I'm going to run down where we are.
Movies. Most of the look and pacing of the movies was set awhile back.
To that end, the basic movies are done. These include segue's from
location to location, mini story movies, and things like the rest
movie.
We're finishing up the intro movie's pacing and working out the
details of the final movie now. MC Chris Avellone handed out his
desires for the movies and we've thrown in our suggestions. It's all
working out quite nice.
A big surprise is the level of accomplishment by some of the artists
who really had little previous experience making a movie sequence in
Lightwave or AfterFX.
Brian Menze deserves some serious special mention as he really came
up with a powerful movie despite his initial doubt in his ability.
Aaron Meyers has risen amazingly well to the constant barrage of
movie work thrown his way.
Derek Johnson and Dennis Presnell have delivered a fine rest movie as
well as laying out the animatics and finals for nearly all the segue
movies.
Of course MC Scampy Campanella has been plugging away at about a
million finishing touches and tweaks on everything from characters to
spell effects. He's now moseying through the intro movie with us and
putting the finishing touches on his autobiography "Me & Alfred
Hitchcock".
MC Chris Jones is about to join the movie boys after finishing up all
the trap effects. (Nice stuff, wait till you see the blades of death
and ceiling goo).
Besides all that we're winding down on the art front with fixes and
tweaks to all the little stuff that makes a game look swift. Till next
week...
Tim
Artist
tdonley@interplay.com
