Thanks for watching and all the positive comments
This project was fun to work on, with a lot of learning opportunities. The student writer was quite pleased with the result, so it was a very rewarding experience through and through.
@ Droxon:
To clarify and confirm what was already said, every visual element (down to the posters and desktop icons) were created in Anime Studio with the exception of the notebook paper backgroud, which is simply an image scan.
I used Adobe premiere as a final sequence editor, but no layer compositing work was done.
Since I started using AS, I've been very interested in seeing how versatile the program can be, especially with using some of the 3d capabilities to facilitate what i feel are more of my strengths. Namely more of a camera/shot based framing approach to scenes, using a fuller environment, (rather than being able to visualize and directly drawing exactly what I'd like to see in the background.)
Some of the technique is surely not for everyone, and initially might devote much more time than necessary to complete a shot. But since my larger scale project will involve many and varied re-uses of the created environments, I'm hoping it pays off in the end.
It has been an ongoing process of figuring out what works well, what doesn't, and trying to nail down an art-style that bridges the 2d-3d look effectively. This is STILL an ongoing process, which kind of leaves me without what I would call an efficient and consistent "workflow." But hopefully there's something useful there.
While most of the stuff I've put out there stems directly from techniques already graciously shared throughout this forum, it is always helpful to see how people apply things and combine ideas to find something that works for them....
So, as I get my ducks in a row to get back to work on my "ZHS" project, I'll try to set aside some time to do a tutorial or some kind of more in-depth sharing of some of the ways I (try to) go about a few of the things people seem the most interested in.
Also then maybe someone might be able point out some other obviously stupid or ineffective approaches I have.
Thanks again everyone.
**EDIT** Also bear in mind that I cannot promise that any tutorial I make would not also be as obnoxiously long and wordy as most of my posts.
