Behold: Checklist.

☑ Critique Skoodge Audio
☑ Critique Tak Audio
☑ Rerecord Toll Guard Mockup Lines
☑ Contact ToonBoom with software questions
☑ Compile Prop Concept Art List
☑ Post Prop Concept List
☑ Post BG Concept List
☑ Critique Irken Pilot Lines (Take One)
☑ Create Mockup lines for extras
☑ Adjust BG Concept Art List
☑ Adjust Prop Concept Art List
☑ Critique Gaz's VA's First Takes
☐ Upload BG Concept Art Video
☐ Upload Prop Concept Art Video
☑ Complete Smoots's Concept Art☑ Revise Concept Art of Zim's Stilts
☑ Record Bob and Larry Audio
☐ Complete Robotic Substitute Concept Art
☑ Approve Tallest's servants Concept Art
☑ Critique Tallest Purple Audition
☑ Skype Call with 3 of the VA's

You best behold it.

You beholdin' it?

Good.

Checklists, Checklists, and More Checklists

Here I am; it's Sunday, I just woke up, and I have to wrap up my checklist for last week...

...so I can make a new one for this week.

It's not bad, though. I'm cool with checklists. They help keep things organized, make it easy to streamline the production process. They are essential. And - oddly enough - rewarding. It feels good to just check those boxes off, you know?

There's something rewarding about getting work done.

Well, me sitting here blogging isn't getting work done. So, I'll get right to work.

Another Day, Some More Work...

Well, looking forward to getting more work done for IZ:TDM! today. Specifically, working on Smoots's concept art and creating a revised concept art video for my concept artists to work on. Yes.

It might sound strange, but this is actually a critical stage in the animation process (concept art creation) - without artwork to refer to, all the characters and settings and props would look totally different when animators do different scenes. Concept art is vital, but it's not the only vital stage. Oh, no - here's the catch:

Every stage of animation is critical; scriptwriting, voice acting, concept art, storyboard, layout, posing tests, animatic, rough animation, inked keyframes, inbetweening, coloring, shading, special effects, compositing... I could go on and on. It's all very important, and - without it - no animation would get done on this film.

But the key isn't to worry about all these steps at once. The key is to just focus on the steps you need right now, and wait for the rest to follow.

Big Day Ahead

Well, I've got a lot to do today. I have to listen to some audio, have to create some mockup lines, have to get times back from some of my VA's, and I even have more concept art to draw! But that's okay. You know why? Because I enjoy what I do. :)

Also, Helvetica.