Good morning folks, I hope you're all having a lovely start to your week. I'm back from my week off after finishing Untitled Goose Game. And I'm ready to begin the next project.
Since this one is my choice (alternating between viewer choice and mine) I'd like to see if I can take a stab at Divinity II again. I'd really like to see if I can get the entire series complete at some point in the nebulous future.
2023-11-07 10:46:22 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everybody. Hope you're having a smashing weekend. As always, thank you for your extreme patience with me. I do feel as though I take the piss sometimes. But after a particularly lengthy quality-assurance process, I've managed to finish Random Untitled Goose Game bullshittery. Made from the two live-streams available on the closet.
The video can be found here for those inter...
2023-10-21 15:26:07 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. So I've had about 11 weeks on this pretty lengthy bullshittery project. And I've completed the second half. I'd pitched about 10 weeks for this bullshittery, so something of an overshoot, sorry.
Still a bit to go before it's out of the door though. It's fully edited but not yet polished.
It needs to go through it's own quality assurance process before it's ready for viewing, though thankfully the first half is already sorted. Now to do...
2023-10-03 22:03:09 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon folks. I've managed to finish the first half of Untitled Gooseshittery. It's available above for those interested.
The whole timeline is broken up into 6 individual puzzle areas like this:
So this edit is the first 3 boxes:
- Intro Lake
- The Groundskeeper
- The Village Stree...
2023-09-06 13:49:14 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everyone, hope you're doing well. So I've had 6 weeks on Untitled Goose Game bullshittery and here's a breakdown on what I'm doing:
- Week 1 & 2 - Cutting together the whole 36 minute video. Taking extra time to make sure the cut is final. As I was worried about unnecessary parts getting pulled into keyframing.
- Week 3, 4 and 5 - Animating (keyframing) up to the halfway mark of 17 minutes. M...
2023-08-28 23:05:32 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon all. It's currently the end of week 4 of 10 on Random Gooseshittery. And I've finished about 11 minutes of 36. Here's a shot of the timeline:
I plan to reach the halfway mark of 18 minutes at the end of next week. And then take some time to polish what's behind the playhead? Perhaps even getting it to a point where it can be half released on Patr...
2023-08-12 19:02:58 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon all. It's been a week since the last post. Here's another update on progress.
I've finished cutting together the bullshittery. It exists in non-text form with lots of crude placeholder graphics. And its ready to go into full animation keyframing. A slow process that will see about 5 minutes per week.
The total video duration is 36 minutes. So 7 weeks. Yikes.
2023-07-30 14:40:56 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon all, I hope you've had a lovely week.
I've been super busy over here. And have made a good start on what's to be the next Youtube project - Untitled Goose Game. Thank you for voting in the polls last week. I've been thrilled to sink my teeth into this.
On that front, my objective is to try and 2023-07-22 14:16:12 +0000 UTC
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Greetings folks. And to the new Patrons joining since the Holdfast bullshittery, welcome. With that last project complete, I need to start thinking about the next one. And getting your thoughts on what I should focus on.
Traditionally I like to alternate between audience polls and my selection. And since Holdfast was one of mine, it's collectively your turn.
Therefore please have a look at the poll beneath this post. (Also please know that I'll combine both the po...
2023-07-10 18:13:51 +0000 UTC
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Good evening all. I think I've managed to complete the latest bullshittery? There's a couple of tweaks here and there. But it should be ready for viewing if you're interested?
Random Holdfast: Nations at War Bullshittery (part 2) - https://youtu.be/JwRzwchuV1c
Thanks for being so very patient with me. And also many thanks to those who volunteered to v...
2023-07-06 19:18:51 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. Hope you're all doing well. Another update on the Holdfast bullshittery.
So it's the start of the 6th week of work. Quite a bit longer than I was hoping I'm afraid. Sorry about that. It's been due to distractions in the starting weeks, surprisingly complex individual scenes (in places) and rendering complications.
But the project is currently in phase 2 editing/QA sweeping. Meaning it's complete/watchable. But the final pol...
2023-06-26 21:40:58 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. Alas this won't be a very fascinating update. As all I've really got to say is "editing continues on Holdfast Bullshittery part 2".
I've reached the 5:05 minute mark out of about 10:00 minutes. Not as far as I was hoping, as I wanted to be in the 7th minute by now. But editing work continues.
Here's a screenshot of the timeline in Adobe Premiere.
2023-06-06 18:43:55 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks. I hope you've all had a lovely weekend and a smooth start to your week. An update on how last weeks' pre-production work went.
I said that the Holdfast Nations at War Master file had quite a lot of livestreams to process. And that is very much still the case. Despite a full week going through them. There's something like 135 livestreams awaiting processing, down from something like 170.
That being said...
2023-05-22 19:17:27 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everybody. And a sincere welcome to the new patrons. Thank you for being here. And thank you everybody for being so complimentary about the last video-essay. I'm glad people have been enjoying it.
Right now though, I'm eager to climb back into the driving seat and get started with the next project - this time a bullshittery. At least something easier to take the edge off that last edit.
It's been a while since Holdfast received some love. So over the weekend I moved...
2023-05-15 18:43:15 +0000 UTC
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So this is the follow-up post concerning the last week of rendering. If you're looking for the link to the latest video, please see above.
What a challenging week its been. Last Friday I was able to clear all of 100 ish issues on the timeline as part of the quality-assurance checking for the entire video. Leaving me confident that the video was finished. And all I had to do was render it over the weekend.
2023-05-03 15:17:47 +0000 UTC
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Good evening all. I've completed the latest Youtube video. At least in 720p resolution. For those interested you can find it here: https://youtu.be/mlBYO_dDARc
I plan to do a much more detailed Patreon post tomorrow. It's getting a bit late tonight. And I'd like to get this video out in front of Patrons asap. I can go into the nitty-gritty of the process (with gifs) tomorrow:
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2023-05-02 22:13:44 +0000 UTC
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Just a very quick update:
- Using the previously described pre-rendering method, I've been able to successfully repair all 24 of the segments of the project.
- On the following day I was able to successfully render the entire video, albeit at one quarter resolution. But that's still an important success. As it tells me there's nothing in the timeline that's causing a critical stoppage.
- I've also swept through the entire video on a fu...
2023-04-21 18:40:18 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon folks. Last post I predicted that I'd get the final segment - segment 24/24 - complete within that two week stretch. And on that front I largely succeeded. I was able to complete the video by last Friday.
I don't want to use the word "finished" because I know there's some bits in there I want to improve. But for now, yay.
The next thing is ...
2023-04-18 19:46:54 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. I hope you're all doing smashingly.
So it's been a very long road on this project. But finally the end is in sight. Here is a shot of the full Premiere timeline. 3 hour and 15 minutes.
For the last few weeks I've been working to squash the numerous blockers that have been built up. A process has that been successful. Leaving the two largest at the start of last...
2023-04-06 19:05:41 +0000 UTC
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Good morning everybody. I hope you're doing well. Holy heck things have been busy last week.
Last update I said that there were 14 blockers stopping this video from going out the door. There are now 7 blockers remaining. In what is proving to be a frustrating grind. Where the end looks so close and yet is being hamstrung by the difficulty of the remaining tasks.
This last weeks activity has been very interesting though. As I've worked to clear blocker number 10. A...
2023-03-15 10:49:09 +0000 UTC
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Good evening folks, I hope you're doing well. Another update for you on this video-essay front. Currently grinding to squeeze this out the door.
Grind is absolutely what it feels like. The video is in a stage I'm calling the"battle of the blockers". Meaning the overwhelming majority of the video is complete. The audio is balanced, the points are in the right places - but there are 14 blocker issues that collectively make it incomplete..
Solving them requires knuck...
2023-03-02 20:36:16 +0000 UTC
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Super quick post so it's clear what I'm currently up to.
With the four parts of video in WIP form, my current goal revolves around polishing and rework to try and get this video on the channel.
Have as look at this gif below and note the timestamps to the left side:
This is an example list of the issues I'm encountering.
Each morning I'm rendering the video in...
2023-02-15 19:55:04 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. Hope you're all doing well.
Over here I've managed to push the 4th (and final) piece of this video-essay over the finish line. Once again thank you for your extraordinary patience. You've all been amazing. Here's a link to the test render.
https://youtu.be/xMLWM1iOK3E
So these are parts 20, 21, 22 and 23 (of 24). Allowing me to render parts
2023-02-07 21:35:26 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everyone. I hope you're all having a lovely weekend.
In the last update, I said I was working on the tail-end of this project, attempting to tighten some elements of the script that I felt were undercooked. Recording them overnight and then cutting the audio by day. That process is near complete. It's really just the final conclusion remarks that remain. Which are only a few hundreds words and are just awaiting cutting and adding to the end.
Then, in audio form at l...
2023-01-14 15:29:19 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year everybody. I hope you've all had a lovely one!
Here in the UK it was absolutely tipping it down. So I was very much staying indoors away from all that wet nonsense. With Lulu flopped on her comfy sofa whilst I did a bit of late night Kerbal. A cosy one indeed :)
So I've managed to finish
2023-01-01 16:07:33 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everybody. Hope you're all doing well on the run up to Christmas.
I've finished another chunk of this video-essay project for The Forest. Thank you for being so very patient with me. The rendered links can be found below for parts 1 and 2.
The eventual plan is to combine it all into a single video. So apologies for the (potentially jarring) transition between the two. I've not yet balanced the audio across the entire project.
Part 1 -...
2022-12-19 18:03:42 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. So it's week 13 on progress on The Forest video essay. Here's how things are going:
- Week 11 - Completion of the 1st hour render.
- Week 12 (last week) - Audio recording of sections 14 to 19 (of 24). Slowed by some rework of the script.
- Week 13 (this week) - Filling in the visuals for this section.
Here's a ...
2022-11-28 20:15:09 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon everybody. So now that it's the next day, a proper update for you all. Once again thank you for being so patient with my glacial progress. Here's a link to the work-in-progress render:
https://youtu.be/FbNTfCJQkdg
So a breakdown on time:
- Week 8 - Recording audio for minutes 30 to 60. Segments 7
2022-11-16 17:36:20 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody hope you're well. I've managed to complete the latest work-in-progress test render for The Forest video-essay.
https://youtu.be/FbNTfCJQkdg
Apologies for not having it sorted by Friday. There was way too much to fix. And these render times are getting a bit mental.
I'll come back with a proper post tomorrow with how it's all going. As it's pu...
2022-11-15 23:39:13 +0000 UTC
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Good evening everybody. Hope you're all doing well and have had a nice Halloween.
Once again, thank you for being so very patient with me. I know this project is a unusually lengthy. It's week 9 on The Forest video-essay here's a breakdown on progress:
- Week 8 (last week) - Recording audio for minutes 30 to 60. Segments 7 to 13 (of 24)
- Week 9 (this week) - Adding the visual component...
2022-11-01 19:10:26 +0000 UTC
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