~EricMor

Recently, i was rendering fully animated sequences to my game, and making it happen big time here, when a friend of mine called in inviting me to help in the production of a short movie from a sci-fi book called the VILLIKON CRONICHLES.
The movie has been shot already, and the creative pos-production started with all volunteer working, and i was invited to participate.
My first 'audiction' was the modeling of a larg monster called the SANDWHALE, wich i did quite fast and almost without referneces - the producers liked the result and now i'm charge of the modeling and animation of monsters, robots, spaceships, battles, etc.
Pity, i can't show none here while the production isn't over (signed a contract of discretion) but the models aren't half bad
How much it will take to finish? That's what i'm curious about: from the 7 needed models for the sequence i'm charge off, 2 models were been assembled already, one approved and one being render as i type this, so my guess is more two months for the initial animations to begin.
As soon as i receive clearence, i'll post the cinematics and models here in DA

Another puppy died: it was looking sick in the saturday when i came to feed and clean the place, and me and my father returned there in the sunday to take her to the vet... but it was too late.
I cryed more than i expected: had to dig up a hole an bury her near the spot where i found her dead.
She had 4 months, was beautiful and lively - the next in the line for adoption, since her sister - who looked much like her - was the last to be adopted.
Besides her, only the two mothers an two sisters where left there - one presenting the very simptons of sickness she had, wich i promptly brought back to my current home to treat her.
They were poisoned with something - maybe a poisonous leaf from that yard.
This one's all better now.
Both mother and the last sister were also looking healthy, so i didn't worryed with them.
Finally managed to add cutsenes in my RPG game: just image swap with intervals. Animation get's a bit slow, but it's better than nothing... was assembling the next cutscene with a ton of characters in the screen, but it seems that 5 million polys can't be rendered safely in my machine (crashed the last two times i tryied, even after adding 1 giga of extra RAM), so i have to think of something.
Prolly the grass fault - i'll switch those heavy grass with something lighter.

Okay, the year is drawing to an end, and i didn't finish the job i was SUPPOSED to do right in the beggining of it.
I'll be creating a fórum and a official site for this game, and all of my work and projects.
I've been drifting from my game development project to animated CG cartoon ones - the fastest result shall became my main priority, since TIME is now my biggest enemy.
Don't need to mention that i didn't had time to post anything, but frankly idon't WANT to post the stuff i've been doing... is all but a buncha of rendered tests, and i'd need to fix them to post.
I feel like an amateur...
The purpose of that simple 2D engine was to give me flexibility to assemble a good game fast, but for some reason i wasn't feeling well to keep with this engine because of it's limitations, hence the looooooooong time to assemble it.
The dogs are growing all off-donation size, and there are 5 left to donate, so i must be quick and spread some more adds of puppy donation around here.
I also achieved only few results lately, most because of those dogs, they eat up 5 - 8 hours of a working day after tuesday, so i'll be solving the dog's problem first.
Hopefully, i'll be able to post some stuff and give links to my sites and forums as soon everthing's ready. (knocks on wood)
Stay tuned...

Okay, jornal update. From the 16 puppies for donation, we brought 4 home to easy donate them for some people, while the other 12 were left in the empty house.
From there, 5 puppies have been donated, one form here and four from the house, leaving 8 puppies for donation.
We grow attached to them at each passing day, so we NEED to donate they fast or we'll get stuck with dogs, lol.
The constant travels to take care of them just eat away my time and disposition to do stuff... had to cancel gym for now, maybe i'lll be back to it next year.
Haven't been had any time to make a movie for DA or any other site, but i did slaped together the beta of my new game package... the box has two sizes and i printed it in a local graphic shop for 20 USD, just to see how it would look like.

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Now all it need is it for me to finish it already!
Seems like i should try slapping together some hand-made 2D art for the box and the game... that's will force me to buy another scanner/printer, since mine died two years ago.
Now, the BAD news: my own game is crashing in my computer! In any big fight scene, the game shrinks the screen and crashes... that doesn't happen with in my friends computer, so obviously it's time to upgrade my PC. SIGHT... i HATE to swap computers: the old one is left around occupying space, all the pain of reinstallinng EVERTHING... aaaaghhh.
But if i'm serious with this project, that's something i'll HAVE to do.
Well... let's GO...

Well, let's try and update this Journal. gonne to a comic convention in a art college this saturday with friends, and tried to make a 12 page comic in 12 hours... we get there at 6:00 PM when the time limit was up to 9:00, so you guess i wasn''t able to do anything but a raft_storyboard comprised o 4 pages.
After that, my friend missed the bus and sleep over my apartment, then we passed the whole sunday watching "Irresponsible Captain Taylor"... during 8 hours straight (only more three hours tho finishing watching the whole show).
The pippies all have grow and are ready to be adopted, thing is... nobody want a dog around here nowadays.
There's a BIG chance of all them , including the mothers, to go to the state pound and be immediatly sacrificed.
Course, they have to pass over my dead body first, but other than that, i don't know what to do if we can't fin people to adopt them... animals ONG around here are a problem, i'll try a trick this friend of mine suggested: place an add in the "mercado livre" (a kind of brazilian E-Bay) and 'sell' the puppies for USD$0,50 each... mybe it will work! I have just save another one from a hole recently (HE was BURIED TO THE NECK!!!), so i better hurry.
In other news: just made the 'beta' DVD box cover of my game, it came out cool, i think. Will post it in my scraps later. The game now runs direcly from the DVD and saves into the HD, just like a videogame... no install needed. I'll start speeding things up with it as soon as i can.
Also: Deviant Art accepeted me as a FILM MAKER and now i can submit Deviant FIlms!
Thing is, since EVEN the music must be mine, i'll have to create something entirely new to post in FILM category... maybe a beta Opening o my game, who knows.
My Audio set here sucks, so the music won't be any good either... we'll see.