I finished up two more wacky wavy animations yesterday.I was really pleased with one where the arm waved in front of the character’s face but the move is largely hidden since the other characters are in front. Anyway I plan to do two more mid distance wacky wavy animations and then I hope to do the distant arms on a single animated layer.
The end is in sight, but I will not finish today because I will be teaching 8 hours on online virtual classes for Elite Animation. Today I am teaching character design and animation. I might animate along with the student in the animation class but I will need to also demonstrate how to animate a bouncing ball.
Yesterday COVID Dystopia was rejected by the Sacramento Film Festival. I don’t get as upset by the rejection zs much these days, since I know this is an award winning film. I also know it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. A festival director has to have some pretty big balls to screen the film while promoting in person festival screenings. The message that the pandemic is not over doesn’t resonate when you want to crowd as many people as possible into a theater with no thought of air filtration or masking.
Again we are at the height of the second largest wave of the pandemic right now, making 2020 and 2021 look like cake walks. People however have been sold a bill of goods that the pandemic is over and everyone should go back to how things were in 1919. Mass infection is the goal, but immunity isn’t being build it is being demolished.