I am not Ambrose.

Worked on the character animatics today. I have to go to bed right now though for work at 5am tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm going to finish the animatics and also try to get some kind of sound program to cut up the voice files so it's not playing the entire four minute AIFs. :D That could get a tad annoying. I think I can also shrink the file size of the movie down by just cutting the clock sound effect down to one tick/beat and then looping it.

:O Matt I can't stress enough how sorry I am that it's taken this long to finish this up.

After animatics are done I'm going to rework the character artwork and start on the first draft animation and the voices synced up with the movie. When that's done I'll upload it somewhere so we can go back and forth and see what works, what doesn't work, what needs to be timed better, etc etc. Currently, this looks like it'll only be about a 30 second to 1 minute cartoon but that's without stretching out any parts to add for tension or comic effect blah blah so who knows? Anyways, it's not really about time but rather about what's going to work.

Ok, I gotta wrap this up cause it's bedtime. I need to find a good sound program while I'm at it!

Background settings are done. Now I just need to set the characters and voice over work on top of this and start tinkering with the timeline. I've got to go to bed soon for work tomorrow(gotta get my five hours of sleep!) so I'll work on this tomorrow afternoon when I get home. Also uuuuggghh to going in at 6am! I'll start drawing out better character designs. Not really a fan of the current ones since Bunny really is too muscle-y for an average male type character. I think the cat is just right though. Anyway, glad I got this first step done since it's probably the most important.

As always I haven't posted on here in forever. However, since I'm starting back up on the FS project I'm going to go ahead and keep this going as a production diary. Currently, I'm working on the rough animatics of the project. I'm going to be working first as a rough everything then going back and fleshing it out then repeating until we get the final product. Sort of like writing a rough draft then making a first draft then a final draft. That was probably an easy way to say it but I'm kind of telling myself these things as I write so it just helps me think to write out everything blah blah blah.

Anyways! Animatics so far are looking good. Right now it's just a lot of tweening and empty frames with the background roughs in them. Afterwards, I'll go back in and add the characters and voices and lengthen the holding frames/tweens to make sure the timing looks just right. Then it's in-between time! Then I eat snacks! Then I finish things up and see if there's any way I can make it look better! Then I cry a little! Then I send it to Matt for approval!

I lost track of my thoughts there and started rambling. Ok, this has been a good thought process right here with me rambling. I'm glad nobody reads this. :D


My goal for tonight: Finish the background art animatics!
Goals for tomorrow: Finish the rough character animatics!

Something I'm worried about is that the aif files are really huge and may end up crashing Flash. It's my understanding though that those are a better quality to use than MP3 so I can only hope the program and my computer are stable enough to hold them. Welp, it'll be a learning process!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm




P.S. It is.



P.P.S. I'm still not Ambrose.

Gradius: The Bacterian Wars


Prologue:

"For galactic centuries, a mysterious empire of alien beings known as the Bacterians held control over the vast star systems of outer space. In order to ensure peace between the empire and the conquered civilizations of neighboring planets a deal was made. Once a year an emissary must be sent into the heart of the Bacterian Empire to deliver a peace offering to the Emperor. In the year 6658, however, an uprising occurred that would escalate into what would be known as the First Bacterian War. Officially, what set off the war would be recorded as..."


Chapter 1: "...cause unknown."





Gradian Year 6658
Bacterian Territory - Outpost X3729-Delphi
Mission: Deliver peace offering to Bacterian Empire.











: "Mayday, mayday! I am under attack by Bacterian forces!"

: "This is General Bartz! What is going on over there, Viper?!"

: "The Bacterians have attacked my ship! Requesting permission to return fi-"

: "Negative, Viper! Your mission is to deliver our planet's peace offering to the Emperor of the Bacterians!"

: "..."

: "You've already fired your plasma disruptors at them, haven't you, Viper? Viper!? VIPER!!!"

: "Relax that sphincter, Gramps! I'll deliver our offering one way or another. That's a space-promise!"

: "Return to orbital base, Viper! What took Gradiyears to accomplish you've probably single-handedly destroyed in a matter of Gradiseconds!"

: "Viper OUT!"

: "Blast it all! He cut off the transmission! I'll have you decommissioned for this, Vic Viper!"


Next time...Chapter 2: Fahrenheit Four Billion Fifty-One!


Probably not. Anyways, sorry for the lack of updates. I've been working on a project with revme. Speaking of which, I'm almost done with the set design.