Animation is proceeding at a rate of approximately 30 seconds per day on school days, and 7 seconds per day on non-school days.  There is still some building that needs to be done; two buildings aren't complete.  Hopefully I can keep it ahead of the animation.  I still need a voice for the priest, so if you have an adult sounding voice & wish to help, please LMK.

Animation is 23% complete.  I'm beginning to add laugh tracks and sound effects to the animation.  When this number reaches 100%, a bit of post-production work will be done and the film will be ready.  This will be the first episode exclusive to Vimeo, and the first to debut in its entirety.  I just completed a very difficult 23-second animation.  One thing's for certain: Johnny Strange is very acrobatic.

Yeah, I know, Mickey.  I just left the YouTube videos up.  The channel has a lot of videos that aren't on Vimeo (yet).  And it doesn't actully matter if I delete them, since Google keeps everything on their own servers forever because they think they own all posted content.

Animation is now 25% complete.  adding the laugh track is coming along fine, almost to pace with the animation.  Music track is coming along fine.  I wrote three original songs that are being used as background music.  One was written specifically for the Hitler scene.  The other two songs are just short clips from some music my band's been working on, which we inserted for some very short background music in commercials when Brent's watching TV.  They seem to watch TV in every episode.  Episode 4 will have a lot to do with television.  But I'll stay focused on episode 3 for now.  (In ep 5 no one watches TV).  Okay, really now back to ep 3.  There will be one more original song, as Johnny Strange (Brandon Fields) always sings in every episode.  After trying to find a melody for the lyrics I wrote long ago, I'm finally coming up with something.  Mary Charles (Brick 7) will also sing in a role other than Angela's.  I'll have to compose that next and send the audio file off to her.  I haven't begun on sound FX yet.  I think this will have more SFX than eps 1 and 2.  One other thing: I think there are more frames of animation in the first segment of episode 3 (9 minutes) than there are in eps 1 and 2 combined, each with between 4000 and 5000 frames.  So far, everything animated, except the WWII scene, occurs in the Schneider living room, but the second half of the episodes will have various other scenes, including St. Hilarius Church, a general store, a supermarket, and a police station.  It will break up all the yellow of the living room, where so much of the story development takes place.  Well, I wish the pace was faster, but it's coming along steadily.  The next animation session all revolves around one character and should have me good for about 45 seconds of story.

Script: 100%
Voice: 96%
Animation 25%
Post-Production: 16%

You raise a good point.

Animation is 40% complete!  The first of 4 segments is the longest, about 9 minutes.  The other 3 are estimated to be about 5 minutes each, judging by the script.  I've done a walk segment, based on the Repelling Spider method, with a slight modification to make it smoother, and it's the best walk cycle I've animated to date.  The church scene is next, followed by a general store scene.  Max Butcher is in the role of the priest, who is a passing character but I hope to give a larger role in the future.  Thanks, Max!

Check out the preview of episode 3 on Vimeo, with a scene featuring Angie, Brent and Johnny Strange:

http://vimeo.com/84969923

Animation is 46% complete.
I'm filming the general store scene next.  y memory of the script was out of order.  I forgot that this and another store scene precede the church scene.

Here is the full cast list for episode 3.  Please let me know if there are any errors.
Note that I got some handles mixed up and don't know who to properly credit!  Help me!

PRIMARY CAST:

Brent Schneider:     Michael Tourette (HoldingOurOwn)
Angela Schneider:     Mary Charles     (Brick7)
Melissa Schneider:    Cecelia Yus [none]
Johnny Strange:        Brandon Fields (DarthVincentPrice)
Mark Manchester:    Eric Kutepow [none]

Also Starring               

Amanda Allbee as    Police Station Secretary (CJAandPhaleneStudios)   
Max Butcher as        Father Fahrenheit (Max Butcher)
Juan Cabrera as        Kid (RockyDude411 Bricks)
Mary Charles as   
    Back To School Announcer    (Brick7)
    Organist
Anna Hostert as        Ann Coulter [none]
J Karson as        Police Officer            (NEED YOUR BIM HANDLE, I got disorganized)
Jay Silver as        Guest                (NEED YOUR BIM HANDLE, I got disorganized)
"Uncle Sluggo" as    Clerk     [none]
Andy Social as
    Cashier [none]
    Man In Line       
Michael Tourette    as   
    TV Channel Announcer (HoldingOurOwn)
    A-Fib Announcer           
    HBO Announcer           
    Bill Maher
    Cellmate

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I'm animating the second church scene now, and doing the most difficult sequence I've ever tried to date.  A lot of movement during communion time: candles flickering, organist playing, people walking, people moving to their seats, the priest, etc.  I don't even know when the organist is supposed to move her hands so I was winging it.  I bumped the camera twice and the battery died before I hoped, but the show must go on.  Very difficult animation.  I will find out soon whether I pulled it off.  Just hope it's well enough, as I don't want to reshoot this!

Last edited by HoldingOurOwn (March 21, 2014 (07:16am))

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