Well, it's finally here

The utter freakout, that is. No matter how many times I told myself that I wouldn't have as much to do in the final stretch, I do. I have what seems like more to do now than when I started - I suppose that makes perfect sense, since you don't know what problems you're bound to encounter until they hit you in the face.

I have all this great audio but no moving images to go with it. I'm supposed to be making a film not a fucking lecture. It's driving me crazy. On top of that my great looking skin looks totally weird when it talks. I'm having all sorts of trouble with faceposer. It's a real challenge to get the proper phonemes at the right magnitude. Either the mouth just flaps around looking stupid or it doesn't move enough.

I spent too much time sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for my film to show up last week. I kept tweaking the skin and tweaking the skin without doing any animation, and then when I finally got him talking I realized that the mouth isn't in quite the right place and he looks totally strange when speaking.

As of an hour ago I have 10 days until it's due and 20 until my screening. That means I need to have a really solid rough draft done by the 24th. That's 240 hours. If I work 12 hours a day that's 120 hours. 7 for sleeping and 5 for etc. That's too much et cetera! I can pare that way down...