THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Oh boy, tough week this week.  I was running behind on my board since I started it late last week.  On top of that there were some writing changes that the director questioned. The problem was that a line was changed in the dialogue but the scene took place in a different location with slightly different action.  The director was wondering if it was necessary to change the location at all since the scene worked fine in the original location. It would speed up the process and make less work for everyone.  That was a big question that the director needed to ask the head director and I wasn’t sure if I needed to work on that new section or not.  There were also a few things that the assistant director fixed in layout that I wasn’t suppose to fix in the boards.  The problem with that is, it throws me off a bit. I’m not sure when I’m done revising the board or not and it’s very confusing.  So I just turned in what I did and hoped it was what was needed from me. Later on that day, the director came over an we hashed out what was needed to finish the act.  That helped a lot.

I started Act 2 after that, which, lucky for me, had less rewrites.  That went a little smoother. Still, it really stressed me out in the previous weekend since I knew that there were a lot of “spinning plates” left to spin when I started work this week.  At least, next week, I have a day off.

In other news…

BLOGS/THE SIMPSONS NEWS

I was informed last week about a blog article which mentions:  10 FAMOUS AUTHOR FEATURED ON THE SIMPSONS.  It’s a fun list and it’s very interesting.

CLICK HERE to check it out.

BLOGS

December 26-31, my wife, Alesha, will be going on a blog tour with an end of the world theme.  Keep an out of for it. I’ll be making a small contribution for it.

CLICK HERE to check out her blog.

BOARD GAMES

Little by little, technology is creeping into board games. As it is, there are already tons of board games that can be played on: iPhone, iPads, and Androids. It was only a matter of time before board game pieces would start being introduced for these devices.  Behold, the signs of things to come.

This video shows playing pieces that can be used to play board games on the iPad, using the iPad as the board. It’s called, the iPawn:

This video shows an interesting hybrid board game designed and developed on the Microsoft Surface by a student for a master thesis supervised by MiWi’s colleague. The game uses the Surface, Android phones, and other components. It’s a very odd board game about evolution or something. The video is in German, I believe but just watching what they do with the devices is fascinating.

ART

I was having so much trouble working on my thumbnails for my storyboard.  I wasn’t sure why.  It’s not like it was the first time I’d ever storyboarded something.  It’s very similar to doing comics. So why was I having so much trouble?  Turns out, I wasn’t asking myself what I usually do.  Once I asked myself that, I realized, I usually sit down, with the hard copy of the script in hand and start doodling all over it as I read the script. I do this and, often, I put in a movie or TV show I’ve already seen, just to have something in the background that may or may not give me ideas for shots.  It’s also nice to have something to look at when I want to rest my brain.

Once I realized that’s usually what I did, I printed out a copy of my script and, instead of using Post-Its like I did last week, I just drew on my script.

I worked beautifully.  I put on MACROSS: FRONTIER and began drawing on my script. I managed to finish quite a bit of work that way.  Okay, so, even though I wasn’t planning on posting my script here on my blog, it seems I going to do it anyway in order to show you the work I got done this week.  So here’s the first page of my script.  I doubt you’ll understand what my thumbnails are about, but the point is show you my process, so here it is:

Drawing on the margins forces me to draw tiny, which saves time since there’s less pencil mileage. I actually get more done.

Originally, I was planning to do all the audio recording before I started boarding. Since I couldn’t find a good way to record though, I decided to go straight into the boards. Turns out that was a good thing.  I’ve found I change a lot of the script around depending on what I need the visuals to be.

 MOVIES

Oh, and one more thing, this trailer premiered Tuesday night:

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