Dim Progress Check #1 - “Getting Our Footing”

This marks the beginning of my team’s year and a half journey in the production of our animated short “Dim”. I’m very grateful to be working with a group that is considerate of one another as well as the task at hand. 

I am a new addition to the project that Andy, Ari, Ian, and Mazie have dreamed up. Because of this, I have primarily spent this week getting a better understanding of the story, its characters, and the plot conceptually. 

In these first few weeks, we have started laying the foundation of our group priorities and goals with the assistance of a LinkedIn team-building workshop. Through this, we have determined how we are going to hold one another accountable, behave when there is disagreement, and manage deadlines.  We have begun the rough draft of a contract that is intended to solidify the ideas we have in regard to these matters. 

We’ve assigned roles and hard deadlines for our upcoming team iterative review. For this, I will be assisting in the blocking of the character animation, camera animation, and compositing. The team is optimistic and eager to get started, but also understanding in terms of pacing and workload. I’m looking to help in however many ways I can at the moment!