Trio of Oz Progress and Rename

My animation is moving along nicely now. I have 50 seconds of shots completed. If any of my readers have done any animation, they will know that that’s some good progress. The way I decided to structure this animation was to have hand-built miniatures with CG characters animated on top of still images. This technique lets me crank out my shots pretty quickly.

In other news I’m going to rename my animation. I discovered that the Trio of Oz is a new jazz group. I was never really satisfied with the name. I started researching some new options for a name, which was really frustrating. There is a lot of Oz related media out there.

So finally the new name for this animation is “The Journey of Oz”.

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The Tin Woodman has found a new friend?