Addicted to Freelance

It's true, I'm addicted to freelance. No I really am because no normal man would subject himself to the things I do just to get a little extra cash. I was up until 2 am this morning doing freelance sheet timing and the bags are big under my eyes today. I called a friend of mine on the new Cartoon Network show Krypto the Dog Wonder and he gave me 200 feet of footage to time out. Sheet Timing is a process whereby they have big sheets of paper that account for every frame of film and the timer's job is to mark out each and every action ALL the characters do in the entire film, including background pans and camera moves. Doing exposure sheets is a tedious job and it has made me a tired man.
It's actually been a tough week as all my Aunt was visiting from Joisey last week and at the same time I had to reboard over 15 pages of lost storyboard for our short The Jackalope Boyz. Don't ask how it happened because I can't really answer you. It's somewhere in Cartoon Heaven I guess.

To make matters even more difficult, as a Director on Xiaolin Showdown we are also expected to storyboard half an act of our show which amounts to about 5-6 pages of script. That PLUS directing can be very tiresome and difficult... At least for me. I'm an "okay" storyboard artist but I wouldn't count myself in the top ten or anything and sometimes it's difficult to make my deadlines. So far I've done it but each episode it gets harder. To top all these goings on, like an idiot I went ahead and found some freelance to do when I didn't really have the time to do it. On top of that we had a lil' hiccup on Friday when we got 7 pages of notes from the Development team for Jackalopes just before we were to record. Stressed me out to be sure! Add to all that some EXTRA work, and as you can see I am addicted to freelance.

My mom used to say that I liked to have "5 plates in the air at all times"... I guess she was right. Tonight I will once again burn the lamp at both ends to finish the sheets for Krypto and get back to work to finish my section of storyboards for Xiaolin Showdown. Now if I can just figure out how to squeeze in the drawings for the new Ribeye book...