I just finished an incredible week at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam! Getting a chance to mingle with so many amazing artists, animators, and technical people was an absolute joy, especially since I’ve been learning from and taking inspiration from so many of them over the past few years, But on top of that, I got to present my animation work on Paradigm Shift: Chinatown in a 20 minute talk!
The response at the conference was overwhelmingly positive, and I had people approaching me to talk for the rest of the week (including incredible artists and animators whom I have tremendous respect for… WOW!)
You can watch it here:
Before I left for Amsterdam, film production has been moving forward steadily, and we crossed a major milestone: I finally got the final dialogue recordings from James and our voice cast! I’m overjoyed with the performances, and I know you’re going to love them! Dayeanne is amazing at bringing Kate’s feral energy to life, and Zach totally nails Mike’s cool demeanor. I’ve already got a new rough cut of the film together based on the final dialogue, before leaving on the trip I spent the last few weeks going back through the scenes I’ve been animating all summer to update all the dialogue shots to reflect their performances! It’s been incredibly fun!
Principle animation on the film is now about 60% complete! We’ve now completed animation and compositing for three full scenes, and I’m about 80% complete on a fourth (out of nine scenes total for the film). These have all been the big action scenes at the end of the film. Nina has completed clean-up for the first of these (the big kung fu fight!) and is moving forward onto the next in the pipeline. Alexander has started in on the sound design as well. As you can see from the chart below, we’re now solidly past the halfway point in production, now!
So to celebrate, here’s a sneak peek of the big kung fu fight scene!