Thank you very much for all your feedback on the last post, everyone. I promise I have read it all, even though I can't respond to everything I'm afraid. Thank you for being so understanding and supportive.
I don't necessarily want to abort the Sons of the Forest video follow up.
But I do think I should take a second st...
2024-08-19 17:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been a very difficult preproduction week thus far. And this will be a difficult post to make. But here goes.
For the last couple of days I've been intensely stressing over the footage for the Sons of the Forest video. As I've been wrestling with an uncomfortable realisation as a creator.
I don't think this is working...
2024-08-15 16:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon everybody. Just to let you know that with HELLDIVERS 2 public and then a week taken off as a break, I'm ready to get started with the next edit.
Actually the timing was really excellent. For last week saw me finally secure a new place that isn't this cramped little flat in Brighton. I'm exceedingly grateful to ...
2024-08-13 19:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening all. I'm back from a family BBQ. Lulu got lots of cuddles from various family members as she was passed around from lap to lap. And she came back thoroughly full of chicken and cheese.
She's currently flopped to my left, utterly tuck...
2024-07-28 22:32:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon everybody. It's the end of the 5th week of work on HELLDIVERS 2 bullshittery. And I've been able to finish it and get a render ready. Here is the link. Thank you very much for waiting - https://youtu.be/FXjEs46j8Eo
Let me know what you think and whether you...
2024-07-28 13:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening all. Quick post to update you all as I'm deep in the editing trying to deliver the video for you all.
It's the 5th week of work of Helldivers 2 bullshittery and I'm working it through quality assurance. For those interested, I've made another one of those worksheets to track the progress of bug fixing - 2024-07-23 21:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening folks. Hope you're having a lovely week. It's the end of week 3 on the latest bullshittery video this is the progress so far:
Week 1 - Pre-production to find the necessary scenes from about 35 hours of footage
Week 2 - Properly cutting about 60 scenes together ...
2024-07-12 18:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening folks. Thank you again for partaking in that poll in the last post. Helldivers 2 was the clear winner. Therefore I've enthusiastically spent the last 8 days on it.
For those unfamiliar - at the start of each bullshittery project - a "master" project file is created. This is an Adobe Premiere file where al...
2024-07-01 18:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning all. This is the follow up post to the one on Saturday.
Having worked on that video-essay for 3 months or so, it would be nice to have a change of pace before going back to it afterwards. Is there a potential bullshittery you'd like me to make?
Brainstorming with the chat a couple of days ago, I came up with 12 possibili...
2024-06-24 07:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon all. I've been able to finish another work-in-progress chunk of this Sons of Forest video-essay. An unlisted video link is here for those interested - https://youtu.be/p7ROvAjV7-w
This one consists of segments 16 to 22 (out of 40). So over the halfway mark ...
2024-06-22 14:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everybody. I've managed to complete the first chunk of that Sons of the Forest video. I've made an Unlisted link for you here. Sorry that this took ages. I was hoping to have it by last Friday. But I ended the week with about 60 issues that had to get worked through - ...
2024-06-05 22:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning everybody. It's the end of week 9 on the latest project and here's summary on progress:
Broadly I'm working on a follow up to The Forest video essay. This time on Sons of the Forest. It consists of 40 segments and is roughly 3 hours long.
Segments 2-15 are my current goal. Getting ...
2024-05-24 10:01:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening all. It's the end of week number 7 on the latest video-essay for Sons of the Forest. And here's a summary on progress.
I must apologise for week 6, for despite my desire to dive into the project immediately, I came down with a common cold. Normally it wouldn't be an issu...
2024-05-11 17:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for taking part in the polls everybody. So the final tally of opinion was
1.) Option 1 - Just continue with Sons of the Forest = 556 votes
2.) Option 2 - Set this to one side and continue it later = 195 votes
And thank you for those who provi...
2024-04-29 17:47:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon all, hope you're all smashing. It's the end of the 5th week of pre-production work on a Sons of the Forest video-essay. And it went something like this:
Week 1 & 2: Reviewing the 17 livestreams and ma...
2024-04-27 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening all. It's the 4th week of work on a Sons of the Forest video-essay and here's an update on progress:
I've finished planning out the overall structure (completed last week) - resulting in about 40 points to talk about in sequence. Which currently occupy my wall as a guide.
I'm penning the actual draft scr...
2024-04-18 18:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon everybody. It's the second week of work on the current video-essay. Here's how things are currently going. My current objectives are:
Review the Sons of the Forest streams for useful moments.
Identify the points in the prior video-essay that I'd like to bring up again.
Plan out the broad...
2024-04-04 18:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon everybody. I'm back from a week-or-so of rest after the last video. During that time I did a bunch of cleaning and cooking projects - the latter being a minor hobby of mine.
And sufficiently inspired by a recent playthrough of Sons of the Forest, I realised that I'd never tasted an Oyster before. You can harvest and eat oyst...
2024-03-26 14:54:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon everybody. It's been a week of quality assurance since the last update. And I think I've been able to iron out the errors in the latest bullshittery. I have a link for those interested? Let me know what you think of it and as always, thank you sincerely for your extreme patience and kind support :)
Good evening folks. Apologies for the fairly late post. I should have typed up one about a week ago. I've actually jumped quite far ahead in the edit.
Good afternoon everybody. Hope you're doing well. It's been a week and a half since work started on Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery and here's an update on how things are going.
Things have properly conspired against me a bit, corr blimey. It's been a real uphill battle:
Good evening folks. Thank you for participating in the recent polls. It appears that Arma 3 Prairie Fire (Vietnam) was the clear winner. I will endeavour to deliver you a Arma bullshittery - starting today.
For those unfamiliar with my process, there are 4 phases:
Greetings folks. I hope you're all doing smashing.
I'm currently taking this week off to chill, whilst also penning some (potential) video-essay scripts that might take off later. All is well over here. In the meantime however, I figured I'd go through some potential bullshittery options and present some polls.
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2024-02-01 22:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everybody. I've managed to finish the latest bullshittery and have a link for you if you're interested. It's Divinity bullshittery (part 4) - https://youtu.be/8H_R8dJ7x8o
Blimey that was a grindstone. It has been scrubb...
2024-01-25 20:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy New Year everybody. I hope you've all had a smashing one. And Christmas before that.
It's been a couple of weeks since the last update. And I've been squirreling away on the keyframing/animation phase for the next bullshittery. And though the second week proved difficult due to sickness, I've been able to get about 81%. 2024-01-01 21:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everyone. A short update, as it's been a week since the last post and I'd like to keep everyone in the loop.
Thank you for all your feedback concerning the draft. It's restored my confidence considerably. I felt happy enough to proceed to full keyframing. It's already started and I'm about 13% complete.
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2023-12-12 19:55:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everybody. Hope you're all doing well this week.
Over the course of two weeks I've been able to cut together a Divinity bullshittery. And have also perform some quality assurance (mostly audio) to bring it into a watchable state. I've intentionally skip the middle part, for the moment. It has no text and animations. Yet at lea...
2023-12-05 19:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everybody. A quick update on progress. Keeping it as succinct as possible in a TL;DR:
Good afternoon all. Another update. With a TL;DR first:
This prepro...
2023-11-21 15:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening everybody. Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. A complicated post below. But for those swinging through, here's the TL;DR: