So this has been a fairly interesting period for us. For
starters, we’ve discovered why the last couple uploads have taken ridiculously
long. Apparently Google has been restricting bandwidth to smaller servers (like
ours,) for the past month or so. This has resulted in snail-paced usage of
sites like Google Maps, and constant runtime errors on YouTube. But, most importantly
for us, it doubles the time it takes to upload an episode. We’ve never had the
fastest internet, and the average before this has been about an hour of upload
per minute of run time. Now it’s at least double that. This would lead to the
next several episodes taking 20 hours to upload, and the finale taking over 26.
During that time our internet will be almost useless to anyone who wants to use
it for any reason, no matter how simple. Despite this we will still try to get
the episodes to you in a timely manner, but that may not always be possible. So
if you log on one Wednesday looking for the episode, and it’s not there, rest
assured we’re uploading it at that very moment. It just could take a while.
Now, on to happier news. The last couple weeks have brought
us near completion on most of the season, we’re into the refining process now.
Here you can see an early attempt at creating artificial depth of field, and
what is called “rack focus” in the lingo.
Last week, a slightly smaller stunt team played around with
hypothetical weapon designs, and their proper use, with an eye to the
cinematic.
As you can see, this led to a little bit of, umm… posing.
(Or, as Jackie Chan would put it, the “wow.”)
A few things regarding the future of the team and our
projects are forming up, but there aren’t many details right now, so we’ll have
to keep you posted.
That's about all for this week. Until next time!
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