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"The Animated Fog Stories Diary."

I thought it would be nice to start a diary. It won't be funny, it won't be a paperback best seller, and go on to make a girly film with Geri Halliwell singing the soundtrack... it's just a bog standard diary. I'll try and update it as much as I can, to show you the progress through the animation.

Why?

Because I can.

Of course, anyone else contributing to the animation, such as Pb, are very welcome to add to it... perhaps we could pile it together at the end, fling it on a DVD, and call it a 'Special Edition', even though it's utter crap.

First of all, if you haven't seen this pic yet, perhaps now is the time to do so.

http://swordspines.homestead.com /files/Tafs.jpg

What I'm basically doing first, is creating all the characters, faces, arms, bodies... so on. I first sketch them in my drawing pad... and then draw them on pc, from what I made.

That was the early Sheepy on the left, and Sniper on the right... unfortunatly, because I smoothed out the face too early, I had to start it again. All it takes away is time though, it will still look the same.

I've nearly finished Sheepys head now, including hair... Fancy a look?

No?

Ah well.

I'll at least give you the choice.

http://swordspines.homestead.com /files/Sheepy-mock2.jpg

The mouth will need to be made properly, and the eyes could be tidied up...

Apart from that, pretty good I think. It's the first time I've done hair, and I think it looks ok.

Here's something for you to do though... I'm not sure wherever or not to give him ears. I personally don't want to, basically because it's hard, and I'm lazy.

One thing I'm worried about at the moment is lip sync... it's not going to happen. If you have this wonderful vision of all the characters speaking perfectly, get your brain brush, and scrub them clear. You'll get a lovely *mouth open-mouth closed* movement. No more, no less.

And that concludes todays update. I've drawn Ant already, so I may start him tommorrow... or I'll start Sniper again. If you have any ideas, or comments, please put them forward.

Have you *any* idea how long that thing takes to download?
Even on a T1 connection that lets me download a 54meg patch in 2 mins it took 6 minutes to load.

That's absurd.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> er-no wrote:

I can make it run on a dvd, with some of the
> wonders of a
> Mac i can also get it to lok nice on TV.

The GBA screen would be a good
> size. See if you can stick it on a GBA cart!

My brother does have a device for that, although I think you can only hold 128mb on the small cartridge (not to sure). That is possible though.

Make a special GBA cart for it.

Out of bread.

lol

The amount of space it's using at the moment, you'll need about forty GBA carts...

er-no wrote:

I can make it run on a dvd, with some of the
> wonders of a Mac i can also get it to lok nice on TV.

The GBA screen would be a good size. See if you can stick it on a GBA cart!

er-no wrote:
"with some of the wonders of a Mac i can also get it to lok nice on TV."

Miracles. Unless it does them, no way. :0)

big_slow wrote:
> is this a notables only thing?

Indeed.... no not really. Its a REAL regulars and notable thing.

LOL

big_slow wrote:

"now im going to stay and make you life hell."

Excellent. Tell your friends and family where you are.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Alright, I'm fine with that.

But it wouldn't be able to be played on a DVD
> player... I guess you can convert avi's to whatever the DVD format is?

And
> then saying that again, it would be really crap quality... because the
> resolution of the video itself is only 320 x some other small number. You put it
> on tv and it'll look pap.

But when it's finished, as in about another year
> and a half, then yes, definitely have a go. :0)

I can make it run on a dvd, with some of the wonders of a Mac i can also get it to lok nice on TV.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> big_slow wrote:
> is this a notables only thing?

Yeah, get lost :-D

now im going to stay and make you life hell.