Let's just say...Spring Break wasn't good to me.

There comes a time in our lives where we hit an all-time low. For Spring Break, I had it all planned out where I would set deadlines to finish scenes of my film. I had key frames down for particular scenes and I wanted to finish majority of it by the end of break. Then these plans came to a screeching halt.

I found out my grandmother was in the hospital with the doctor only giving her a few weeks to live. So everyday during the break, I've been caring for my grandma in the hospital. I'm grateful for great family and friends who supported and comforted my family during these rough times. Thankfully, she is slowly recovering. However, I lost the motivation to continue anything academically because of concerns for my family. And that's what troubles me.

I'm in desperate need to get that drive back. I really want to finish this film, but I feel like with my current state of mind, I won't be able to execute and produce work that's quality under my own standards. I just need to recuperate. Maybe going back to school will allow me to focus more.

I sure wish we have class time to work on our projects so we could get more feedback and get more work done. Not to mention the environment in class seems fitting to accomplishing more towards our goals.

Update: I couldn't figure out why my Pencil Check Pro is malfunctioning. However, I did manage to figure out how to time the framing on Final Cut. WHOO! So far, I edited the timing so the animation runs a little more smoothly. I noticed during the character's push up, there is a skipped frame and she holds herself up.

As of today, I animated the character putting on her necklace. I'm still working on the follow-through of the hair and more in-betweens for places where the holds should be. I also redrew the character's last few poses to make it a more appealing composition.


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Except for a couple in-betweens, I've completed the most difficult scene in my animation. It still needs a little bit of tweaking for parts where the character pushes up from the floor and a little more holds. The last 3 seconds are the keys for the final part of the film where she puts the necklace on, holds it as if it were a sentimental value, and looks up and prays.

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Bittersweet Scenes 1 and 2

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