Back to square one

Damn 3D art; damn it all to hell, I tell you! I just don’t get it. I spend 3 hours staring at the screen today and got none of the work done, because it just plain doesn’t make sense. Stupid idea, really, making art a 3D environment. What was wrong with 2D animation in the first place?

*sigh*

Anyway, we’re back down to one track, ‘cos the guys didn’t like the heart one. Honestly? The more I listen to it, the more I can see their point. It is ear bleeding material. Pretty boring and it fails, miserably I might add, to capture the mood of the environment. I’ll have another stab at it tomorrow, I think.

It’s valentine’s day tomorrow, yet another day in the calendar than promotes corporate gain by making us all pay ludicrous amounts of money for presents we don’t need to. Why must there be a single day of the year when you have to tell your partner that you love them? There doesn’t, but it’s been around for so long now that we just feel guilty about it from day one. If you don’t buy her a gift, you’re a bad boyfriend/husband. To hell with you, mister corporation. I don’t owe you shit!

And I got lucky being with the one girl in the world (or so it seems) that doesn’t want gifts and rubbish like that. It’s pretty awesome.

Love you. Yeah you.

I’ll have to have another stab at the 3D tomorrow, if I can be arsed. Character animation is coming along slowly too, though CoC is going well – made some pretty decent notes today on the ident I have chosen and got some excellent research into the production processes of these idents in industry.

Woo. Go me.

Two down...

That’s two songs in the bag now, or as close to two as it is possible, without being definite, I suppose. All that needs made certain is what the guys think of it. Once it gets the go ahead, that’s two. One for the brain and one for the heart. And it only took me 3 hours this morning. I could have all the music for the game finished by the end of the week at this rate.

I still haven’t found my pen for my graphics tablet, so any digital artwork for my other modules is pretty much right of the window, to be perfectly fair. I can still do some work on them though, so I’m going to try and draw mylittle ninja character in flash and see how that goes. If that works out, I’ll make the storybaords today and be done with it for the week.

I really hate animation.

That’s all today, apart from the fact that I have a cold and my head is killing me.

Pheh.

Monday Madness

So I got one track completed, which I’m quite chuffed with. I can see it working in-game quite well, I think, and I just have to get opinions for the guys before I show it off completely this afternoon.

I’ve taken the neuron track and given it a good old, English nanny shake, removed the lead in, edited the mix levels and added some effects. And? I got it wrong.

The effects work perfectly, in reality; they really give the track life and some rhythm that it didn’t have before, the levels combining with this to split the backing and the melody into separate tracks for a change. However, there are a few things that need to be given another look. For example, the drum track is way too quiet, it need a very, very small boost in volume. The track is flat and needs the intro back, to give it some life again.

I’ve lost my pen for my graphics tablet, so working in flash is out of the window for sure. Not that I mind much, I’ll probably just get some quick stickman sketches done tonight. Watched a King Kong documentary on audio post production, and also bought the limited editions of all three original Star Wars films, that is to say, episodes 4 through 6, so I have a lot of notes on audio design roughly drafted for Concepts of Composition.

Art-wise, I’ve as yet done nothing for 3D, though I think Mike and I will be getting together in Whitespace this week to rock through most of the worksheets involved there. Then quick sketches to throw together my models I need and the work for them can commence slowly, but steadily. The same goes for character animation, once I find my tablet pen.

Meeting now for ED, and I can see the BBC guys from here, so I wonder what’s going on with them, huh?