Foundations

 Well, the Willamette Valley has finally thawed out, and all the busted pipes have been patched. With that out of the way, we turn once again to series duties. With the edit and effects of the first three episodes completed, and the bulk of the remaining work turned over to our composer, our attention shifts to the next block of three, and the next season as well.

We're well into the episode 4 edit, all the way through the dragon scene. The animation for that scene is currently in the coloring and texturing phase, and work has begun on the Solensgate model.

 

 The Season 2 script has been finalized, and copies printed out. If all goes well, we may have a first reading within the next couple weeks.

We are looking forward to putting the first few episodes out there and seeing the audience reaction. Hopefully that will draw enough support to go ahead with Season 2, which promises to be bigger in every way.

Well, that's about all for this week. Until next time!

Get Me Out of Here!

 Ten days. Ten days stuck up here on the hill, thanks to ice and snow. If I'm up here much longer, I may just go nuts.

Still, it has allowed me to get a lot done (in between fixing pipes and such.) The website has been updated, including Becca's bio here:

http://www.brightswordproductions.com/cast--crew.html

Also there was the awkward and slightly sad moment when I realized a cool scene I'd been working on for weeks was hurting the episode. So it had to go. Sound cleanup has continued, and David currently has three more files in his inbox. The sound effects for the first three episodes are pretty much locked, and test viewings have helped me refine the edit further. The dragon for episodes 4 and 5 is also being re-textured.

Basically this last week has been about refining the product before delivery. Soon now, very soon... (well, if the UPS will let David loose for any length of time.)

That's about all for this week. Until next time!

The One About Words... With Pictures!

 Funny enough, this week we'll be talking about words. But we'll be doing it with pictures, so I guess that'll make it a lot of words... Um, yeah... anyway...

This week was half taken up with Thanksgiving and family visits, but we still managed to complete the fae audio, fix badly corrupted sound, (thanks David!) and finish up a couple effects. Which brings us about here in the storyline:

 But the big accomplishment for the week is this:

 

 

 We have subtitles! Now the elven dialog in episodes 2 and 3 can be understood by the audience! Needless to say I'm just a little happy about finishing that. It was eye-wateringly dull. My biggest joy, however, is buried in the middle of that second paragraph. Thanks to some cleverness on David's part, we were able to eliminate some severe noise pollution from a bit of dialog in episode 1.

Well, that's about all for this week. Until next time!