Sunny Shine :)

If I'm completely honest, the glorious sunshine of the last 2 days completely distracted me from my animation plans ... I fully embraced the 'you only live once and the sun doesn't come out very often so go enjoy it while you can' attitude to life.
This meant an amazing couple of days spend in Roundhay Park, exploring and loving the sunshine....

This also meant I lost 2 days worth of shooting some animations. In all honesty, there must be some health and saftey issues being locked in a small bedroom in 23/24 degree heat with 2 of those readhead lamps burning your face off...
So I've taken the redheads back to college, held onto the tripod, and as I got myself organised on all the paperwork bits over the weekend, I have a couple of days left to play around with different aspects of the animating techniques.
I think I keep taking too much on, I'm running before I can walk and I end up falling back ten leaps to the start because I haven't quite mastered the basics.
Therefore, I've decided to work with the lighting I have, but this time really focus on timing and movement of my animations. I want to make it slick and smooth, so I've got a really basic planed out storyboard, with specifics on times and amount of photos to be taken.

Even though I'm annoyed with myself for not completing an animation, my drive to want to make it perfect is making me realise I need to master a few techniques and understand a few things before I can crack on with the next phase.