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Good day, Mr. Phelps. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write, storyboard, and animate a three minute long animated film. As always, should you or any of your IMF team be captured the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of you and your organization.

Good luck, Mr. Phelps.

This blog will self-destruct in thirty seconds.

No, it won't. But there have been times when I wish it would. The past few months – and more specifically, the past few weeks – have felt exactly like Mission Impossible. I really thought we were going to live up to our team title and fail epically. But this weekend was when I turned the corner.

I finished all my 3D animation and started animating in 2D.

It is going so very much faster now, and I'm burning through scenes right and left. At this point there are twenty more 2D animations to do, and five static images to make. I've already been through all of my scenes, and if count right, there are thirty-five scenes that are done and waiting for final inspection before rendering. More importantly, I'm starting to count things. I only do this when I can see the end of a project coming.

The end – that's an amazing concept.

I'm starting to see the whole of the film come together in the working reel, and that is something absolutely amazing to behold. It actually looks good, and works as a narrative. That's bloody astounding!

So, there's only a few more weeks to go, and the drop dead deadline is looming large. But I feel confident. I know that we can make it. Sure, there will be lots more late nights, but it's going to happen. More importantly, in the end, I think the three of us will have something to be proud of.

I really like that idea.

Until next time – same bat time, same bat channel. Stay tuned.