I thought it was about time I did another Podcast, if only to speak to the team and update everyone on how it's going. But I usually prefer to only put one out if there's something to say. So aside from perhaps talking through our lighting process the other idea I though would be interesting would be to explain all the reasons we use certain software and limit our team to certain way of doing things. Basically all those annoying limits you're left wondering "why?". There's always a good…

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I thought it was time to chart our progress percentages over time so that we can see the rises and falls. We have almost a year of data just from checking the numbers at the beginning of each animatic, and I'll continue to update it as we go along.

 

I'm not quite sure how you get values out of one…

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I'm working on a short gig over the next couple of months that should pay the bills for a while. It's a pretty cool project actually. But it means I have less time mid week on the film right now. We have a queue of people waiting for assignments and I'm doing my best to get something to everyone, but unfortunately I'm the only one doing Layout, Final Layout, checking character dynamics, and optimizing the animation files for lighting. So it's a bit of a bottle neck. Obviously my priority has…

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I'm on a long road trip over the weekend (half way across America), so I'm preparing for that today and packing. I'll check in on the site as much as possible over the weekend and my time may be limited early next week too. So please be patient if you're waiting on me for something.

 

My appologies already to anyone waiting for the cloud flicker fix (Andy), it's on my to-do list but I suspect it's not going to get fixed by the time I leave since it's been a problem for a couple…

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I scraped a large area of skin off my right forefinger yesterday. It's not a major injury, but trying to let it heal has meant that a lot of things are very tricky to do. I use a Wacom tablet most of the time too, and don't even have a mouse on either computer, so doing the basics for this film is going to be tricky. Hopefully I'll be functional again by tomorrow.