Rant #024 Wednesday, March 10, 2004

The Next Step

Page 64 will go up this weekend; I've been busy with planning out some future projects.

One of said future projects includes some animation; which I have been experimenting with using Adobe Photoshop as the cell development environment, and Ulead Media Studio 6 as the animation / compositing environment. Doing some relatively decent quality animation is possible, but time consuming.

My ultimate plan? To create a 2214 music video / trailer, preferably 1.5 to 2 minutes in length. Creating the art would certainly be possible within the span of a year; devoting enough time to it around the regular comic updates and of course the full-time job, but I really need to find some people who are willing to do some "in-betweening".

Those of you who are familiar with animation probably know what in-betweening is. For those out there who don't know, it's where you have the frames in-between the "key" frames (main art for the animation, done by the main artist) drawn by people who specialize in matching the key frame art but creating "halfway" points in the animation between the key frames. I know I didn't phrase that very well at all ?_?

In short, though, if any artists out there want to take part in helping create an original short bit of exciting animation, I certainly would be grateful for any help. At the moment, I'm still organizing the scripting for the animation, and getting ideas for the original music that will go along with it, which will be finished once it's time to put together the final edited sequence.

An interesting side effect of working on an animation project is that lots of artwork will be produced when creating the frames, some of which will be added to this site's galleries.

More details on this as they come.