Presidents Day

It's presidents day! No Work today! Everyone say "Screw you, Gravity!" and fly into space! No one can stop you from doing it!

What a cutie!

In other news, I got another eyelash stuck in my upper punctum (although it was the other eye, wtf,) I just invested several hundred dollars in gold in case the economy collapses, and my supply of 36 cans of mountain dew is just about run out, so I'll need to go get more. These scenes with people take forever, since they have to be drawn and organized before they can be animated and plus there's so many of them. But I'm putting in some good long hours when I'm working, at least.

Money Pump

We could really use one of these for the office.

Moon Diary Trailer Hits the Fan

We made a new trailer for Moon Diary and it's really great, but we took a short cut and just used an Azure Ray song for the music. YouTube then deleted the audio, and, as you may know, audio is like 80% of what makes a trailer good. I need to read up on the law, I think that if we play a cover of the song then it's alright. If it's not then we'll probably make a song from scratch, but for now the trailer is delayed due to copyright infringement. Jeeze!

However, there is a new section to the site, the "Soon" page which shows the next upcoming project, in this case Moon Diary. It will be the future home of the trailer, as well as screen shots and a general progress report of how Moon Diary is going. There's a few new screenshots from finished parts of the animation.

 

You can visit the Soon page at http://www.yesbutwhatisit.com/moondiary/

Saving up for film festivals

Today for lunch I ate a can of sliced clams.

A couple days ago a loose eye lash fell into my eye. That's annoying. But you know the drill, right? You rub at it a little bit, and then if that doesn't work, you blink a lot. Blinking wasn't doing it either though. I thought for a while I was making some progress by rolling my eyes clockwise, but it always seemed to end up back in the same place. This continues to annoy me for almost two days before I try to just wash it out with water, by the then the corner of my eye is deep blood red. That doesn't work either, but I look in the mirror, and I realize that the lash somehow got lodged in my upper tear duct! It was literally lodged in my eyelid! My upper punctum, actually, as the image shows. I managed to finally get it out with some tweezers, a friend, and a great deal of concentration. It really sucked though!

Our animation studio has three employees. There's me, there's Erin Tanner over at http://www.erintanner.blogspot.com, and then there's our most important member, Bay Bay the cat. Usually she's in on time and never complains.. But see, Erin Tanner took her outside for the first time a couple weeks ago, and she was for the first time able to look up into the vast and infinite sky. Can you imagine looking into that bleak void for the first time? Bay Bay's productivity has dropped sharply, but we'll try not to let that delay Moon Diary too much.

The image above was posted on Erin Tanner's blog. I thought it looked really cool as a screen shot, so I decided to post it too.

Frame by frame gets pretty tricky. I recently got a part time job (Working for an Elevator Inspection Certification Company, yeah!) so the 8 hour animation days have been more like 2 or 3. I spent the last week or so working on this water effect pictured above. The image shows the outline of every shape in the water sequence, about 200 in all. It's a 5 second sequence in the animation, but at least it looks awesome!

10:39 am

Sometimes I forget how crazy flash looks from a distance. Do I really know how all those buttons and knobs work? Seriously? Have I been wasting my life?

Teusday

Things are going pretty slow on Moon Diary. The shots we are currently on are extremely complex, and difficult to figure out. Over a minute has been animated on day 4, and it is no more than one third of the way done. There has been some talk about cutting planned content for day 4 to get it done faster, but since this is a labor of love we decided to just keep plodding away at it. Hopefully by next week we can get a screen shot up of a new setting in day 4, we've been stuck in that dirty dusky ocean for weeks now.

One small update is I designed a website for http://www.thezestylibrarian.com. It's really simple, and only took about 4 hours to get this far once I had started. It was nice to really feel productive again, it's been a while.