Behind schedule

Well, I'm officially behind schedule now. The animatics were scheduled for the 11th and we don't even have storyboard approval yet.

This means, of course, that my getting paid is now behind schedule too; completion of the animatics is my next payment milestone.

And, without a real storyboard to work with, I'm not going to be able to do a standard animatic, anyway.

For those who don't know, an animatic is basically just a PowerPoint presentation of the storyboard, timed to match the final animation. Sometimes, there's a tiny bit of animation; a frame might enlarge to indicate a zoom, or slide from side to side to indicate a pan.

But since our storyboard is just a melange of borrowed photos and book illustrations - which don't really match the final animation very well - I don't think that's going to work, here.

So I'll have to build all the models and do low-rez render frames to create a storyboard, then make the animatic of that. Which puts me further behind schedule.

It's frustrating and, since I'm not doing the storyboard, there's really nothing I can do about it. More work for me for the same amount of money.