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 thankful for the first day of Summ ... [read more]

10:30 pm

Posted in life · 13 Comments » ·  tags: animatic, girlfriend, prom, rant, Starbucks, tea

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 on prepping and posting the jou ... [read more]

3:07 am

Posted in planning, website · 20 Comments » ·  tags: animatic, expectations, fear

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 various projects. Now, you must rec ... [read more]

2:49 am

Posted in life, planning · 10 Comments » ·  tags: after effects, animatic, dvd, geek, handbrake, mpeg-2

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, sadly, anemic.  ... [read more]

10:29 pm

Posted in collaborators, communications, life, planning, website · 48 Comments » ·  tags: animatic, hollywood, movie, myst, myst online uru live, mystmovie.com, presentation, public relations, the plan

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 tangib ... [read more]

4:27 am

Posted in collaborators, communications, planning, script · 119 Comments » ·  tags: aitrus, animatic, anna, atrus, concept, Cyan, dvd, myst, project passage, spec, storyboarding, the book of ti'ana, theatrical, trailer, veovis, video, videos

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 bag and laptop and started c ... [read more]

10:43 pm

Posted in collaborators, planning · 11 Comments » ·  tags: animatic, beer, boarding, carriage, chasm, chris, images, Jeremy, micam, Phil, Ryan

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 doing is filler and re ... [read more]

9:14 pm

Posted in collaborators, planning · 1 Comment » ·  tags: animatic, anna, images, linking, maf, Phil, Ryan, shakespeare, storyboarding

It’s almost 6am and I’m dead. We have to stop doing this when we know we have boarding to do later in the day. Freelance work in the mornings + boarding at night + editing until the wee hours is starting to kill me. Even though it’ ... [read more]

7:14 am

Posted in planning, script · 2 Comments » ·  tags: a'gaeris, after effects, animatic, assembly, editing, film burn, flash frames, gehn, kahlis, music, premiere, storyboarding

The process of assembly is still going strong, but we’re facing some pacing problems that we’re still trying to figure out. One of the things we’ve found is that music is definitely carrying this thing - and if it’s not the rig ... [read more]

11:25 pm

Posted in communications, planning · 2 Comments » ·  tags: animatic, assembly, dreams, voice talent