cat on lap

actually...she's sitting on my cintiq!!!
a bit difficult to draw ha ha

managed to get three more scenes done in the last week..still way behind target though...
but if i can keep the momentum up, it just ets easier to draw things out...
but i keep adding AND adding and adding things and of course it takes even longer...
have to be patient.
restructure my expected 'outcomes'...
a rough animatic is about ALL that will come out of this six months...
plus some random notes about methodologies and a bunch more info about postnatal depression, and something of a draft for the exegesis structure...
now..i AM still being too ambitious.

meantime - the garden is looking beautiful
we've had lovely people over for dinners
currently smelling a splendid beef n bacon casserole wafting down from the slow-cooker in the kitchen
my grandson is an angel...sitting up, crawling, laughing, eating granma's chicken soup...and his mother is on the UP (Yay!!)
is PND congenital???
god knows.


anyway..
bunch of books from Amazon arrived last week - thankyou Tony for the gift voucher for my birthday last year... i finally spent it! you rock!
except they are all 'work' books... stuff that's useful for teaching...but also a bit inspirational for myself i spose
both Walt Stanchfield's "Drawn to Life"...lovely books from the notes he'd made over the many years of inspiring Disney animators
Chris Robinson's collection of ramblings, essays, writings from AWN.com - the "Animation Pimp" - i used to LOVE reading his stuff on the website... but i dunno what it is, the book just made me feel a bit depressed - so many cynical rants and bites of bitterness coming through all in one collection...kinda put me into a bit of a funk as to why the hell I am making this film anyway...
perspective girl!! remember the perspective...
and also "Re-Imagining Animation: Contemporary Moving Image Cultures"..
one of the latest Paul Wells collaborations - he is truly an awesomely prolific writer on theories of animation - i feel humbled and don't even know if there's anything to ADD..
anyway...they'll be useful

plus got a lotta books from the library about the approach to screenwriting/scriptwriting so will pick and choose bits from there that will add to my grand theory.
been reading them in bed each night and morning...a good excuse to loll around in bed each morning til 8am when i have to actually get UP and get my daughter to school.

only 8 more weeks of this bliss left...
i better get a cracking schedule happening and get this to all come together

less blogging, more drawing