Fire Operation Demo

Been a while since my last post. Moon Diary has been on sabbatical for the last couple weeks as I've been learning how to use Blender so that I can make these educational videos for my job. It's got a near 90 degree learning curve, but once you memorize the capacities for the program it's pretty simple to put something together. I made this video in a little under two weeks, and in this format it wouldn't be too hard to extend it to an hour as proposed (I hope.)

I've also made another short film for submitting to the Olympia Film Festival. I'll put that up sometime this week, and it'll go on the main site, so official vid. It feels really great to get something finished. The current plan for Moon Diary is to record vocals for day 6 sometime this week, and once I have those full production will be back in effect.

NAESA Action Stills

Here's a few action stills I made for a NAESA brochure. Hwat a happy little elevator man.

The results are in!

After being shown at conference in Canada, NAESA board members had this to say about the company profile I made for them:

This is a really nice deal. Very nice job.

-Jonathan Brooks

I LIKE IT !!!

I think Curtis did a good job with this infomercial.

-Bill Snyder

This is a great infomercial. Do we have it on DVD to share at our next Central Region Workshop?

-James Borwey

Well... I'm impressed!!! I think this is the start of something big.

My compliments to Curtis.

-Jim Runyan

Excellent presentation

-Larry Watson

Good Job

I like it

-Jim Brune

That is a very good infomercial and you and the staff should be commended.

-Douglas S. Warne

So there! It's a hit among the elevator industry!

NAESA International Company Profile

Just finished the NAESA International company profile earlier today, just uploaded it to YouTube 10 minutes ago. Been working on this thing rather than Moon Diary for a while now, but I just got ahold of "Godel, Escher, Bach" and as soon as I've started making some good progress on that I'll be starting the storyboards for days 6 and 7, meaning the beginning of the end.

Any way, enjoy this informative diversion!

Can you believe I'm being paid to make stuff like this?

Cinco De Mayo Update

Day 4 is DONE, as of several weeks ago, which means there's only day 6 and 7 left. I estimate day 6 to be two minutes long and day 7 to be three to four. Moon Diary is currently 12 minutes long, and once you add titles and chapter transitions that means this thing is going to be just under 20 minutes when it's done. It's already the longest thing I've ever made.

I got commissioned to do an infomercial type animation for naesai.org. That means that, for now any way, I am a PROFESSIONAL animator, in the literal sense. There is absolutely no mistaking it for a hobby any more, I'm being reimbursed for work with money. Since I've decided to post fewer screenshots from Moon Diary I might be focusing more on this paid animation on the blog for a while.  

Here's the character design for the narrator.