The Chase

"The Chase" is an animation produced by and with story by Fenny Kar and realized by artist Sasha Morrissey This blog will document progression on the piece with concept art and works in progress. Artist contact: feathercritter (at) gmail (dot) com Artist website: http://www.sashamorrissey.com

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The Chase - Shot 6 - Frames 55 and 93

Lowell doesn’t quite know what to make of Lobo’s predicament…. but they’ve got an idea

Patreon campaign to support this short film ends tonight! New Patreon projects start next month! 

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guess which frame I gave up on

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3000 notes because I wrote ‘fuck’ on an animation frame what the hell tumblr

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January 17, 2020 - Hey I finally finished this short film! This is the last month you can support it on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thechaseanimation (this url will soon change - check my tumblr page in February for new URL and new projects)

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The Chase is nearly complete and this is the LAST MONTH you can pledge support on Patreon and get rewards!

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FINAL MONTH of The Chase Patreon - Important Info!

This is it! I'm in the final stages on The Chase and it will be done this month. Thank you SO MUCH for all your support!  Here's some important info!

The final charge for Chase rewards will be on February 1st. If you wish to receive rewards for the final month please do not cancel before that goes through.  

I'll also be putting out a survey for patrons! Filling out the survey will net you additional bonus rewards like a custom sketch, high res files, or stickers in the mail!

As part of the survey I will be contacting people who qualified for their names in the credits to get how you would like your name to appear. Pup tier sponsors who do not have enough months to qualify but want their names in the credits should contact me asap to work out a direct donation for the remaining amount.

I should have all the rewards, except possibly the owed watercolors for Alpha tier, done by sometime in February.  

A patrons-only version will be released probably in February. The actual premiere / public upload of the film may yet be for some time. For one thing I wish to complete a personal animated production logo to add to it, for another I want to investigate the possibility of having it shown at a film festival, and some of those have rules about whether it's already released or not. All current and former patrons will be contacted when the film is finally publicly released online, whenever that may be. 

WHAT'S NEXT? The Chase Patreon will be transforming! I have some new projects in the works that I'm VERY excited to announce! I'll be gathering feedback from the aforementioned survey and restructuring reward tiers.

Thank you SO MUCH for your support on this project and I hope some of you will join me for the next!  

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April 4, 2017 - Shot 14 Finished! 

Damn I forgot how long it takes to inbetween all that fur ughhh. Been at it for three days. Also added some more squashing and stretching and it's feeling more fluid, hurrah. 

Got this finished up the other night but then had several super exhausting days at retail job and didn't get it posted. Did a few extra tweaks just now though; fresh eyes always help.

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March 28, 2017 - Shot 14 Progress

Between the last few days a bunch of inbetweening, re-timing, re-drawing etc. Pretty much got the motion down and now just gotta fill in the body, smooth a bit, etc.

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March 24, 2017 - Shot 14 Progress

Man I really struggle with these subtle close-ups. This looks less like butt than it did when I started today though, so progress is progress. I think I need a few more extremes and probably more miscellaneous timing and spacing poking, but it's bedtime.

(Sound really makes this one, download attached)

Also, the moment I uttered the words "I should have time to take some commissions," two people in my department at retail job announced they were leaving and I got called to fill in several times for unrelated reasons on top of that.  So that's probably out the window for now. I'm working there the next few days, too, but I should have some time to stream work on this early next week. Hoping I can finish this shot this month!

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Shot 14 Keys!

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March 12, 2017 - Shot 13 Finished!

And colored even!

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March 12, 2017 - Shot 13 Rough!

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February 28, 2017 Shot 12 Lines Complete! I had a real frustrating time with Lobo's part of this shot and had to keep redrawing and rearranging things but it's FINALLY DONE yay!

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February 18th, 2017 - Shot 12- Lowell Finished! WOOOO these motions were hard and tricky but Lowell is all done for this shot and it came out better than I thought it might! Next up is Lobo for this shot, might start on Sunday.

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February 17th, 2017 - Shot 12 progress

Six hours of streaming and a few more hours off offline work today. A lot of tricky experimentation and editing and re-doing things a few times to get this dizzy wobble right but I've almost got it. Will try to stream tomorrow as well.

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February 12, 2017 - Shot 12 Progress

Haven't found a solid chunk of time to stream again (maybe monday or wednesday) but I've been working away!

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February 1, 2017- Shot 12 Lowell Keyframes

Woo bunch of work today. Keyframes for Lowell on shot 12, and got started on some cleanup and inbetweens too!  

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December 6th, 2016 - Shot 10- lines finished!

Lobo's tricky timing has finally been sorted and this shot is done drawing-wise. Yay!

The end of this shot will have a violent camera shake added in the compositing stage, hence the extra ease-out frames.

Heyo kids! I'm so incredibly sorry for the lack of updates. Here's what's up:

My new job was supposed to be part time. However, I've been working 40+ hours almost every week. This being the holidays there's not much to be done and the team needs me, however I am going to speak to management about reducing my hours in January.

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November 3, 2016 

Still chipping away at this shot! Lowell's got their tail now and Lobo's struggles are getting roughed in.

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October 12, 2016 - Shot 10 Progress

Primary animation for Lowell finished for this shot! HD attached!

As I mentioned in a few places, I got a new job! This will allow me to focus on the film more as I won't have as many artistic distractions. But my work pattern has changed to working for ~1hour a night instead of several hours all at once, so it doesn't usually make sense to spend 15 minutes of that time setting up a stream. Instead I've been posting micro-updates (a few frames at a time) to my twitter ( @ feathercritter ) as part of the "sketchbet" daily drawing challenge

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