M dot Strange's blog

So since I have a few extra days in the month because I finished storyboarding early I did some prelim production estimates... Its good to constantly do these so you know how much time everything is going to take... and so your not surprised if it takes a year longer than you had planned ^ ^ Assuming the film is 98 minutes long and contains 1,800 shots ---------- To complete in 12 months 8.12 minutes of animation per month | 150 shots per month 2.03 minutes of animation per week | 38 shots per week 17 seconds of animation per day | 5.5 shots per day ------------- To complete in 18 months 5.5 minutes of animation per month | 100 shots per month 1.4 minutes of animation per week | 25 shots per week 12 seconds of animation per day | 3.56 shots per day ------------- To complete in 24 months 4.09 minutes of animation per month | 75 shots per month 1.03 minutes of animation per week | 19 shots per week 8.9 seconds of animation per day | 2.8 shots per da

So I finished off the storyboards this week... The final tally... I completed 134 storyboard pages... 15 frames per page... So thats 2,010 crappy pictures I drew in cafe's and lounges around this city over the past 2 months... That does not equal 2,010 shots in the film because many of the complex shots are sequential...as soon as I finish renaming the actual shots I'll post that number here...should be around 1,800 though... that number would strike fear in the FACE of any sane person... I'm not completely sane but it scares me too... BUT just so you know I was afraid of the amount of work I had to do for WATS too....fear... it comes with the job... So now after I eat ice cream alone to celebrate this step in the process I will get back to work on the animatic... I'm already 20 minutes into it so jah... I only budgeted one month for the animatic so it will be done by August 1st... in late July I will be buying/building a new workstation so I'm looking forward to th

So i just came back from 2 weeks in a remote country doing research for HSM... I've storyboarded through 89 pages of the 98 page script so that will be done by the end of the month...right on schedule... I'm already 20 minutes through the animatic but that is what July is for... In July I will also buy/build the workstation for HSM...so i get to have some geek fun... I can say without a doubt... HSM will be the darkest and most evil thing I have ever created... At several points when writing... it brought me to tears out of turmoil... it has real pain in it... not made up fucking movie bullshit pain with the violins in the background to press your "choke up" button real world gut wrenching FUCKED UP emotional razorwire... Why would I make such a thing? The world we live in is FUCKED and if your not on Xanax you feel it... On my flight back this guy behind me explained to this woman next to him "you take it if you dont want to care about anything, if you dont want