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Galneda
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I've done animatics for Cyanide & Happiness, Purgatony, and WWE Storytime! I'm also a voice actor that's performed roles in One Piece, Gundam: Witch from Mercury, & Smite!
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Geoff Galneda @Galneda

Age 36, Male

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Collin College

Dallas, TX

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Zone of the Awesome update 12/28/08

Posted by Galneda - December 28th, 2008


Hmm...well, here we are. After a few hangouts with long-time friends I haven't seen in months, holidays, sleep-deprived staring into space, and even a power-outage, I've come to this solution to help me out with meeting my deadline.

Start chopping off unnecessary scenes.

The first one that went was previously the longest bit of lip-syncing the flash featured.

Leo catches his breath after literally falling into Jehuty's cockpit and says (direct quote)
"Hmm...wow...you'd think something as expensive, dangerous, and classified like this thing would be a little bit harder getting into...Ha! Let alone turn...
(accidentally kicks the dashboard, activating it)
uh...on?"

This has been replaced with NOTHING saving me a couple of seconds of painstaking lip-syncing and body movements.

PLUS as mentioned in the previous news post, Leo running down the hall while yelling.

After just getting chased by a Raptor, he runs down a corridor and shouts (direct quote)
(running down a hall)
"OH GOD! I COULD REALLY GO FOR A 'DEUS EX MACHINA' RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
(stops in bewilderment)
er...
(long shot of him looking at Jehuty, awestruck)
Holy shit!"

This is going to be replaced with:
(long shot of him looking at Jehuty, awestruck)
"OH MY FUCKING GOD, A GIANT ROBUT!"

Genius.

-The debris falling around the hangar: not going to be a problem.
-The complicated 48-framed Jehuty vs. Raptor scene: difficult, but necessary.
-Leo's argument with Hideo Kojima: necessary and average complexity.
-The closing scene: it could possibly be revised down...if there are any re-writes, I gotta get Jennifer Johnson to record again, which shouldn't be a problem, but as it stands, I might leave it completely intact.

Other than those dashes above, and lengthening the "OMFG A GIANT ROBUT" scene, by making these cuts, I've lifted a couple of heavy stones that were weighing down my back.

I just hope I made the right choice.

...No, fuck that...someone once told me to ignore the voice of doubt to achieve success.

This shit is gonna rock.

There's still so much of the animatic portion I haven't even touched. And with going over and clothing Pinky all throughout...it all seems kind-of overwhelming.

The only other corner I'm considering cutting at this point are trading in ADA's EQ bar lip-sync with three lines to indicate speech. I did it in the animatic as a lazy way to indicate it's ADA who should be talking in the scene, and now I'm starting to think about just coloring in said scenes and touching up a few details at most, but not worrying about setting up her EQ bar on the dashboard to match what she's saying.

That'll buy me some more time for work, considering a good 1/3rd of the scenes that are left now are of ADA talking,

Now I know how Egoraptor feels. XD

Zone of the Awesome update 12/28/08


Comments

Heheh, this sounds brilliant! Can't wait ;) GOOD LUCK! Also mate, you should join my collab, I'd love you to be in it!

<a href="http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1010542/1">http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1 010542/1</a>

Just set yourself this deadline :

1 hour of work every day. Then you will get somewhere slowly!