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4:28 PM, Sunday,
April 9th, 2006:
I swear
to you, there was nothing I wanted
more last night than to just relax. Then
spend a lazy Sunday watchin' the Masters
after one of THE most stressful weeks
in recent memory. That was until
I happened to click on msnbc.com and
see this:
Coercive
Diplomacy. That's a cute
term.
(sigh)
I knew then, that
my Sunday would be spent frantically trying to finish
this cartoon that most likely even
now that it's
done...is
already out of date. Man, I just want to RELAX
already. Yesterday was SOOO huge, it has only
just begun to sink in, and I can't begin to tell you
how little I wanted to work on this. And
GodddddddddddDAMN what a huge pain in the ass it is to
try and compete with the Bush Admnistration's thirst
for war. Especially when Iran is acting just as
"Cowboy Macho" as we usually do. Can we please
get some women in power already? We may still be a
year away from actual war, but I can see us
firin' off a few pre-liminary missiles ANYTIME. And
the moment a bomb is dropped in that country,
this entire project is completely
worthless.
So another day
goes into the "Adam has a hyper-active
productive gland' category and the cartoon
comes in at a whopping 3:08. I was able to connect the
two previous parts and finish it off relatively
quickly. I did the connecting piece soon after
the last entry (which involved Sheehan) and today
spend finishing it off. So...how did it turn
out?
I see the burn-out
in my choices on some parts, but really just lacked
the resources to get all the
"pictures" I would need to animate it
correctly. For being "Google-strapped", I'm very proud
of it. What I wouldn't give however for a guy in a
suit that I could take 2 dozen pictures of in a
studio and then cut all up. My suit doesn't look
presidential at all, so I really had little
choice. If I had to do it over, I'm pretty sure
that would be my first step. I spent more goddamn
hours looking for arms and hands in specific positions
than I care to admit.
Oh and
SPEAKING OF WASTING MY GODDAMN TIME...lol
you guys should get a kick out of this
picture:
Guess what
THAT is. THAT...is a box I unpacked in my
trailer when clearing everything out to rebuild 4tvs.
And in THAT BOX is the board game RISK. The board
game that I spent FRIGGIN DAYS googling,
retouching, and recreating because I didn't have
the game to take a picture of. I even mentioned it in
the last entry that I could "go out and buy it",
but thought I could recreate it easier. Little did
I know it was
BEHIND ME IN MY TRAILER NOT THAT I'M AT ALL FRUSTRATED BY THAT.
AHHHHH.
Ahem.
Now of course I'm
just glad it's over - and I start thinking of how
to get this puppy in the right hands. Biggest problem
right now has been proper compression. I want to
compress it to Divx, which I've been FLOORED at how
incredible the quality is for the size. A 50 minute
show (not that I would ever download a video of the
Sopranos) is only 350 MB and it's nearly
DVD quality. That's 7 MB a minute. So I'm ready
to do it, but can't figure out which program I need.
So the version you guys are seeing, although TWICE the
bitrate of all my normal site videos, it's still
crappy for distribution on a larger scale.
Then of course you
have the copyright issues. Jib-Jab dealt with it with
"This Land" and hell, they even re-recorded the song.
So I've decided to forgo doing anything with it
monetarily for now and simply try to get it some
infamy and popularity on the net. In the future
I can always get a quick group of musicians in
here and do a "live" background recording of the
music as you can barely hear it anyway. I'd also need
to change the incidental music as well as it's the
theme to Hogan's Heroes. It fit so perfectly that I'd
rather have a cool finished piece than make money off
of it.
But for now, I'm
done thinking about it. It's done, and now it's just a
matter of getting the compression right - and then
making LetsBombIran.com a stop for anyone lookin' for
something different. That or I could just post
that video every single place I can possibly
imagine and just say: screw it it's public
domain...
...but that's a
whoooooooooole 'nother entry. The final entry. Coming
whenever the hell I feel like it.
