How To: Sleep - January Update

Hello, 2023! 

Welcome back to the 2023 edition of the How To: Sleep blog 

so a quick post-Christmas update... we're going to keep it pretty short and sweet though as we've only been full back for a couple of weeks!

We had our final milestone just before the break and it went really well, we have now been officially cleared to move into PRODUCTION!!!

So to kick off the term behind the scenes myself, Eli ad George our directors had a couple of mini-meetings online to discuss what was going wrong in some of the animations and what needed to change prior to production. 

But before we properly kicked off production, we wanted to welcome back our team from the break and had a little quick review of the current animatic before playing a few ice-breaker games. Speaking of welcoming we've had 4 new faces join the How To: Sleep team, some second years looking to branch out their portfolios taking our official team number to 18! - we're super excited o have you guys with us :)

One of the big things we instigated this month was mandatory character workshops for anyone wishing to animate our lead character. he looks very cute and squishy but is deceptively hard to draw so following a couple of tweaks to his design we had our first character workshop in the studios and we'll have another in a week. this will encourage our one-to-one feedback with each member of the crew to get them to a standard of consistency so Morris will look the same in every shot! 

Finally, we've finished off this month by celebrating our lovely director Eli's birthday and having a night off, a big happy birthday to Eli. Keep smashing it every day!

but so long 'till next month guys!

Cait Out 

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