Today I continued work on my title project. At the beginning of the day I had all of my images and animated text in my composition, and had worked out the timings on the piece. After speaking to my tutor, who suggested a few changes and a few techniques I could use, I altered the effects on the edges of the images and animated my 'doodles' so they were drawn in like the text. After this I set up a new, smaller composition and animated my images to move around, revealing the pages. Once I had done this I added the final title reveal.
At the end of this work session I was really pleased with what I had done and was keen to continue and finish the project.
However when I came to open the project again a few hours later, I found my hard drive wasn't working, and after many attempts to find the problem, came to the conclusion that it had broken, and had taken all of my work with it.
I realise that I should have made a backup copy of all my work, but with such big working files, I didn't really have anywhere to back them up to.
I have now had to start my project again and am working really hard to get it back to the place it was earlier in the day and then finish it by next week. Currently I have composited all of the images and doodles and there effects and have begun rewriting and animating the text, which I am halfway through. After the text is done I will need to reorganise everything in the composition so the timings are correct again and then will have to animate the camera to reveal the finished piece.
I hope that I will be able to get back up to speed quickly and that this technical fault will not hinder me too much....
....And I have now decided to buy 2 hard drives so I have a backup of everything!
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