Still Planning - But work will being shortly

Ok I have been going over everything again and again to make sure that I do not get in over my head too much and to try and set some realistic goals.  After all this is still sort of the unknown for me and there is a very steep learning curve to be able to model and render some models and then to leap into a full animation short.

So in line with this I have set out the rough time line as below:

1. January – I hope to have properly modeled the base egg and to have the eyes and mouth sorted.
2. February - I hope to have the model rigged and facial shape keys set etc.  I also hope to be able to begin animating the mouth.  I have found some tools to hopefully automate a lot of this.  A test video will be made of the eggs face saying a sentence.  (I don't know what yet).
1. This is more of a technical exercise and will “prove" that 1 I know what I am doing and 2 this could lead somewhere and may attract some assistance.
3. March – Beginning efforts will be made to being the work on the actual animation itself.  Whilst the initial video is online I hope to begin gaining an audience and getting it known.
4. Unknown release date planned as yet.

Although the above is very rough I certainly hope to have more or less of this completed sooner than expected and it probably will but as mentioned there is a lot to consider and a learning curve to overcome.  Have I ever mentioned that I have never modeled a human or even a face before??? 

I am aware that there has not been any actual “Content” as such yet in this blog but this is very much the beginning and there are a lot of thought processes flying around and sometimes you just need to let it out and vent a little.