I finished animating a third Minotaur but didn’t finished painting him yet. I woke up and decided I want to change the timing of his left fist as well. Today I think I will start tackling the largest Minotaur who passes right in front of the camera.
Painting yesterdays animation will take quite some time since over 28 frames need to be fully painted. I also have to darken the highlights on the bodies of the character. The brighter painting worked on the still illustration but I want all the Minotaurs to be similar in the final animated scene.
There is one more Minotaur carrying a skull that needs animating and then I suspect I will fill out the background crowd by duplicating several runs so that they fill in the existing negative spaces between the 5 Minotaur animations.
So far I have spent 7 days on just short of 2 seconds of animation. What a crazy business. This scene is wearing me down but I learn from every mistake and victory.