Great stills, the atmosphere and detail has a lot of texture to it. I can feel the humidity and almost smell the place. Looking forward to this!

Thank you all for your kind comments!

This looks pretty impressive indeed.

Wow, this is fantastic! I'm getting pretty excited for this project!

After a bit of a  hiatus, I'm back on track with this project again. I recently got a new job AND moved to a new apartment, so I haven't really had the time to work on this these past few weeks. I'm not quite as busy now though, so I managed to animate a couple of more shots. I've decided to shoot one location/room at a time, starting with the easier ones and then gradually making my way to the tricky shots at the end of the shoot. Right now, I've finished shooting all of the exterior shots as well as all but one shot of the bathroom. This should amount to roughly 3 minutes of the finished film, so shooting is probably about 20% complete!

All of the stills below have been quickly edited to get a feel for the final thing, but it's really all just to test it out. All the real grading will be done during the editing process. My camera can't really get to close to the figs though, so I'll have to frame a lot of the interior and close ups shots during the editing as well =/

Some of the exterior shots:

And some of the bathroom shots (Without re-framing):

This is (roughly) how I plan to frame the two bathroom shots. Unfortunately the resolution does get worse as I zoom in, but hopefully it will still be watchable =P

I have also decided to give the role of Luke to Blandeer! Welcome aboard! This does mean that the casting call is pretty much closed, but thank you everyone who auditioned!

Coming up, I'll animate the final shot of the bathroom, and then I'll move on to shooting everything set in the bedroom.

Cheers!

The sets look amazing, looking forward to it

And so the slowest project ever is updated again. Seems like I'm posting somehting only once a year

Once again, this project has been on a bit of a hiatus. I'm still going though, and plan to finish it before the year is over (although I did blow my previous deadline quite spectacularly, so yeah... ). I've recently moved once again, so I haven't had any of the animation stuff set up properly until last month. But I'm glad to say it's coming along smoothly now! I'm animating roughly one shot a day, which is way more than I ever did before. I've shot slightly more than 1/3 of the entire film. I've now finished all the scenes in the bedroom as well, so I'm currently working on everything set in the hallway (which is quite a lot since it connects to all the other rooms).

Some of the hallway shots:

In case anyone was wondering, this is usually how I set up my shots. I always use two lamps, but with the rest of the room dark. I find it makes it easier to control the lighting that way. Since most of the film takes play during the night, I usually never point any of the lamps directly at the set but rather bounce the light off the walls. My camera is quite cumersome unfortunately, so I have to remove a lot of the set for each shot, which is also why I try to shoot all similar shots and angles at the same time so I won't have to rebuild and redress the set everytime.

I also use a printed out backdrop of lego trees for any background visible through the windows.  It's a bit low resolution, but I find it works for the background of the shots, as long as it's out of focus!

Cheers!

Looks great. I love that one shot of the telephone in the hallway. The narrow focus and soft lighting give it a great feel.

You said you're removing and building up a lot of your set between shots. Do you have any strategy for this, like storyboards or shot lists or something like that? I've always struggled planning out my films. I tend to end up with a lot of unnecessary removing/building the set while setting up a shot, or even having to rebuild parts of the set after I realize I have to animate more from a certain angle.

Another update! To my own surprise, production is actually still moving forwards quite a bit. I've now shot more than 50% of all the shots, which calls for a celebration no doubt, so I thought I'd share some animation for the first time! Roughly 20% of all the shots will be for the climax of the film, and I will shoot them last. Those shots will also only last about 1-2 seconds each. So basically, I only have about 25-30% of the shooting left before I start shooting the climax! But now on the the animation demos.

This first one I shot in early february. I do feel like I could have animated him stumbling backwards at a bit quicker pace, but other than that I'm fairly happy with how it turned out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDcKl6b … e=youtu.be

The second one is more of a camera move than animation. It was quite a tricky shot to pull off, so I kept putting it off until about two weeks ago when I finally took the time to shoot it. I want to use a lot of fluid camera moves to try and create some good atmosphere, and hopefully it'll work out as planned =P I might add some subtle digital camera movement to this shot as well to make it feel like we're actually moving closer to the doorway even at the end of the shot. Because of poor set layout, I couldn't move the camera any closer =/ It works fine as it is though I feel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vteBt … e=youtu.be

I've also moved on to shooting all the scenes in the kitchen, and finished the first scene just this week:

Coming up, I'll shoot the last scenes in the kitchen, but I'm not speculating as to when that might be done, I'll just end up blowing the deadline =P

Cheers!