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Convention stuff
Well, I guess everyone else is writing about their convention experiences so I should too. Though to be honest I didn't get to see/do much the whole weekend.
I spent my days up to the convention working on animation for the TV channel and putting together a DVD of my animation for sale. A heck of a lot of work honestly. Anyhow, we got there at about 8PM on Friday.
I'm afraid I wasn't nearly as much help to FCTV this year as I was last. Dunno. things seemed too disorganized for me to really pick out a point and say 'I can help here.' I also wasn't trained on the station equipment or the good cameras so I was limited to basic editing. The commercials I did this year were eh. You can see some of them at http://circle.twu.net/FCTV/2004.html but largely they're recycled projects. A finished version of the bunny animation is there as is the terribly frightening strata clay experiement. This project was a complete disaster and after I did the animation and had spent so much time on it, the only thing I could do was deliberately make it so bad that it'd be sorta good in its badness. Hence the poetry and music. :)
The convention itself I was running around a heck of a lot and didn't get to do/see most of the things I'd have liked to. I did manage to dress decently the entire weekend and was described as 'retro punk', 'old skool punk', and 'steam punk' and I got invited to the League of Evil Geniuses, so that was sorta nifty in a geeky way. :)
I sold 16 DVDs which turned a small profit. Though lest it go to my head I'd wager that at least half of those sales were due to the Godzilla battle and not my animation. :/ On a related note, I learned apple-script and wrote the equivalent of a 'play all' to run in a loop on the computer at the convention.
The animation panel was somewhere between interesting and terrifying.
We had to stall because the display equipment wasn't set up so I had to sit on a stage and speak to a large audience of people with Smudge and one of the Guests of Honor (Grant Freckelton). Unnerving. All in all though it went pretty well. People laughed in the right places on my film and oh-no'd where they were supposed to and everything else. They also REALLY seemed to like WireHead. Woo. :}
I may possibly be the ONLY person who was happy Ghost Warrior wasn't finished. Maybe happy isn't the right word since I was interested in seeing it, but relieved. My animation didn't look that bad. Smudge had done some cleanup work on her animation but it still had the same audio so in some way. Anyhow, it turned out to be a lot of fun and made me feel pretty decent. :)
Hmm. What else happened? ... I injured myself limbo-dancing... under the tail of a costume... That is just wrong on so many levels.
I think I'll quit this post now before I get in more trouble.
I spent my days up to the convention working on animation for the TV channel and putting together a DVD of my animation for sale. A heck of a lot of work honestly. Anyhow, we got there at about 8PM on Friday.
I'm afraid I wasn't nearly as much help to FCTV this year as I was last. Dunno. things seemed too disorganized for me to really pick out a point and say 'I can help here.' I also wasn't trained on the station equipment or the good cameras so I was limited to basic editing. The commercials I did this year were eh. You can see some of them at http://circle.twu.net/FCTV/2004.html but largely they're recycled projects. A finished version of the bunny animation is there as is the terribly frightening strata clay experiement. This project was a complete disaster and after I did the animation and had spent so much time on it, the only thing I could do was deliberately make it so bad that it'd be sorta good in its badness. Hence the poetry and music. :)
The convention itself I was running around a heck of a lot and didn't get to do/see most of the things I'd have liked to. I did manage to dress decently the entire weekend and was described as 'retro punk', 'old skool punk', and 'steam punk' and I got invited to the League of Evil Geniuses, so that was sorta nifty in a geeky way. :)
I sold 16 DVDs which turned a small profit. Though lest it go to my head I'd wager that at least half of those sales were due to the Godzilla battle and not my animation. :/ On a related note, I learned apple-script and wrote the equivalent of a 'play all' to run in a loop on the computer at the convention.
The animation panel was somewhere between interesting and terrifying.
We had to stall because the display equipment wasn't set up so I had to sit on a stage and speak to a large audience of people with Smudge and one of the Guests of Honor (Grant Freckelton). Unnerving. All in all though it went pretty well. People laughed in the right places on my film and oh-no'd where they were supposed to and everything else. They also REALLY seemed to like WireHead. Woo. :}
I may possibly be the ONLY person who was happy Ghost Warrior wasn't finished. Maybe happy isn't the right word since I was interested in seeing it, but relieved. My animation didn't look that bad. Smudge had done some cleanup work on her animation but it still had the same audio so in some way. Anyhow, it turned out to be a lot of fun and made me feel pretty decent. :)
Hmm. What else happened? ... I injured myself limbo-dancing... under the tail of a costume... That is just wrong on so many levels.
I think I'll quit this post now before I get in more trouble.