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Ken and I (Alder) will be working in Flash to animate our scenes, with assets created in Illustrator, as we are much more experienced with using the two in the animation process, and also for what we wish to achieve Flash seems far more appropriate than After Effects. Although assets have already been created by Mitchell using Photoshop, they are all raster and therefore unsuitable for Flash animation, so I will be regenerating the graphics we need using Illustrator to take advantage of their much cleaner scalability.
Benefits of Flash:
Drawbacks:
We have decided to make a slight change to the animation. We are re introducing a scene that we originally cut in place of one involving the main characters and the constellation of Orion. This has been replaced by an additional scene on Earth involving the main characters waking a rooster early which in turn causes the humans on the farm to wake up in a large commotion.
It was decided that at this point the Orion sequence was too complex and didn’t add much to the story. This new sequence makes more sense in context and is very appealing visually.
Myself and Ken spent the day in the Cork School of Music creating some of the sounds that will appear in the final piece. It was time well spent as now we’ve the beginnings of how Altair, Vega and the other stars will sound as they move through the piece. And through utterly destroying our vocal chords we’ve gathered the basis of the sounds our monster will make.
There has been a slight change to our awards system strategy. We have removed the “executive producer” credit. This leaves a more balanced three levels.