I am waiting final answer from animation studio.

If you want to make animation - you need storyboard, background designs, character and item designs. 

On this project TSI6,

Storyboard : done.

BG, Character and item design : partly done.

"Key BG" is most important image because the background artists of animation refer to. There are many information such as colors, moods way of expression to draw background.

I have planned to make about 35 key BG images for TSI6. May 28, I made a contract with an key BG artist.

It was not so easy. ^^;;;

Now I will send a message to the team which I would like to commission to produce TSI6 animations. and I will hide in my bed and pray - "Please say YES." LOL

I should have done this last year.

• Though it isn't fully enough, but I increased work hours as possible as I can. I can spend time for animation work at least 25 hours a week. And planning to spend rest personal hours on animation work too.
• I planned to do everything for my own, but for more efficient working, I'll use outsourcing for background and some setup works. It will be help to increase speed of progressing.
• My goal is finish all project completely in this year. I will report the time schedule and current status on next monthly report.
• I am considering some special present for long wait backers.
• Thank you so much to all fans and supporters.

Feb 2019, SamBakZa workshop have moved.

I was happy we got wider place but also sad because we lost 2 years of memory of last place.

But most painful thing for me is, because of moving I coudn't help but delaying "There she is!!" project again. In last 2 months there was many days I coudn't even draw a line. The idea of running workshop and doing creative work both at the same time was my mistake and my arrogant thought.

I'm trying to be positive about this and tried many ways, but my loose managing making it worse. The more popular workshop makes more work to do, that makes less time to work on animation. But that doesn't mean I'm giving up on this project. Also it's my duty for supporters presenting more clear solution about this.

I'm talking with colleagues to make more working time, and trying to make more realistic future plan for it. I'll tell you about it in next month report.

Pigs are a symbol of good luck and good fortune in Korea. This year is the year of the Pig and my animal year is the Pig. Good luck to all patient fans, backers and me.

"Another step" is still in layout phase which is going slowly, and 2018 is only less than 10 days left. So I want to make something for all patient backers and fans, I made 2019 calendar images.

I made this with "Doki and Nabi walking in Seoul" art pieces which I made in 2013.

Related post (sorry.. Korean language only) : 

production report 1 / production report 2

These figures are sitting on window at SamBakZa workshop.

The calendar is wallpapers with 1920x1080 resolution. I used holiday information from TimeAndDate.com, and I made it for 38 countries on Indiegogo backer information. Also these are available for everyone. I wish this can be small but nice present for this holiday season. 

And now, I'm going back to working on layout. Thank you to all fans and backers for your patience.

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The exhibition I mentioned in last month's report is almost over. It was really busy month. I'm glad everybody liked it but also really exhausted cleaning 3 stories exhibition building and Sambakza workshop. It's going to end soon. In this week I will finish pull down exhibitions and organization, then I'll go back to layout work of "Another step". Thank you so much for your patience to all supporters and fans.

I heard backers of "There She Is!! The Official Card Game" are concerned if they can get 72 online preview reward, because the kickstarter project seems almost stopped. The person in charge of that project is Yo Leiten. I will do my best sending out that reward to all backers through him. If not, maybe I can send them individually after get backer list from Yo, so don't worry about it. In this project I'm in charge of Digital thank you letter, wallpaper and 72 online preview, and Thank you letter and wallpaper was already sent.

SamBakZa is preparing for end of the year exhibition, which we do every year.

▲ Song songwha and Sogong planning for exhibition

Thanks to those two, I can concentrate on "There she is!!" production without joining the planning work. Of course I will help when they require physical work such as sawing or moving tables. I feel thankful and sorry to colleagues caring for my working hour.

I want to held exhibition about "There She Is!!" in next year. I am sure Sogong and Song songwha will gladly take part in it. To accomplish that I am working hard for layout  of the another step animation.

Thank you to all fans and supporters for your patience.

At the early day of this year, I got one precious advise from chief of animation studio I know. 

"You better stop modifying the storyboard and proceed to the next step.  If you keep stick with one scene you might not able to finish it in this year."

That really enlightened me. It was my bad habit keep working on one thing until I really satisfied with. and it really delaying this project.

"Ok got it. Thanks for advise"

And 6 months later, I finally finished all storyboard work in last week... ;;;;;;;

Seriously I really finished storyboard and start working on layout. However when I found something unsatisfying cut I go back to storyboard again and fix it. Then ending isn't look good with it so change it again, then foreshadowing looks weird so change some of that again... ha... hahaha... ;;;

If you find one funny comic book at the day before big test, you would feel like "Uh oh. I'm screwed.". And between such horrible guilt and sweet pleasure, you keep reading comic. You never be able to get out from it. So, with feeling similar like that, If whole 6 months of storyboard working become useless, how would it feel like? 

Fortunately that didn't happened and result is satisfying.  7 minutes 44 seconds, 165 cuts. You will love Jjintta set and Py like you did for Doki and Nabi.

All you need to do is wait. (I know you already waiting pretty long though...)