Ryan Estrada

I should be really freaked out by now, but I’m confident! Here are things that should be leaving me in a panic but that I’m totally okay with because of my ridiculous optimism.

 - I have two of five characters to animate still in the next 4 days.
 - I haven’t actually pencil tested a single shot. Besides the gifs and youtubes I made for this blog, I have no idea what this stuff is gonna look like.
 - My backup software stopped working sometime at the beginning of the month.
- I haven’t turned my computer off since day one, because I’m afraid that the next time I turn it off will be the day it never turns on again.

Oh well! I’ll keep firing along! That dude above is who I’m animating now! Nom deGuerre! In French, that means “name of war”. A pseudonym taken to help you become successful in a battle. His job is to infiltrate the team of UN scientists who are working to blow up the alien’s ship and distract them through such endeavors as drinking on the job, office romance, and pointless staff meetings.

Quote: “Despite my vast, encyclopedic knowledge of how to reasonably approximate communication with humans, I’m afraid I still don’t know how to talk to girls!”

If anyone wants to draw up some last minute art of this dude, it’s not too late to get your work on screen at the end of the movie! People will totally watch these credits too, since the funniest scene takes place after them. Since no one’s drawn David Manning yet, Hyun Sook took it upon herself to draw the picture on the right of him playing samulnori.

Well, back to work for me!