A YouTube Milestone

So, I just realized today that I am now the owner of a YouTube video that has been viewed over 100,000 times. That's right, it's taken more than 4 years, but "Hugest RCT3 Crash on Youtube" has finally broken the hundred thousand barrier.

Unfortunately, I haven't got much to report on Axis Mundi. Just keep your hopes up, and I'll try to do the same. I'm going to finish it somehow.

Storyboards and Photoshop

Unfortunately I have not actually filmed anymore for Axis Mundi since the last post, but I did work on it in a sort of round-about way. I had an assignment to sketch a 16 panel story board, so I sketched the scene that I am about to animate.

I also finished a project for one of my classes recently, where I had to replicate a photograph using collage techniques. There was an option to do it in photoshop, so that's what I did. The images on the left are my replications, and the ones on the right are the original pictures.

Notice the trees? They're from Crysis 2.

This second one is purely Google images.

There you go. That's what I've been up to lately. As usual, I need to get back on track and work more on Axis Mundi more often.

Excited

Today I got to polish off those 200 frames of animation I was talking about, and I imported them into RCT3 and filmed them. And.... oh man this film is gonna be awesome. I can't help but be excited at this point in the production. I guess that it's normal to be excited when everything is starting to come together.

SCAD Film Challenge Update

It turns out that it didn't matter that I was gone for a few days, as they have decided to push the announcements back until Monday. So, tomorrow I'll post again with the results. For your entertainment, here are the other 2 videos (besides mine, of course!) that I would choose if I were one of the judges:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg10Fi17GOs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMKfOTr55g

Not surprisingly, both of my picks are animation. For some reason, live action is almost always inferior to animation, unless the live action is done by professionals. At least that's my view.

So, yeah. Waiting till tomorrow.....

Some Axis Mundi Progress

I've managed to get a shot filmed for The Battle for Axis Mundi today. Yes, just one. If you recall, my mantra is "You can't rush art." That's definitley still going to apply, but I might be able to get on a more regular filming schedule in the coming months. So just keep waiting as usual.

I do have a few random screen shots from filming today. They are just screenshots of the greenscreen set. There's no way that you will be able to tell what the actual shot looks like from these.

I hope that you guys haven't lost your patience yet on this one. Enjoy the random, meaningless, pictures!

Lazy

I am too lazy to think of something different, so here is the update that I have been posting in all of the Axis Mundi discussion threads:

Lately I have been working more on the story. I have been spending a lot of time just sitting around and thinking about this project. I like to call this "mental production," hehe. Hopefully the fruits of this "mental production" will be obvious in the final product. I am, however, getting close to filming and editing some more. I will let you know when regular production starts up again.