The cats have been taking travel well. Think I’m ready to follow suit.
Travel Day 1: Just Chillin’
The first leg of this journey has been surprisingly smooth! I played a bit of Hollow Knight, but mostly enjoyed the scenery outside. I nodded off a couple times and had to pull myself out of an alternate universe a couple times.
Tomorrow’s Target: Idaho
It’s The Final Countdown!
I’m 98% packed and ready to go! I also tested a lot of low demand games to see how they would perform (don’t want anything to crash on launch). I have a little over a hundred in titles to keep me busy, if I feel the need to. I have the tablet ready to tackle other hobbies too, if for some reason I need to quickly edit a photo or a recording I’m prepared for that too. I’m actually kind of interested in how long it would take to render on a Surface Pro 6. I would be plugged into the car, so power wouldn’t be an issue. If it’s as painful as I think it is I will at least have my gaming laptop when we’re in the hotels. I could edit the files on the tablet and then pull them over to the laptop to render.
I suppose I should attempt to do that thing called sleep.
Cutting Off More Than I Can Show
The good news is that I finished putting the video together! The bad news is that in doing so I’ve uncovered a problem during editing; the video is too fucking short. The third Bayonetta video is about two and a half minutes total in length after editing out excess footage. This leaves me with no choice but to shelve the project until some other conditions are met first. That doesn’t mean the video is dead or anything, but it won’t be releasing this year. But hey, there are already the first two next month plus one on November (and hopefully December if I don’t go too insane).
Evening Open Thread
Just need to get through one more work day and vacation mode can ensue! I’ll be focusing on packing, starting tomorrow. I’ve commandeered a smartphone (nothing fancy) and programmed it for hotspot use in case I want to check into Mumble, or search for some information about where we’re going, or any other stupid task my brain decides to conjure. I don’t see myself having to use it much, if anything I’ll probably be keeping myself busy on the tablet with other things.
Open Thread!
Project Diary: Sweet Success
Finished rendering in After Effects tonight. Tomorrow I’ll focus on adding it to the main project; and possibly doing some voice recording tomorrow. If I only have just the ending to take care of when I get back I’ll stand a good chance of having it done by or around Halloween.
Don’t worry… next week you won’t have to hear about any of this. 😛
Remaining On Target For October
I don’t want to break my arm to pat my own back, but… I got a lot done with the video today! I got the SFM animations finished, and I’ve got everything in place for some work in After Effects tomorrow. After that comes assembly, and of course scheduling a time to record voice lines. I will need to go back into SFM to re-render something with a greenscreen, but that won’t take too long… or at least it shouldn’t. I’m still kind of surprised that I’ve moved through this so quickly. Rendered two things, compiled them in Shotcut, and ready to process in After Effects. It’s amazing what a little practice can do!
SFM Diary: The Spirit Of Video
I animated a couple of scenes tonight, even got to play around with some particles! and lighting! October is around the corner, and I’m cutting it close trying to finish this before then. I have a couple more scenes in this stage to put together, and I would need to animate Yutram’s, plus there’s still some voice recording that we need to do for the end. Finishing this before the end of October will be a close one, but at the same time I’m happy with how fast I’m starting to move in between scenes. This will come in handy since I’ll be away from this stuff for a couple of weeks! 😀
Zen Thread
I felt a little better today. I even managed to get a few things done around the house, and even made some breakfast burritos for Bro and I. I’ve been drinking nothing but herbal teas since the weekend started; mainly some chamomile, though I finished off the night with some red vanilla chai with warm sweetened frothy milk. I want to be as relaxed as possible before going to bed; my muscles are still a little tense.
Vacation can’t begin soon enough…
OMG Metal Weekend
I went from enjoying a relaxing game of MGSV last night (and even a bit today), to feeling really sore and nauseated right as I was going to bed. I’m feeling better now, mostly taking it easy. I captured the Honey Bee (again) and I’ve been doing side op’s ever since. Target practice (by running through all the targets), rescuing a sheep, people, destroying comms equipment and of course you can’t finish a game of MGSV without doing some cardboard box sledding. 😛
I’ll see what I can do on my current animation project… assuming that I feel better tomorrow. There has been a cloud of fog hovering around my head all day, which is slightly better than a cloud of fog hovering over your head while dealing with pain I guess.