A different strategy + notes

So on this film what I'm going to do is edit the film without sound... I mean the shots are already timed for the dialogue and the like as I animated to the dialogue but I gave them all a little extra head and tail... Why r I doing this?

I like building things from the bottom up... like making sure something can stand on its own before I add another level on top of it... So I'm going to make sure the film works visually before adding in music, dialogue and sound design... and well also before the skies and other extra stuff is added in the compositing phase... right now I'm cutting the raw shots that don't have skies, atmospheric fx, post processing etc...

Running my 4 quad render boxes + 8 core render server 24 hours/day for a month adds about $125 to the power bill... So budget that in before you start your cg film...

I started work at 2pm today and finished just now at 2am...

I'm going to posting a like casting call thang here for the voice acting soon... So if you want to do a voice in HSM watch out for that...

Also make sure all your monitors are calibrated and sync'd to the same color space... easy way to do this... set them all to Srgb and download some pluge bars and make sure they all look the same... I'm using crappy LCD's but will borrow an old NTSC CRT monitor to do the grade when its all ready... but as long as they are in the same color space and the pluge look similar you'll be ok for Color correction...Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.