this ones for ringo!

7 days and nights

ok. its the last lap. a whole bunch of scenes are waiting to be rendered. i've booked the sound mixing session. the music is going to be finished next week. we're still animating shots.. maybe about 10 left to do out of 60 or so, including the shots animated in flash. but then we put it all together in aftereffects and have to grade it, which is playing with light and shadow on the 3d renderings in a 2d enviroment, which is fun and easy coz its so fast. not like the stupid ass fuckin son of abitch i hate you fuckin asshole rendering lark. numbers. wait. numbers. wait. asshole rendering!

although max tundra gave me a cd of all his remixes on tues when we were in london for the new caribou (formally manitoba) show wot we did all the visuals for. i met kevin shields and bit my lip trying not shout in his face how amazing i though his music was. so all this junk is keeping me happy (and other personal things which will never in a million squillion jillion years become internet knowledge). so basically due to some strange turn of cosmic events, there 8 or so days left until the most important deadline of my life so far and i dont feel stressed. its weird.

although gimme a few more days and maybe i'll feel different.

i wanted to put more stills up but nothings finished. i'll put a frame from a pre-post render still.

well done madden who won the free pint for reading my blog less thanm 24 hours when i published it.

time to pull a del 9 on this film...

shh shes dead i mean asleep ah whatever

Rendering Nightmare

Well the film is pretty much finished except for rendering and compositing.

hahaha no it isnt.

everything is taking longer than i expected... well being producer/director/animator means i'm doing shitloads of different things at the same time. the multitasking aspect of it is worrying coz it takes up bit of energy switching from director mode to animator mode to producing mode.

that paragraph is a product of stress. meetings are procastination. ignore meetings and just give out to everybody and scare them into working harder. thats one way of doing it... hope they arent reading this. i dont think they care really. hey the first del9er to say "squidger wicket" to me i'll buy them a pint.

and i put a big sign in the studio sayin "23 days to go" which is ammendable daily to one digit lower.

thatll do it.

heres a still.

later.