The Stranger episode 4 up

Here it is. Enjoy!

The Stranger will change

I'm stuck at the script of episode 5. I'm not digging my story anymore as it's not as strong as the start.
Things randomly happen and it doesn't connect with the new ending I had in mind. Also my teacher raised questions at the end of my story.

Moments will stay the same, only Deon's motives will change and so the story will be rewritten starting from episode 5.

Episode 4 is halfway done! And I'm very happy with how it turned out so far.
The end shouldn't take so long to mix, only still have to compose a song probably and record some sound effects.

The Stranger episode 4

Aiming to have this one done on new years day! I have nearly all lines, only need one extra line at the end. Most songs are ready, so only thing I have to do is mixing.
Hopefully Sony vegas is nice to me and doesn't screw up, but I learnt to make more renders just in case.

So I hope I will have it done in two days, if not.. it will at least be up this week! 

No motivation =(

I'm sorry guys that it takes so long with the projects.
I'm in the middle of my school project, but it drains my energy.
Whenever I am home I only think about my abroad internship which I do in february -> I still have so much to arrange (visa, student loan, insurances) and the teachers don't help much either =.= (they ignore my messages) so I'm kind of stressing already.

I dunno why this motivation problem persists, but I hope to be back in the game quickly. In two weeks I have fall break so I hope I feel much better then and can release episode 3! =)

The Stranger episode 3 preview!

First 2 minutes of episode 3. The complete episode will be about 9-11 minutes (not sure yet)

Accepted Sony vegas's crash

I'm okay with losing half of the episode now. This means I can balance the audio more of that part and I realized it shouldn't take that long as I have an example to follow exactly, so it's only recreating.

I do have a horrible cold now though, that kept me away from my laptop. It's still not over (I actually feel sicker than before) so I can not work on the Stranger just yet. I think somewhere next week! =)

Stay tuned. I could upload a preview so there is already something to see. Should I? Yes, no? =P
Maybe the first minute or so. =D


Edit: Uploading a preview from the first 90 seconds really soon. I only notcied that sony vegas starts crashing again while I'm in a new document and only have 8 files opened. I think the corrupted rendered thing is clashing with sony vegas or one of my voice actor's files is not working properly o.o Guess I'll change the format in audacity in order to prevent it

Unlucky with sony vegas

Sony vegas hates me! I managed to work through its crashes but now the crashes makes working on episode 3 impossible =( It crashes after 10 seconds and even crashes during rendering. Even if he survives the rendering or anything then it messes up all audio and sound effects and mutes certain pieces randomly afterwards which makes it impossible to continue with.

I managed to render the 9 minutes I have now in two parts (THANK GOD!), but this does mean I can't edit the volumes of the voices or sound effects anymore =( if something is unbalanced in the end, then sorry about that

The Stranger - episode 3 nearly done!

I've got all lines in! Thanks to the understudy for Raina. She sent in her lines within a week ^^
So, all I have to do now is mix the last intense scene, record a few sound effects, add footsteps and compose music for the scenes that needs it and done!
Next to that I have asked for a few redo's, so I hope to get those soon as well.

I don't know when it'll be released but it will be at least this month ^^

The Stranger is back

We are back! Episode 3 will be released in a few weeks.
The understudy for Raina will step in for episode 3 and then the original voice actress will return for episode 4 and onwards ^-^

Regarding episode 3

It's sadly on hold for now. The voice actress for Raina has to deal with her personal life and thus she is taking a small break from voice acting. So we'll wait for her until she is ready to send in lines. It's very unfortunate and I'm very sorry to the people who have been waiting on episode 3 , especially the cast from episode 3.

In the meantime some people have sent in their lines already for episode 4. Once Raina is back, I hope we can pick up the pace ^-^

So, yeah.. other update. Don't have to wait for my music  packs anymore. Got them and installed them succesfully, so when I have all the lines I'll work on the music ASAP.

Thanks for your patience guys,

Waiting for stuff to arrive

Waiting for a new mouse.. I ordered one but it took longer than expected. My previous one died in 1 month already... It should be here tomorrow I hope, but I just can't mix without a mouse x.x So I haven't mixed anything yet. Only the previously on which I made before. Makes me feel bad as some voice actors rushed to get their lines in.
Also I am waiting for an elicencer so I can finally use my new cubase for the music and i'm waiting on my new east west packs for the instruments. And you can guess, those are delayed =.= With one or two weeks.
Next to that I'm waiting for lines from Raina as her voice actress needed more time due to some things. Don't know when those will be in.
So the episode will probably be delayed with 1 -2 weeks!
When I have everything in I'll try to get it done as fast as I can =)

The Stranger - episode 2 up!

Episode 2 - halfway done

I'm on a roll xD been working on the project for hours now and just can't stop. More than half of the lines are in and I have added in two soundtracks. At the moment I have 7 minutes done.
Still need to make another song for the moment I am at now, but I'm surprised to see it go so smoothly! I have also found a better sound effects pack for footsteps, so they sound better for this episode.

Can't wait to finish it. The plot is finally going somewhere =P

Episode 2 - on it's way

Got all lines in! So it's time to mix! Will try to work on it every day, maybe at night or at daytime and the rest of the time I will have to draw. It doesn't hurry up sadly as I also have trips to school every now and then and documents to write.
But I predict episode 2 to be done soon. At least all voices will be in and sfx soon. It only depends on the music -> Don't know how long it takes and how many songs will I compose?

Shot out of the visual episode

Here is shot 4 out of the visual episode. It shows from left to right: Alan, Pete, Raina and Steve.
It's not realistic, but can't help to add in a few shadows xD The lighting will be done whenever I have most things finished. So then I will add the shadows and such and polish the drawings.(hair, background and such)
50 more shots to go. lol

In the visual episodes nothing fancy will happen other than the background and characters will pan to a certain way or will be zoomed in. So that you still have the motion going on and don't look at a still shot.

Deadline in 3 weeks

Aye, I thought I would have more time. I thought I could work on projects till halfway July.
But I heard yesterday it has to be rated before june 28th. BEFORE...  which means the project has to be finished even before that x.x
Now, what's my project? Full body character designs for The stranger (The main characters, the extra's will be drawn in simpler styles) plus a visual episode 1. I still have to start as I'm choosing a different animation method now. (no animation at all, just drawings)

Two and half weeks left... Bummer, but it does mean I'll be updating more frequently with character designs.

Episode 2 is on it's way. Received Raina's lines and the other two voice actors will send them in soon.
Shouldn't have procrastinated with drawing ^^;;

The stranger - episode 1 visual style

>.> So far didn't do much yet on the visual episode. Before wednesday I have to have a storyboard finished plus designs of 1 or 2 characters and 1 environment in the style I want to attempt.

I only have Raina drawn in this style which may be the style I'm using. Might be even get simplified as I have no idea how the type of animation work I am planning to do XD

More to come in a few days ^^

The Stranger - episode 1!

Here it is!

Episode 1 - will be uploaded this week!

Episode 1 is coming along nicely. I showed it to a teacher who specialized in audio and he thought it was good so far! The only thing I had to change were the footstep sound effects as it kept repeating 2 steps and that was noticable. I'm really happy he liked it as it's my first time making something like this =D
He also said it was worth 9 points for school! Kaching... xD

So yes, keep an eye out. Wednesday I'll have a talk about making episode 1 visual with a teacher who is specialized in film / visual thingies. I first want to await that talk before I upload it ^-^ Who knows he has some other handy pointers.

Episode 1 - progress

I have almost all lines! There is one missing so far from Deon, but that's okay as it doesn't stop me from mixing =D

All lines (except that missing one) are in the project and now I am adding the sound effects. The pace is quite slow now of the episode so will speed things up as well.

Don't know when I'll have the mixing finished. At least this week I hope, but before I can show the project to my test team I need to have approval of my tutor x.x because if I don't get any approval the test team doesn't have to answer a lot of tedious questions.XD Then they can just listen and write things down that has to be changed.