Where TFIWL?
This week I walk into the room, looking around at your expecting faces. I'm reading your thoughts "It's the 20th! I've been looking forward to this day all my life!"
A tear wells up in my nose and I decide that this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I sniff as the tear begins to fall, but too late.. it falls out of my nose and cascades over my lips. Embarrassed and thinking fast, I try to hide it by bringing my coffee mug quickly up to my mouth. The edge of the mug cracks into my front teeth and scalding hot coffee splashes all over my nose and chin. I scream and blisters immediately begin to form.
You all look very surprised. Wasn't September 20th supposed to be the happiest day in history? Blinking through even more tears, I regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumcisions, Christmas is cancelled this year. Waterlollies is coming soon, but no Christmas (conditions apply, see your religion for details).
Like I said in my previous post, with the movie now being in the hands of other people, it's kinda difficult for me to give a finish date. However, the good news is that the scripting is done. Now the music is all that's left and progress is moving fast.
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Flash Forward Winners announced!
You beautiful people! 30 shorts took out People's Choice, which stunned me when I heard. You need a LOT of votes to take out that award, so thankyou everyone who took the time to vote for me. At the link above, you'll notice that Bernard Derriman won the Animation category, which earns his first orange rubber arrow (pff.. me? I got FIVE!!)
I animated an acceptance speech for the awards ceremony :P
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Brackenwood.net
Where'd it go? Well, here's a conversation I had on the subject recently:
Anyway, there you have it, the Brackenwood store is coming in a matter of weeks :D
I'll announce more in the next post but it's an overhaul far beyond anything I'm capable of.. this one's being handled by professionals, so you'll see a good-sized range of Brackenwood items very soon.
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ToonBoom Digital Pro
For me, learning to use ToonBoom Digital Pro has been a slightly bumpy road, but only because I've been working in Flash for 7 years. The documentation, tutorials and support are all very good, but if you're a Flash user, my advice is: try not to think in Flash terms.. it'll just confuse you if you try to translate your Flash knowledge to ToonBoom.
Anyway, it's a hefty, robust, powerful TANK of an animation program though and I'm foreseeing some awesome opportunities for Brackenwood. Already I'm getting some great results on this project I'm working on with Bernard Derriman.
Don't worry, I'm not about to abandon Flash.. after all, my audience is 100% internet and I'd be an idiot to alienate them. With ToonBoom though, I'm widening my scope and hopefully preparing for something big in Brackenwood's future.
A tear wells up in my nose and I decide that this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I sniff as the tear begins to fall, but too late.. it falls out of my nose and cascades over my lips. Embarrassed and thinking fast, I try to hide it by bringing my coffee mug quickly up to my mouth. The edge of the mug cracks into my front teeth and scalding hot coffee splashes all over my nose and chin. I scream and blisters immediately begin to form.
You all look very surprised. Wasn't September 20th supposed to be the happiest day in history? Blinking through even more tears, I regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumcisions, Christmas is cancelled this year. Waterlollies is coming soon, but no Christmas (conditions apply, see your religion for details).
Like I said in my previous post, with the movie now being in the hands of other people, it's kinda difficult for me to give a finish date. However, the good news is that the scripting is done. Now the music is all that's left and progress is moving fast.
--
Flash Forward Winners announced!
You beautiful people! 30 shorts took out People's Choice, which stunned me when I heard. You need a LOT of votes to take out that award, so thankyou everyone who took the time to vote for me. At the link above, you'll notice that Bernard Derriman won the Animation category, which earns his first orange rubber arrow (pff.. me? I got FIVE!!)
I animated an acceptance speech for the awards ceremony :P
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Brackenwood.net
Where'd it go? Well, here's a conversation I had on the subject recently:
Chluaid says: http://www.brackenwood.net/heheh.. I wish my Brackenwood property was worth USD 4.5m. I'd sell out, quick as ya like! Any buyers?
The Daily Crumb says: :O:O:O
The Daily Crumb says: that either means...... you've deleted it, theres technical error or you're uploading a new design
The Daily Crumb says: which one might it be :O
Chluaid says: it's been stolen. I tried logging in to my control panel and it failed, so I emailed the host and he said that I had changed the password, removed the site and reassigned the nameservers.
Chluaid says: When I told him that I didn't do any of that, he said that I must have given out my password. I asked if it was possible that I was hacked and he gave me this crap about how secure their system is, and how dare I suggest otherwise
Chluaid says: so I got a mate of mine who is a legal guy to write them a letter. They received the letter today and they had their lawyers look over it. They'll get back to me on Monday
The Daily Crumb says: fak
The Daily Crumb says: :(
Chluaid says: Basically the letter states that my Brackenwood property is worth USD 4.5m and if the domain was stolen and irretrievable, they'll be liable
Chluaid says: Whoever stole it has now got it shielded so you can't lookup the whois database for their info. I'll bet it's a spam domain capitalising on Brackenwood popularity
Chluaid says: oh by the way, everything I've just said is a lie. I've reassigned the domain to Yahoo so I can set up the Brackenwood store next week :)
The Daily Crumb says: .................
The Daily Crumb says: ill get you for that
The Daily Crumb says: |-(
Anyway, there you have it, the Brackenwood store is coming in a matter of weeks :D
I'll announce more in the next post but it's an overhaul far beyond anything I'm capable of.. this one's being handled by professionals, so you'll see a good-sized range of Brackenwood items very soon.
--
ToonBoom Digital Pro
For me, learning to use ToonBoom Digital Pro has been a slightly bumpy road, but only because I've been working in Flash for 7 years. The documentation, tutorials and support are all very good, but if you're a Flash user, my advice is: try not to think in Flash terms.. it'll just confuse you if you try to translate your Flash knowledge to ToonBoom.
Anyway, it's a hefty, robust, powerful TANK of an animation program though and I'm foreseeing some awesome opportunities for Brackenwood. Already I'm getting some great results on this project I'm working on with Bernard Derriman.
Don't worry, I'm not about to abandon Flash.. after all, my audience is 100% internet and I'd be an idiot to alienate them. With ToonBoom though, I'm widening my scope and hopefully preparing for something big in Brackenwood's future.
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By the way, if anyone out there knows what the problem is with the RSS on this blog (for some reason it's a failure), any chance you could gimme a step-by-step? I'm pretty clueless with that stuff.
Email me: mystifum#gmail if you can/will help me :)
soon .....
oh so very soon ....
yes....
creepy am I :p
Yeah! WTFIWL?
But we're getting used to the brackendelayfactor by now.
Sad about the domain.
But great on the WL progress.
And on BiteyBoom studio, could be awesome.
OR, you could sell brackenwood to disney, but that would mean that you'd lose the control of the beast.
Ohwell, get yourself an animating team!
n-n-no water lollies and n-n-no CHRISTMAS either? me = :(
run: C://happy-points.tst:
so about toon boom, i downloaded a trial of toonboom studio 4, hard to adjust... back to flash, flash is the rgram for me im afraid
heheh... i liked, how u lied to munch)))
and so sad about the delay of WL :(
... but oh well, i'l wait as long as it takes ;)
Congratuations on the award, but i am also glad bern won, you two putting your wizard like minds together will be something to look forward too long after the waterlollies hype has gone, well actually you never know your toon boom project may air before lollies lol :)
Congrats on the win. But not seeing WL today has been like an ice water splash to the genitals.
damn man, i was like OMG TODAY IS THE 20TH! LETS CHECK BITEYCASTLE for waterLOLies!
Okkaaaay, i guess waiting more will make me love the movie even more haha. Grats on having yet ANOTHER orange arrow, that's some neat stuff. I'll keep visiting the site everyday until i see waterROFLies
I'm getting into toon boom myself recently, mostly for the cleaner lines that it can achieve. I also like that it can Import a hand drawn sequence into and converting them into vector lines.
I dont think animating on toon boom stops one from uploading stuff online though seeing as it too can export swf files. Heres something I doodled in Toonboom, it is rather wiggly. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/tyokio/1435950.swf
how dare you steal my words of wisdom!
i absolutely adore the acceptance animation :D
I love that speech animation ^^
can't wait to see WLs but I AM interested to see what Nathan comes up with.
i've been getting into TB too recently. it has a bit of a learning curve but not nearly as big of a haul as AE was/is.
nice comedic timing with the speech ani too!
Just so you know, you can download a plug in for toonboom to import the movie to flash :)
That update was too funny. :3
I've been holding my breath for some time, so I can hold it longer.
Adam, re the RSS...
I get a 404 when I try to subscribe. It says that the requested url does not exist on the server:
http://biteycastle.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Maybe the powers at Blogger can help you? :P
Anyway, anxiously awaiting WL! And congrats on the Peoples Choice for 30 Shorts! (yay, my vote counts! Democracy +1) You deserve mucho kudos. Love ya! ~Fae
WL is like a pregnant teenager-
LATE LATE LATE!
Moving on. Adam, I want to see your work man. I want to evaluate it. To make songs about it. To tap my fingertips together and say "good... good..." about it.
I know it's not your fault. But all of us really know it's yours.
Much love and can't wait! :)
Do you have an exact time of how long waterlollies goes for.
RSS > http://www.feedburner.com
awwww man!
Im eager to see it!!!
Just have to sit tight and wait!
Congratulations for having it ready and much luck in your conquering the world plans!
Include me as one of your goons xP
It's a shame Water Lollies still isn't completed... my boyfriend and I are waiting with bated breath. =)
I'm not really big on flash and stuff, but your storyline and basically everything about it is amazing. Hehe it would be so cool if people could buy books about Brackenwood in story form or something like that. And Radiohead is marvelous <3
any week now! i can feel it!
Congrats dude!
muchlove!
Dammit! I fell for that brackenwood.net thing :( I feel like an idiot, lol
Congrats on the win! lol @ the acceptance speech!
(PS complete Waterlollies NOOOOOW *threatens with a baseball bat*)
:D
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