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New Video Shot Briefings

I thought I'd try something new. So I've recorded 16 video briefings to help out a broad spread of shots, from new shots to tasks in progress and in need of a few visual explanations. It's an experiment in communication, so I'm not guaranteeing I'll do them for every shot. Making videos takes far more time than writing directly into the shot thread, but a big factor of an online collaboration, like this, is to find ways to span the communication gap left out from the lack of body language and… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on September 10, 2010 at 9:38pm — 1 Comment

Too many videos!

Not really... but it was interesting that we have so many clips on YouTube now that I'd been adding to a playlist, we hit the limit of how many you can have in a playlist! The limit is 200. I cleared out a few iterations of shots, but still hit 200 again in no time at all. I guess I'm going to have to make multiple playlists for each category, or something like that... but who has time to sort all those videos? We'll see what I come up with, it's not a priority right now.

On here we… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on February 3, 2010 at 5:27pm — 3 Comments

Reference footage & Teaser video

Thanks to Tony, Shannon and Emily we got loads of new reference footage done yesterday. I'll try and get it to the animators this week. Don't forget that that current footage is already available here:

http://devilsangelsanddating.ning.com/video/reference-footage-v36

and here:

C:\Devils_Angels_Dating\My Dropbox\Edit\DevilsAngelsDating_Animatic_Reference.mov

I'm turning my focus towards the… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on January 17, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments

Our biggest challenges!

It's good to see lots of green on the Asset Tracker. We're starting to see assets being finalled which is great as it free's people up to help on other things and unlocks lots of new areas to work in. For example we're nearly at a point that we can hand out Layout tasks, we're just waiting for a handful of pivotal assets for that. But what we already have is allowing me to fudge some previs and layout… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on July 26, 2009 at 9:52pm — No Comments

Project Introduction Video

I have been thinking about doing a video to introduce the project and put a face to some of the people behind the profiles. A friend of mine came through with a decent camera and spent some time acting as my camera man on Sunday. I've been editing the 1080 footage since then and so far it's clear I'll be needing a new computer before we get too heavily into HD footage but it's managing for now. Hopefully I'll be able to post the video up here soon.

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on April 21, 2009 at 11:08am — 2 Comments

Ticking along nicely

I've been focusing on the Devil and Death character designs lately so that we will have a couple of designs finaled to model from.

A few people have been playing around with the Previs rig and there's some debate about whether the rigging system is the best choice. If you want to try it out and talk about that there's a thread on that in the forum.

We've had a few interesting paintings of the clouds but I'd really like to get a few serious concept artists to play around… Continue

Added by Michael Cawood - Director on March 22, 2009 at 10:20pm — No Comments