Easter Sunday was a time for family and to celebrate the ressurection, and so I rested from animation for one day.
On Easter Monday, over 40 seconds of animation was placed into the video. According to the one page of script = one minute, I'm within 3 minutes of the end of the episode, excluding the closing credits, which don't take long to produce.
While polishing up a few of the frames, anf by that I mean simply reducing lighting variance and adjusting frames that aren't stable, I will finally get that arrangement mastered for the organist in the church scene, one of a couple pieces of audio still not recorded. I'll insert that as I insert the sound effects. I expect to use more sounds that episodes 1 and 2 combined! There's also the laugh track, which is only in the first six minutes so far. My library includes over 300 laughs, almost all of them taken from three seasons of "Everybody Loves Raymond". They were all painstakingly edited and processed to be as clean as possible. I don't think the sound work will require over a week's time. It all rides on how long the simultaneous frame fixing takes.
I'll be relieved to finish this episode, as it took much longer than expected, and it's really episode 4 that I want to do. I honestly think that my writing skills improved around that time. In a self-assessment, I think episodes 4-6 are funnier and have more engaging plot lines than 1-3 (2 is my favorite in the "Trilogy"). This is perfect, as it matches where my new camera comes into play! I hope you tune in beyond episode 3, and let me know if you also think episode 4 shows an improvement!
A few other things to do are to make the teaser commercial, and after posting, putting together the DVD. One of the many extras on the DVD includes a projected commentary track with myself and Eric Kutepow, the voice of Mark Manchester. The Epiosde 2 DVD has a really awesome commentary track with Mary Charles (Brick 7) and I discussing the show's production. She's just as awesome in the commentary as she is as Angela! There are tons of other extras as well. LMK if you want an episode 2 DVD.
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