. Here is how I did it:

February 17-23

• BG 20 camera move
• BG 8-9 lineart
• BG 1 layout, color key, lineart, color
• rough animation: shots 6.3, 5.7
• sound effects from metadigger
• Foley recording

February 24-March 2

• rough animation: shots 5.6, 5.7, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 4.3
• background layouts, colorkeys: 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21

March 3-9

• refine animation: shots 1.3, 1.6, 3.1, 3.2
• transition from shot 5.3 to 5.4
• backgrounds layouts: 13, 14, 15, 16, 22
• backgrounds line art: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21

March 10-16

• animation: shot 1.4
• bugs rough animation: shots 4.3, 6.3, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.4, 5.7
• backgrounds line art: 15, 16, 22
• backgrounds colored: 13, 14

March 17-23​​

• backgrounds colored: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
• animation: shots 4.3, 1.5 bugs, 3.1 bugs
• lining most of Lorraine animation (like, really, all except 8 shots)

March 24-30

• bug animation: scene 1, 2, 3, 5 swarms​
• redoing BG 12, and 13-14 camera move
• updating SFX
• shading backgrounds: 6, 12, 17

March 31-April 6

• shading backgrounds: 7, 12, 13, 14
• coloring in Lorraine animations
• animating so many bugs: shots 1.2, 1.3, 1.5
• spending a full day each on animating the bugs in shots 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 5.4, and 6.3

April 7-13

• adding the dots, heads, legs/wings on the bugs in shots 3.1, 3.2, and 5.4
• finishing coloring in Lorraine
• drawing title card and credits
• redoing BG 20 camera move
• re-coloring and shading final scene
• finalizing sound effects.

In all, I spent approximately 245 hours in the WACOM lab in EV5 this semester. Sometimes I also worked from home. Once I worked in FB 325.

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.