independant journal

Independent journal

Current state of mind - Tough sometimes working during summer and get easily distracted into relaxing and swimming and all that fun summer stuff...sleep schedule needs to be kept up.

Current Task(s):  Sound, Applying changes to 2nd version of animatic
 
On The Horizon: Improved Animatic

What is working: Having my work cut out for me...haha.

What isn't working: Sleeping into daytime...

Additional Thoughts: Rikki Tikki Tavi

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The animation is as special as the main character. How did they make him so cute? Cute and vicious at the same time, haha. I will have to animate a cat's facial expressions. This gave me a few ideas of how to handle facial expression with an animal's face; anger, innocence, happiness, annoyance, reactions such as biting, fleeing, sniffing the air, etc, things to keep in mind, or make a list of, that cats typically do when reacting to situations.

Luckily I have a great book called the Encyclopedia of the Cat, which has any kind of scientific information about a cat I could need; typical  structure, traits, behaviors etc.

A cat's emotional capacity isn't very expansive; They will react one of four basic ways - eat, mate, fight or flee. One more facet that adds to their personalities though, is revert into "kitten" mode when petted or scratched, as this mimics grooming behavior in a mother cat. These are all things to consider when animating reactions of the cat in my story.

After all, the cat has a big role as supporting actor :)