Things are going well as all the rough animation is finishing up. Its nice to have only 6 scenes to deal with instead of 45 or 50 as in the previous Watchcat episodes. My good friend, Alejandro Torres has created a nice wintery looking house which you will see more of at the end of the short. Here's a photo of the "house in progress".
Last week, we got a really nice email from Lindsey Villagomes, who we met at CTN Animation expo this year. We gave her our Watchcat Episode 2 postcard and she was kind enough to send us this feedback. Hello! I met you both at CTN this year and I just wanted to say that
WatchCat is amazing! I absolutely love the atmosphere it sets up as well
as the sense of humor. There was so many times that I would just burst
out laughing from expressions on the character's faces to certain things
character's would say. It's a great project and I can't wait to see
more in the future! :D And I will for sure be spreading the word of
WatchCat around! Lindsey This came at a time when I was considering saving the Holiday episode for next Christmas. After reading Lindsey's letter it let me know that at least someone took the time to let us know they liked what we are doing. It also helped me keep on track and get this Holiday episode done in time. And so, here's our rough animation for Lindsey and other people who like what we are up to.
It was an amazing week, beginning with the launch ofWatchcat Episode 2 and endingwith a visit to the 2016 CTN animation expo in Burbank over the weekend. This year the convention changed its layoutby setting up a huge air conditioned tent structure which housed the entire exhibit floor.
The main area which use to hold the exhibit area, now held all the lectures or panels. Not sure how many people attended, Saturday was the biggest day and the big tent held everyone quite comfortably.
There were places to sit and talk, surrounded by several lighted trees and even a roller skating creative spirit who dibbled sparkly dust on top of the heads of unsuspecting attendees, like me.
If you attend, you will always run into creative people who's artwork will inspire you and is for sale. You can talk to them because this is a place to meet new people, so don't be shy. You will run into people you have worked with or for and even meet new friends as well. A lot of animation studios were there to review portfolios and meet new talented artists.
Disney was giving away movie posters of "Moana" and I was luckily enough get one of the last. A young lady approached me asking where she could get a poster, but unfortunately they were all gone. I discovered she was from Denmark and was here to see what CTNX was all about with a desire to get into animation. And so, I gave her my Disney poster and a postcard of our Watchcat Episode 2 to take back to her country. The rest of the day, we met lots of artist and attendees by telling them about our project and giving them a postcard of where to watch it online.
Meeting previous students again!
We are finally getting a great response from viewers of this blog. Thanks to your reactions, our all time views grew to over 10,385. Over the past 2 days, Our Youtube channel, Watchcat Films Episode 2 moved up to 130 views to 225. After CTNX, our video views increased to 342 and are continuing to grow hire. We also began with 27 subscribers and now are up to 66!
During last week of all this excitement, we came with a solution of producing shorter videos in order to complete them in a few weeks as oppose to a few years.
We have something that we will share with you in the next post. But for now, we want to thank you again for supporting Watchcat and letting us know you are out there and like what you see. Help us share our Watchcat Film youtube channel and subscribe to it if you haven't done so already.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving! From: Greg, Jim and Watchcat!
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