And that's a wrap! Shooting on To Love a Ladybug has FINALLY WRAPPED this past week! With Phase 4 being due this past Thursday, we also got to throw in some compositing tests and other minor shots that had only been in the animatic phase thus far, as well as finished up our color script. It's crazy to imagine that almost one year ago, this project was little more than a spark of an idea, and now it has generated into something bigger than we could have ever imagined. There is still some ways to go as we enter post production in the next few weeks, but we're in a good place and can't wait to ride this baby into completion. Thank you to everyone who has helped out in any way this past quarter, whether its building a set, animating a shot, giving helpful critique, or simply following us on social media/this blog, this film would have been nothing without your generous support.
Now... let's address the elephant in the room.
As many of you, especially SCAD students, are aware, all of our classes next quarter will be taught online, as the school will be closed off to students and most faculty due to the coronavirus outbreak. For many of us, this will prove a problem, as many of the essential resources needed to work on our films will not be able to be accessed during this time. For To Love a Ladybug, however, things aren't too bleak. Since most of our filming was completed already, next quarter will primarily be dedicated to working on compositing, editing, sound mixing, color correction, etc, which can all be done from our laptops at home fairly easily. There were some plans for minor reshoots and pick up shots, which I can do from home, but with certain limitations that the stop motion facilities on campus would lack. So this means that picking scenes to reshoot will be very selective and there may not be quite as much room as hoped for to polish up certain other shots as a result.
Nevertheless, we will not let this slow us down and will do the very best we can to make this project the very best as it can be. Good luck with everyone's senior projects and have an awesome break!