Man, am I ever a lazy mutha. I haven\u2019t posted up here in over a week. A week! Sick. Well, this post should make up for it\u2026<\/p>\n
The last time I posted I mentioned that the editing began on the feature Millard and I am working on. Well, the first rough cut of it is now done. I toiled away at the keyboard for quite some time (about 35 hours or so \u2013 it\u2019s like another full-time job!) and produced a 65GB AVI file. All day today I\u2019ve spent converting it to a 500MB MOV file and am currently uploading it for Millard so he can see it. I imaging he\u2019ll look it over for the next couple of days and send me his thoughts on the edits. There\u2019s still a lot to do: hire the voice talent, create the commercial bumpers, and create the teaser. Of course the final feature stills needs to be edited down and the music and stills, etc. will need to be added as well. In due time, I suppose.<\/p>\n
Wednesday Shauna and I went down and picked up Melissa and she stayed with us for several days.<\/p>\n
Friday was our first full D&D session. In attendance was Brad, Diana, Millard, Shauna and myself. Shauna cooked up some Mexican food and I introduced the players to the story (Goodman Games\u2019 Dungeon Crawl Classics #1 \u2013 Idylls of the Rat King) and the party actually made it into the dungeon and is now just beginning the quest. We finished up pretty late \u2013 around midnight or so. I think that we may go ahead an decide to cap the night around 11:00pm or so, as by the time we ended the session, everyone was pretty glassy-eyed. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The only downside was that the miniatures we ordered on Monday hadn\u2019t arrived yet. So, I improvised and grabbed a bag of the little green plastic army men. We got four out, grabbed a Sharpie, and put the first letter of each character\u2019s name on the helmet of the soldiers. I then took a handful of army men and that same marker and colored their helmets totally black \u2013 these were to be our monsters. I then designed 1\u201d x 1\u201d grid paper in Photoshop and printed out several sheets. Using a green highlighter pen, I drew out the landscape each time the party encountered some creeps. All in all, it went well.<\/p>\n