Whoa! A big chunk is done!

[sky_hye]

I am crushed under the weight of this mega-project, but progress is being made.
The major work is over! I finished the primary graphics with animations over the weekend. Yes, there will be modifications, but only in minor places.

The script is all but final. I am scouring through it now, matching the flow to the newly placed graphics, which look great, by the way. When that gets all neatened up, I will make the final voice-over. That could start in the next few days. My script/voiceover calculator tells me that there are just under two hours of voice over to record. Additional graphics and sound will stretch the dvd out to a little more than 2 hours. Recording the voice over may take a few days.

With final voice over, I will synchronize all of the sound to the graphics and animations. I imagine that will take a few weeks, perhaps a month. Once that's done, I can develop footage for the talking head scenes. I'll probably be out of braces by then. Also, I think I will sew my own outfit for the talking head scenes. That way, I can look snazzy for a low price.

I can't stand how long this is taking, but if I keep going, I'll finish!

Comments

[submarine_bells]

Oh, well done! It's great to hear that you're making good progress with the DVD. I'd been wondering how you were going, not having heard a lot from you lately. It sounds like you're on the home stretch now, for sure!

It's vaguely entertaining to see that our projects continue to run at parallel pacing. :-) I'm just tying up the loose ends of the data prep (a big big task that is great to be just about done with) prior to starting the actual number-crunching and analysis. This is the bit that will give me actual results, and should (hopefully) take a lot less time than the prep did, assuming I've done the prep sufficiently well. And once that is done, it's just (!) a matter of finishing the writing-up, and then I'll be done.

When we're both finished, we should hold a big party! I'll graciously offer my place here in Aus for it - all you'll have to do is trot across the Pacific and attend. :-)))))

[sky_hye]

Yes, we have been on a similar paths -- even when our work was sidelined. That is how or why we met in Second Life. I couldn't get anywhere with my animation due to a stupid bug in Poser. You were waiting for, something, or some things. I was going through my sequences today, checking the voice over against the script and discovered that there are a few more in need of new graphics and animations. I thought I caught everything. But these particular parts are well written, so I can finish voice over on schedule and take care of the graphics later. I hope you don't hit any surprises in your upcoming analysis and writing. Something tells me things will go very well for you. Won't it be great to say we finished one day? I wonder who will finish first? Do you know how much longer for your project?

Let me see, if I had to guess, I think mine could be done in January, 2012. Wild guess.

And about Australia -- I would love to come visit. I think it could happen. When? That part, I just don't know.

I'm sorry to see that you are facing a new surgery. Awful. I hope this will be the last. Terrible luck.