Weekend Log: 2015.10.25

Greetings, everyone.

Less than a week left until another month ends. I've been having thoughts about events correlating with the time period, but I'll get to that later.

Not much to say about Dokuroshima. As always, more progress is made, and as I said earlier, I thought about making my own original soundtrack for it; If I finish the animation too late to come up with the music, or if the music is made but it sounds like shit, I'll just use something from the Audio Portal to avoid yet another delay. I think the development hell for this project, a.k.a. most of 2015, was enough.

As for the Halloween short, I went further on in as well. In fact, it is possible to have it completed in a day or two, however I think it still gonna be on Newgrounds on Halloween. I might have it up early on YouTube though since I've been thinking about actually doing something with the channel instead of it just being a video dump. Perhaps earlier release will be a nice little experiment, but that's just my opinion.

And now for a random piece of text.

So you still haven't forgot about what I said about my time/event correlation hypothesis. Yes, I do realize events actually depend on actions and circumstances, and not time periods.

Why did I come up with the crap? I was bored. You know, the same reason for the existence of roughly 80% of creepypastas. If you prefer things that make logical sense, you may skip it.

And the hypothesis goes lime this: Even years (2010, 2012, 2014, etc.) are the active years, while the Odd years (2011, 2013, 2015, etc.) are the passive ones. What does that mean?  Well, the active ones are the years that are eventful and you actually need to react in order to avoid some things while achieving other ones. Whilst the passive years are the years of growth, when you grow and recharge before you act much further. Also, it depends on the person which years are active, so events for people on odd years don't topple the hypothesis.

Anyhoe, I hope this new text addition to the log doesn't stick out like an unnecessary text tumor and actually makes it better.

So, see you next weekend, mah guest... *flies back into darkness*

(supposedly) Weekend Log: 2015.10.21

Greetings, everyone.

FINALLY, I get to write the update around here. The main reason I was late is that my existance outside the interwebz has significantly changed and quite a few important things had been decided. But now that everything has stabilized, I can contemplate and write a proper post now.

As you may have seen on the Newgrounds News Feed on my account page, I've made a trailer for the final, third part of the first episode of Dokuroshima. And according to the trailer, the next installment should be completed and submitted in November, which is next month.

That part is where I thought I would use some original soundtrack for a change. Unfortunately, the exported tune heard in the trailer, even after editing, didn't sound too good, but I think I would be able to do something about it. And if the animation is done early enough, I may actually try making a soundtrack. Otherwise, if I run late with animation, or if my tunes end up being crap, I'll just use something from the Audio Portal in order to avoid delaying the release.

As for the other, unnamed October short, that is also being worked on. It may be finished within days, but because it's supposed to be a Halloween-themed flash, I will submit it at the end of the month regardless.

Also, I've been having ideas of being more prominent on YouTube by making a vlog or something, but the idea is very raw and I cannot say if the idea will go anywhere anytime soon. Perhaps I'll scrap the idea, I dunno. It also has something to do with the "Mad Monitor" gig, but that project is frozen, so don't expect any of it to be released soon.

Not much I had to say, but that's it for this log.

See you all next Sunday \m/_

A minor delay

Due to unforseen circumstances, the trailer for the next Dokuroshima installment has to be delayed by a day or two. And because I wanted to do the log update with the trailer, the log is also delayed.

I will be back here as soon as the trailer is done.

Weekend Log: 2015.10.11

Greetings, everyone.

First things first, I've decided to change the format of this part of the blog, so according to the entry names, "Weekend Log", these updates will now be strictly on weekends just for the sake of better consistency.

As for the projects, Dokuroshima has some more scenes done by now, obviously. In fact, currently I happen to work on a newly added short gag scene, and all things considered, you may expect a trailer of Episode 1 Part 3 on YouTube next week.

Also, Halloween 2015 is coming in about three weeks, so there is yet another short on the way to be released. Not much can be disclosed yet, except first scenes of that were made a long time ago, but soon abandoned. So, just for Halloween, I'll pick that up, work on that alongside Dokuroshima, and join teh Halloween bandwagon. As or now, I'll just try to get done with whatever I can reach...

And that's it for this weekend, so see you all soon...

*Imaginary fedora tip*

Weekly Log: 2015.10.03

Greetings, everyone.

As promised, the works on Dokuroshima had been resumed, and so far, I've managed to get some progress already. As you may know, there was a preview of the next installment on my YT channel, which shows what was done back then. Now, the part that had all the scenes from the preview, plus a few more scenes, had been completed and slightly upgraded.

It also means that I'm going to do the main part of the work now: doing the rest of the scenes practically from scratch. Luckily, that is not much more than half of the episode, so it shouldn't take an eternity to get that done.

And then there's music. Golly rodgers am I gonna have some fun there... I remember writing once that I have the needed software to make my own music that is not chiptune like what I used to do. Perhaps one or two short tracks for the episode, and a track for the credits screen will do.

I think later, I'll add some screenshots to this post, but as for this week, that is it for now...

UPD: Here's a screenshot o a currently made scene (the last one left from the conversation in that room):

Weekly Log: 2015.09.25

Greetings, everyone.

The Spiderses sequel is not here, and there are reasons for that.

First of all, the fanfic itself just so happens to be rather cringeworthy, and it was obviously devoid of any potential for an adaptation. There wasn't enough to make jokes about, not even "grammer" could save it, and as it turned out, it just doesn't happen to be like "Half Life: Full Life Consequences" which inspired me to do the fanfic adaptation in the first place.

And it actually has something to do with the second reason: the first Spiderses wasn't recieved too well, and it was filled with jokes. At least compared to the unreleased (and even unfinished) sequel.
I kept telling myself that the only reason the sequel sucks is because of lack of jokes put in, but there is nowhere to put jokes.

Last but not least, I've went for too long with making crappy shorts, so I thought I should get back to something bigger.

As for why the hell did I decided to start it in the first place, it's because I thought I'd get myself out of obscurity by animating fanfics, and before making "gems" of fanfiction, I've decided to begin with crap just for practice and stuff, so I picked Spiderses. Perhaps I'll get back to the idea, but by then I'll pick a fanfic that is far more adaptable...

Long story short, I've decided to stop working on Spiderses and skip straight to Dokuroshima.

Happy Madness Day 2015

Greetings, everyone.

As you may know, Newgrounds just had a Madness Day during September 22nd, and many awesome flashes were submitted. I did too, although it was an average one, considering that it seems rather choppy and the production was seriously rushed at the end. Hell, it even got submitted a whole day later than expected. Oh well, at least I've managed to gain a fan anyway, getting me to 75 today :D

As for the future plans, I contemplate about several submissions for this year.

Several of them will be Spiderses flashes. A lot may have heard about the fanfic. I legitimately had an idea to animate fanfics that I find across the Web, and I decided to begin the idea with "Spiderses". I already made the first chapter adaptation, and it only took one day to make, so it shouldn't be too hard to accomplish all the way until the last chapter of the original that is stored on FIMfiction.

Dokuroshima will also be worked on. Significant amount of progress is made already, so I may still have enough time not to just finish the episode, but to upgrade the visuals as well. A bit more than three months left of 2015 should be enough for everything.

There's also a Halloween short that I keep thinking about making, which will possibly be the last Madness flash for 2015.

And last but not least, I can't stop thinking about making a blog or something. Nothing is certain in this part yet, but maybe, just maybe, there will be a live channel alongside the YT channel I have already. I still would need to figure out the content for it. The whole idea is basically frozen, but at least it isn't dead.

So, that is what I got for now. Maybe on Friday, I will have Spiderses 2 finished and submitted already. Anyhoe, see you at Friday. *imaginary rainbow Fedora tip*