I AM NIGHTMARE Production Diary #9
Production is still going smoothly- I'll be animating full time for the next three days then I'll take about a week aside to create a new animated music video from scratch for Rabbit Junk- its an epic track so I really have to do something awesome for it- I use music videos to test new styles and techniques so I'll be sure to try some new things when I get to making the video this coming week.
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Teenee eats a sammich in front of his friendsI'm animating pages 12-24 of the script this month which is 136 shots- It's the second sequence out of the films nine and I will complete it this month-
I'll be sending out the rough cut of the films first 17 minutes to the voice actors some time next week- I've added my friend and fellow filmmaker Jimmy Screamerclauz to the cast as the voice of the films monsters btw-
Speaking of Screamerclauz- that crazy guy and myself will be attending and showing our last feature films at the Victoria Independent Film Festival on April 4th in Victoria, Texas
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If you're anywhere near there come out and watch the films and meet Jimmy Screamerclauz and myself- come out and see our films on a screen bigger then your laptop! AND if you're interested in Reptilian humanoids and demonic possession you couldn't find two better guys to talk to about it ^_^
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Bog is not very motivated by this motivational image Once I get back from Texas- I'll be animating Sequence 3 in April- and then I'll be going to Iceland where I'll animate the beginning of Sequence 4 also in April/May- I won't try to do production animation on a laptop again- tried that on HSM and it was way too frustrating as I'm used to dual monitors and good gfx performance.
Thankfully I have access to a decent PC with dual monitors to work on there- HEY it might be one of my render nodes that some how made its way over there?! ^_^ I'm going to grab another one of those $89 Asus gfx cards to use on that PC as it has my old 8800GT card in it which won't even play my character rig back at 24fps 0_0
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RUN from some un-textured non final rendered thing!
I feel like I've learned so much in the past few years its made creating this film really fun and easy and I HOPE TO be able to create some thing to share the way with you- I outlined this whole new tutorial series but that is on hold as I use an older version of Cinema 4d- version 11.5 which is no longer available- IF I create tutorials I'll have to use a newer version like R14- unfortunately changes were made in version R13 which broke my workflow so I can't do fast or fun work in the new versions- and again if I made tutorials I've have to use the new version.
My major problem comes with the overhaul of the Visual Selector which was done in R13- I've tried but I can't work nearly as fast or as smooth with the new one- its throws salt in my game- it totally ruins the fast and efficient way I've come to work-
So I want to share the way I'm doing these things BUT I can't do it with old software that isn't available anymore can I? I want to share project files BUT they would be incompatible with new versions so yeah it sucks.
I have several other film projects waiting to start once I finish I AM NIGHTMARE but I'll do my best in creating/sharing something big in hopes of helping others make their films in Cinema 4d.
On a random note- I have a live action horror script I wrote last year "in development" 0_0 I'm not even lying- I'm not going to direct it or anything I just wanted to try writing a script to sell- I don't have first hand contact with the producer but apparently its going to be made this summer. I'll post here when I know more about it- but I'm writing another live action horror film to try and get produced as well.
I also have an animated Sci Fi feature script sitting around- no one will probably want to produce that- as Sci-fi isn't as marketable as horror or romantic comedies apparently 0_o
I want to try something new with that- I want to produce the first 12 minutes of it as a pilot and use Kickstarter to fund the feature AND its not something I'm really interested in animating- I would just want to act as director- I'll animate the pilot if I have too BUT I'd really like to start working on side projects as a director and let pure animators go nuts with the animation- its also in a realistic style that I don't do- so if you're some dope 3d animator and you want to work with me on a 12 minute animated sci-fi pilot holler at me!
I'll do a formal introduction and call for crew on that project later in the year- right now I've got I AM NIGHTMARE to handle.
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