Getting Help

This is a good time to discuss getting help with your project. We’ve encouraged you previously to solicit feedback on your story ideas, storyboards, and story reel, but that sort of help can come from anyone with eyes and, at the least, a half a brain. If you have committed to developing the story and characters either by yourself or with a small group, the finalization of sets and props is an excellent opportunity to open the project up to a larger pool of help. You don’t have to, but at this point in the production, going from character animation to modeling books on a shelf can feel like a bit of a letdown. It can also take a while. Fortunately, the modular structure of your sets and object files (linked assets) makes it easy ...

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