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June 29, 2026

3rd Month Down!

A screenshot of a DaVinci Resolve preview window, but it's just white text on a black screen, reading "titlecard goes here"
Sneak peak of the DaVinci Resolve workspace I’ll be using for post-production.

Still chugging along on my secret animation. I’m still not spilling the beans on what it’s about, but I’ll share how the progress has been going.

  1. Voice actors have been chosen, and they already submitted all their voice lines! I’m leaving the door open with them if I need any revisions or new lines, but for now I have paid for and received everything I was open-calling for, so I’m happy.

  2. I got a musician! And it was pretty much a God-given miracle how this happened. Maybe I’ll discuss details in a future newsletter on how this person joined the project (with permission of the person of course) but we already got it figured out what the soundtrack is gonna be like! I’m expecting an around 5-minute project that will have at least 2 tracks, but we’ll see what works best for the project in the end.

  3. All backgrounds are completed and I have since moved onto keyframing! Also remember when I said last newsletter that I only took a week to storyboard the entire thing. Well…

I shouldn't have skimped out on storyboarding just cuz i'm the only animator of my project. Girl now I have to figure out this blocking stuff in KEYFRAMING 😭😭😭😭😭

— 💜 Marlene :) 💜 (@marlenesantos.com) June 25, 2026

Eh, I always anticipated keyframing to take the longest for this project. I pray to be done by the end of July haha. Which I guess means that’s what I’ll talk about in next month’s newsletter. See ya then!

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