Starting up again on 4/12

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.

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Hackberry Hollow Podcast #5

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.

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Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4 Part 3

Posted by Glen Moyes on Friday, February 4, 2011 2:00

And finally Part 3 of the podcast.

>> Download Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4: The Origins of Lumaglyph – Part 3

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Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4 Part 2

Posted by Glen Moyes on Friday, January 28, 2011 1:55

And here’s Part 2 of the podcast. Enjoy!

>> Download Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4: The Origins of Lumaglyph – Part 2

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Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4 Part 1

Posted by Glen Moyes on Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:00

We recorded a podcast last week that ended up being quite a doosey. Over the next few weeks we’ll be releasing the podcast in 3 parts, starting this week.

>> Download Hackberry Hollow Podcast #4: The Origins of Lumaglyph – Part 1

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2 Months Left

Posted by Glen Moyes on Saturday, January 8, 2011 1:37

We are counting down to the launch of The Animation Academy going online. Now it’s just two months away.

In other news, Adam got some new audio recording hardware. I used a different production technique during our last podcast that improved the overall audio quality, but also demonstrated the huge gap in quality between my recording hardware and Adam’s. As of today that was fixed.

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Best Christmas Present Ever

Posted by Glen Moyes on Saturday, December 25, 2010 14:30

A real-life voodoo plushie!

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Hackberry Hollow Podcast #3

Posted by Glen Moyes on Friday, December 24, 2010 22:24

Discussing other people’s work is something we do quite a lot as an exercise in story writing. An important aspect of this exercise is to discuss what works, in addition to what doesn’t, and to try and come up with solutions to those problems.

>> Download Hackberry Hollow Podcast #3: Tron Legacy

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The Animation Academy Goes Online

Posted by Glen Moyes on Saturday, December 11, 2010 3:23

Yes, this is the announcement.

Founded by Charles Zembillas in 1998 (character designer for Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Jak and Daxter), The Animation Academy is an excellent training program for production design in animation, and coming up in March The Animation Academy will be going online.

What does that mean for Hackberry Hollow? Read more to find out.

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And the Announcement is…

Posted by Glen Moyes on Saturday, December 4, 2010 4:20

…delayed until Monday, from what I’ve been told. The announcement has actually already been announced publicly, just not on the Internet yet so we are still going to wait until then.

By the way, did you know our post last week was our 100th blog post? Neither did we, and we used it on an announcement announcing an impending announcement. What a waste!

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