'ey,
I'm honestly just bored right now and therefore decided to do a status update for anyone who actually gives a damn.
First of all, I won the first prize for "Pico Day," with my cartoon: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/638237 which is pretty kick-ass, to say the least. I also have completely upgraded my computer set-up from an OSX lap-top to a Cyberpower Custom Gaming PC, with the biggest monitor I could find.
I am currently working on Anime Amigos Episode 2. I had initially intended for Anime Amigos to be 2 or at most 3 episodes, but now I actually have a lot of ideas for them. I hope starting this episode, I'll start using the ever so sexy looking cell-shading. Also, I have recently finished the Black Mesa mod for Half-Life and you might be able to expect a short parody based on that. I've also got some basic, sorta funny ideas for an Evangelion parody. Once the summer rolls around and school ends, I'll have plenty of time to dedicate to work and animation, so expect a more frequent upload rate by that time.
Thats it really
Thundaboom
I remember that cartoon. That must've been a lot of work put into one week.
What would you say was the most tiring part when you made the cartoon?
RyanStorm
The most tiring part revolved around file corruption issues.
I don't know what caused it to happen, but in order to edit it, I had to import the raw animation footage into Final Cut and then export it with no editing.
Had I not done this, re-timing ANY THING would've caused one single frame to cause some shit, and me having to re-attempt exporting from the start. It never worked, it told me the key-frame that was corrupted, but it'd always change and Final Cut doesn't have a time bar that tells you what key-frame you're on. So after wasting an all-nighter of sound editing, I exported the entire thing, un-edited. This time I had to redo all the extremely detailed shit I had just done the day before, because of a single frame. Everything went smoother as far as exporting goes, but Final Cut still crashed on me frequently if I had too many sounds on one clip. (The scenes of Pico standing on the cliff have about 8 different individual sounds as well as alterations between sounds, for wind, clothing, hair, and waves.) Every time it crashed, I wouldn't loose everything, but I'd get pissed, as it interrupted my work-flow. Things also took hours to render... theirs a reason I bought a new computer.