Long silence, but good news!

Haven't been updating/working on my personal project for longer then I would have liked to.
There are some personal reasons, but now that the issue is over and done with I can say what's new, what I plan to do and when!

What's new, well finally we have fast internet! Instead of 25kb/s, the speed is now ~8mb/s which is a MASSIVE improvement. (I love it.) This might sound like little news, but the fact is that the computer (Windows 7) downstairs on which I must do my project used to have no internet at all, no idea why, but it simply would not work. Now the issue with that is that I would need to have a laptop or some iOS device with me whenever working because I couldn't check anything or download necessary software. Now that this is fixed, I can freely work downstairs with no issue (the connection still gets disconnected sometimes but hey ho..)

What's coming up;
Wednesday, Friday and the weekend (Sunday at least, I'm away Saturday) will be Personal Project dedicated days (in this week) Meaning that I will start recording every single animation. I have a list of which animations I will need from every character, so now all I have to do is the easiest thing.
I select the movement I want my character to do from a drop-down list
I record the movement
Aaaaand that's it. How simple is that? When all the movements are done, I will open the video editing software, insert background, which I will get from this handy program: http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net/ Then I can simply add the animated character, move him into the place I want him to be (my machinima has no big fight sequences or action filled moments) and then as a last step add the music and voice acting. (MAYBE I'll add subtitles too, as I know that voice acting can often be a pain to viewers...) If however I don't have enough time (I don't know how long this process will take) I will only add subtitles and no voice acting, making this a "musical" piece.
Because however simple it sounds, it's a tedious, time taking process. Ah well.
Also, dear Mr. Rawson when would you be available for a meeting? I'm good on wednesday and thursday and friday... Basically the rest of the week!
A little note aside from personal project; I think I might continue to make machinima when this is done... I just.. like it!


So there's that.. Off to work now!

Back from the brake, screenshots of final characters

Finally back home from a fantastic holiday in Ticino, was sunny and inspiring :)

No onto personal project; below are screenshots of the final characters that will appear in the movie.
(The number of extras might change, but that's not very important, extra's just brighten up the scene if necessary)
The script is.. being worked on, I don't want to share it till I have the final version. I'll make sure to improve it until it can't be improved anymore; since the machinima will only be ~2-4 minutes long, I need a perfect script to make sure those few minutes have a big impact and fully use up my abilities!
Through the weekend ill download the Adobe program (T-mobile STILL haven't granted us fast internet. *sigh*

So without further adieu, here are the characters!

Bar Keeper

Child (important character!)

Female Extra 1

Female Extra 2

Female Extra 3

Female extra 4

Female Extra 5

Female Storyteller 1

Female Storyteller 2

Female Storyteller 3

Guard

The Last Storyteller

Male Extra 1

Male Extra 2

Male Extra 3

Male Extra 4

Male Extra 5

Male Storyteller 1

Male Storyteller 2

"The Evil" (not actually an evil character...)

So there they are! Now back to work on the script...

What's your favorite character?

Meeting before the break

Not only do we have to have a meeting before the October break, but I also have quite a bit to discuss;
The script!
If it is okay for Mr Rawson, a meeting sometime tomorrow (Tuesday October 11th) would be amazing to discuss my script, it's strong points and it's weak points.
I'm quite proud of it and I think it would work really well and wouldn't be too hard or wouldn't make the movie too long either.
We'll see.

Script!

Downloaded myself a little handy program onto my macbook called producteev. Its basically an online/computer/advanced homework diary.

It will help me stay organized, but thats besides the point.

I started writing the script, and it should be done this friday. I am really pleased with it so far, and I hope I can finish it and still be proud of it!

Screenshots! (finally...)

Sorry for the lack of the screenshots, the last few days have been hectic and confusing.
Anyway, here are 3 screenshots from each of the two characters

• Storyteller
• The evil

There is place for improvement, as you see the storytellers hair through the hat. This obviously won't be the case in the machinima, but I have to find out a way to stop this from happening. 

Another problem is the kid's model wouldn't load properly, for some reason his feet were missing. The model viewer is still in beta, therefore bugs occur. The model always worked before, so I hope this will be the case here as well... Anyway, here are the two characters!

Sorry for lack of screenshots!

In the previous post I promised some screenshots, but before I got to it, I realized that I was missing an important part in my Geography essay, and therefore forgot completely about the screenshots.
I will upload them when I get home today!

Screenies...coming soon!

Just a very short update, to let you know that ill be uploading the screenshots of the storyteller, the kid and the evil in about 15-20 minutes!