Spent pretty much all today and really made some progress. I have no idea how long this movie will be, whether it will make the "hurdle" time of 4 minutes. I have no idea how much work is left: I think I could finish it by the deadline, but it could be that I don't finish it in the 10 day extension that I've allowed myself, but I don't think that's very likely. What I do know is that I will shortly have some sort of animated film and there are some small touches that I really like.
Today I went to the open day at Studio 24 in Sacramento as I knew the people from the Sacramento International Film and Music Festival would be there and that you could pre-register. I think all preregistering did was get you on their mailing list, and everything happens on August 4th, but at least I'm on that. I also got a chance to ask them about the output format as that has been worrying me and they basically accept anything, so I think my 640x260 @ 15 fps, rerecorded to 29.97 fps should work. I just uploaded an avi, x264, mp3 audio, 15 fts to youtube and that works fine. I was quite pleasantly surprised at the quality.
Big day tomorrow. Two more scenes to do, all of the animating, sound, and music, ready for a big render and composite on Monday.
Hey Steve, I don't really know what I'm looking at, but if there's anything I can do to help (lend a voice, or whatever) lemme know. I think this whole thing is pretty damn cool, and I can't wait to see the finished product.
ReplyDeleteThanks Junior - I really appreciate that. With this project, I'm wanting to do all, just as a sheer test of will, but I'm having so many ideas for future projects, I will come back to you.
ReplyDeleteThings I'm probably going to be looking for: concept art/character design, story ideas, voice acting, "idea bouncer offer". I had thought about approaching you before for character modelling: I think you're style is well suited to that.
I had one idea just from your comment, that I might do in the future, kind of the opposite of this. My idea is: I seek contributions from everyone, artwork, ideas, dialogue, sketches, doodles, characters, photo's, movie's, voice, sound; anything anyone's willing to give and I'll try and put it all somewhere in a short film.
No sweat, brotha! I'm excited to see this thing come together. Whatever I can help with, just lemme know. I'll do what I can for ya.
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