May 10th

Today i showed a few people the rough cut of my video and they really liked it which has left me feeling very positive about the film.

I continued to try and solve the problem of the compositing animation with live action. I tried various file types to try and correct the problem. I found that it may not be keying the colour correctly because i am using bitmap graphics from Flash and not vector, meaning that there is a fade in the pixel colour between colours. I did find however that Flash enables me to import and export high quality videos so i might be able to just use Flash and not have to composite them seperately. Also i found out why the live action was so slow in my test on Flash. It was because i had set the video to 6fps but i should have left it at 24fps.

I also began the first bit of my animation today. Scene 1d is difficult as i have to change live action. I had to re-create the live action drawing as a digital drawing to enable me to manipulate it. I will talk more about this process in my sketchbook.