OK sure it's been a month since my last post but Waterlollies is ready to submit pending one tiny addition. If that one little thing holds me up I'll submit it to NG, regardless.
To everyone who offered their support no matter how long the wait, thanks for your patience. I hated having to set estimated dates, only to see them go by as Waterlollies experienced further delays. It was (still is) pretty painful getting abusive emails, as if people thought I was sitting on my arse doing fuck all.
The fact is that having other contributors to the project meant that I could only set realistic dates for my own part of the work. So I worked hard getting all of the backgrounds, animation and effects done, putting the movie together and fine-tuning the flow of the story. For the other parts (scripting and audio) I could only encourage those artists to finish quickly, then step back and hope they would.
The important thing is that it's finished now and I hope you find that it's been worth the wait. Nathan McCree (the music guy) worked very hard on this. He's done amazing work as I knew he would. The music and the sound of Brackenwood is incredible and it adds so much to the animation. I'm very happy with the movie visually, audiblibabally and I'm also pretty happy with the story.
Speaking of story, I recently slapped my forehead as I came to the realisation that there's a difference between story telling and story writing. I do know how to tell a story well, but my story writing still needs work. I think this is why hitchHiker leaves a lasting impression. At its heart is a fantastic, gripping true story and I told it well.
My average Brackenwood movie however, the story is generally not as refined as it could be. So no matter how great the visuals, until I get my shit together the story will always seem a little lacking. There's been some positive and some negative response to Waterlollies story, but all in all I think it's better than previous Brackenwoods.
So I've invented a new motto: At the heart of a good story there's a good story.
See you in a couple of days!
-chlu
Imperial-hellkite
Oh my, I would be so nervous if I were you!
Plagued by computer crashes and possible viruses, causing you to lose that flash of yours would cause me to go insaaaaane.
Oh and much love to your sis, who does some of the voices, I think :)
chluaid
nah it's safely backed up in about 50 places :D
I've always been nervous about losing data towards the end of a project, and towards the end of Waterlollies, whenever I went out of the house I wore my USB drive around my neck and never let the latest backup out of my sight.
Always having dreams about a house-fire too, so I send my latest .FLA to my gmail account every week or so.