As I've said before I've been working on a new animation. In a previous post you can see one of the backgrounds I've completed for it. Unfortunately all of that work is gone. I had been working on it at the studio I work at when I had any free time at the end of the day, and I have not been home to work on the project on my desktop. So there is a couple weeks worth of work that wasn't backed up. When I get home to plug in my external hard drive to begin the back up process I heard a noise coming from the drive and I knew right then that I was never going to see that data ever again. I ended up losing the backgrounds I worked on, some character designs, reference photos, as well as the script.
Its sad I know, but I'd rather it have happened now earlier in the process than later. Luckily for me though I've re written the script a couple of times now so I pretty much know every line of it. I've got rough character design stuff in a sketchbook of mine so its just a matter of cleaning them up and getting them on the computer again. As far as the background goes I still have a scaled down jpeg image to use as a reference, but I'm still going to have to re-create the image so i have a hi-res version for the final film. This kind of stuff is such a headache, but I should have seen it coming. That hard drive was old as dirt and I should have been backing things up on it either on someone else's computer or online. Oh well, what's done is done. So later today I'm going to head down to best buy and get a replacement hard drive. Maybe I should get two so I have a back up for my back up?
Learn from my mistakes. BACK UP YOUR DATA!
You can thank me later.
EDIT: Just realized that I lost my my storyboards as well. I thought they were all in a sketchbook, but they were all digital.
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 10:03AM 
