Lt-Wolf || Blog Entry Six

Well There goes my awesome streak. Shucks. Here is my little awesome weekend report.

Ok, as for progress for our team, I’m a little bit worried for Thursday.  Thursday, it seems like when the airstrike is coming, and I havent quite finished my bombshelter yet. Well… great. Thursday, as most people in our school know is the day that our project is “due.” it dosen’t have to be 100% complete, finished and polished but for a flash animator a little less than a week is scary.  Like Scary.

So this is the plan. Panic! I think that if we have our presentation up to a professional looking level, than we might escape decapitation. So rather than fretting on animating everything before the day. (because like seriously? No.) I think if we have everything lined and with a background, voices and SFX that are going to be donated by monique [I love you for that!] I think our milestone deadline seems possible.

For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, [My group members can skip this paragraph] I’ll line it out for you now. Backgrounds are easy to understand, but on Monday [hopefully] The music department are going to lend us recording equipment to record a oral part to the final product. Funny voices are going to be awesome. Also, When I say ‘lined’ I mean that once I recive the storyboard and individual pictures, I trace over them in the programe “Macromedia Flash” which will transfer the image to a ‘vector’ image. This is makes it possible to flash [because you cant flash or even edit jpegs.] And SFX [or Sound Effects] will be added on a extra layer by monique

I think if we can get to that stage, we’ll be ready enough for thurs. Because the weekend after is Cup weekend, which I have no trouble spending 4 days tidy-ing up our animation. Also, Since line-art and presentation /is/ the biggest milestone the extra week after thursday and the extra weekend to REALLY make sure everything is fine and dandy actully looks possible. So, if this plan works out we should have a AWESOME [no, really.] Flash for the Science Spectacular on the 10th of November. [dun dun dun!!]

I think because of the level of work we are literally sweating into this project this should be ok. I’m really happy to be doing this in groups, and with the people im with. Because seriously, There is no way in a frozen Icetruck that i’d be able to do all this by myself. Impossible. And I’m really happy with my group members, because they’ve all been really helpful and helping me out whenever they can. Three Cheers for you guys! =)

Ok, With that said I’ve actully tried to put my flash up on youtube to post here, but no such luck has occured. I added the file on October 10th, and the video still says: “This video is not yet processed. ” GRRR. Not that it really matters, We wernt going to show it on youtube anyway, but I wanted it here just for progress reasons. Oh well. I’ll have to try that again.

Now looking back I realise that I’ve written a therapeutic novel on my fears on a date a little under 4 days away. I hope that One of my teammates will come on today. [I have to repeat my love for MSN at this moment and it's awesomeness for the completion for this project.] So we can either confirm our script for voice recording tomorrow, or actully start sketching a storyboard.

So, a summary for this blog would be. Summary: I fear that we might not make thursday, but the final date, with long weekend and that extra week, is going to be a breeze.

Because, Well… we’ve done everything. Research is complete, the script just has to be revised and recorded, the characters are designed, we know whats going to happen we just have to get it down, and beths offered to help me with inking. Awesome, eh? Even if most bits arn’t lined, I think we’ll be ok. =) Whew!

Also, [sorry for those of you who get nauseated from timeskip.] After reading a few Youtube help forms, apparently .swf is a problem for youtube. So i’ll be trying a few different files then try again on wordpress.

EDIT:  Ok, So I couldn’t transfer all the things I saved to youtube because of the file format settings. I tried to convert it to .Mp4 and .AVI but alas it wouldn’t convert the .swf or the .hqx file. Ouch! So what I’ve had to is go back to the original .fla file and republish it but that means i’ve lost the previous stuff. 1,2,3 awww. … also there is no sound. but, whatever. xP Enjoy the quiet version. Without a border. lol.