Posted by Glen Moyes on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 1:20
That’s right. Today Google has stretched forth its almighty hand and imbued us with the power of posting videos longer than 15 minutes on youtube (and collect money from advertising). Usually this is an honor reserved for people that are more important…like, content producers. We didn’t even post any cat videos! (Or squirrel videos as Glen points out.) No, apparently Google—on a whim—decided that we were worthy. Apparently Google worship has payed off at last.
To celebrate we have uploaded a video of 16 minutes of silence, just because we can.
In other news, we set up Gobby 0.5 and it works great.
Posted by Glen Moyes on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:01
After flying underneath the radar, we present to you our current progress of the script for Hackberry Hollow. We’ve done a ton of work since the last time we posted our writing progress. Even though it’s been a while since we’ve posted a writing report (um, November), since that time we’ve almost written the entire last half of the script for the entire comic.
Big news folks. The Animation Academy is starting their online program next week on Wednesday the 8th! It’s going live! Woo! (For those that haven’t been following this blog, or it’s been so long that you’ve forgotten, we’ve been working on the online software for the school for the past several months.)
There’s more info about the school and enrollment after the jump, but here’s the summary:
The reason why Hackberry Hollow is going to rock is because the training program at The Animation Academy rocks. Without it I couldn’t create good character designs.
Okay. I actually don’t have any plans on turning this into a series; I just loved that headline.
Over the past two months I’ve felt really good about attending Animation Nation Night. Let me rephrase that: I always feel good about attending Animation Nation Night, but these past two months have made me feel particularly smug good because two months in a row the guest speaker said that writing the script first before doing anything visual is the best way to go. The two guest speakers in question are Peter Chung (creator/director for Æon Flux and director for Firebreather) and Max Howard (producer/executive for Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Space Jam, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit to name a few).
So what exactly did they say that made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside? Read on for the rest.
Posted by Adam Weber on Friday, April 15, 2011 23:38
As posted previously, we officially resumed work on Hackberry Hollow this last Tuesday. Currently we are re-reading the entire story that we have so far with fresh eyes and marking the entire thing up with notes for things we need to fix, improve or smack each other upside the head for including.
Posted by Adam Weber on Saturday, April 2, 2011 2:17
Greetings loyal blog readers. If you’re reading this post on the day it was created then it’s probably a safe bet that you’re a loyal reader. Glen and I unanimously agreed to wait until the 2nd of April to post this as opposed to yesterday for reasons that are probably self apparent.
Given that the crunch to complete the software for The Animation Academy’s online program is behind us, and I’m officially graduating from college next week, we now have our ducks in a row to resume working on Hackberry Hollow on Tuesday, April 12th. That’ll give me a very badly needed vacation for two days.
Hopefully that’s soon enough to soothe my writing withdrawals.
Posted by Glen Moyes on Sunday, March 6, 2011 2:23
We are just two weeks away until we end our mad dash to launch the software that’s powering The Animation Academy’s online program. Here’s a video podcast that shows what we’ve been doing over the past 3 months (and the coding prior that led up to it), using Gource, a very neat commit log visualization program.
