Woo!

Well, I feel pretty proud of my progress last class, and am excited that we have an extra week to complete this project. I now can put a lot more time and effort into it and have a better result. Last class I got my tree branches to grow, and they look pretty realistic, at least compared to what I originally had. First, I was going to animate my hand drawing the branches, but this was looking really sloppy and unrealistic. So I watched the tutorial on masking and learned that this technique would work well for my situation.

My next task is animating the blossoms. I have found that the time consuming part is not the actual animating, but finding and understanding the technique in which to use. I talked to Krista last class, and I think I have a good idea of how I am going to do this. I am going to simplify the blossoms further, making them look less decorative. I think this will help tie the blossoms back to the movie. My goal is to work on this this weekend and then next week I can work on the blood dripping and the text.