Tag Archives: animatic

Jun 10

Checks and Balances (or A Fair Point)

In response to my “Memo” post, we received an email from a community member named 75th Trombone.   He wanted to direct us to his blog where he’s shared some of his thoughts and concerns about our project.  I’m pleased …  [read more]

Posted at 2:48 am by Adrian in communications, planning, script · 195 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , ,
Jun 20

Drowning in a Day of Desire

This will be a personal rant.  It will annoy those who only want to see movie news, and it will enthrall (or at least entertain) those that enjoy reading about the lives behind.

I am thankful for iPods.  I am …  [read more]

Posted at 10:30 pm by Patrick in life · 13 Comments » · tags: , , , , ,
May 14

High Hopes

We’re a little behind schedule on the launching of the animatic.  I think – for me anyway – it has something to do with a fear of how it will be received.  I think I’ve been unintentionally dragging my feet …  [read more]

Posted at 3:07 am by Adrian in planning, website · 20 Comments » · tags: , ,
May 01

Technical Woes pwned

So, about 3 years ago, I had a serious hard drive failure and my main multimedia storage drive ate itself. This was my big-gun. About 1 TB of very speedy storage that housed all of the remnant uncompressed video from …  [read more]

Posted at 2:49 am by Patrick in life, planning · 11 Comments » · tags: , , , , ,
Mar 05

The State of Things

We’re counting. We’re watching. We’re meditating on the state of things. As early as 2006, we were having big discussions with Rand and Tony on the state of the Myst Universe, and the health of the fan base. It is, …  [read more]

Posted at 10:29 pm by Patrick in collaborators, communications, life, planning, website · 48 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , , ,
May 10

The Alpha Snake

We just had our much anticipated call with the executive at Turner.  I don’t think either of us have any idea how to feel right now.  On one hand, it was a major step to have a discussion with an …  [read more]

Posted at 3:36 pm by Adrian in communications, planning · 8 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Dec 08

Emancipation

It’s 4 am and I just burnt the first demonstrative DVD for the concept animatic trailer for Myst: The Book of Ti’ana. I’m freaking out. After months- no- years of dreaming about doing this, it’s finally done. Something tangible, something …  [read more]

Posted at 4:27 am by Patrick in collaborators, communications, planning, script · 211 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Dec 02

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Well, we had our last session of storyboarding tonight. After finalizing some last minute boards meant for the ending moments of the animatic, we thanked each other for all of the hard work and parted ways. I picked up my …  [read more]

Posted at 10:43 pm by Patrick in collaborators, planning · 12 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Nov 28

King Henry IV

It’s all starting to slow down, and it’s saddening and maddening and relieving all at once. The last 10 days or so, Ryan, Phil, Adrian and I have only gotten together a handful of times. Most of the work we’re …  [read more]

Posted at 9:14 pm by Patrick in collaborators, planning · 2 Comments » · tags: , , , , , , , ,