Okay, so you come here expecting me to pull a Megatokyo or something and you see that there's no Making Of. What's the deal? JF is daily, right? Not anymore! I'm doing JF Final Scene 1, so you get actual JF comic pages every other day. This is the third. I think you're getting a pretty good deal. I'm getting the raw end of the deal. Not only am I not getting paid, I haven't found a day job, and I'm working myself sick on JF. It's so terrible, I tell you. Every time things go wrong, things that used to be fine become huge problems. My worst problem is that things are not consistent. I did solve one problem. It was a naming conflict. I had a bone named DuctTape and an object named DuctTape. You can see the Duct Tape in the next to last box. Other things were not so easily solved. Another problem is the zoom factor of my 2d editor. I'm going to give that a work over, maybe connect it to the scroller. I played a little space war demo that used the scrolling extensively and I liked it half way. It doesn't seem like it would take much work since I made it object oriented and stuff.
Here's Page 3, the finale to Scene 1! News in thirty minutes or so... Until then, check out my live video documentary.
It's exactly like I said. I'm so happy that I'm smart enough to do something right. But a lot of it is endurance. A few times, my computer was acting crazy. A few other times, I was acting crazy. One of the features in today's today's page was done manually since I couldn't get it done automatically. Can you see it? It's the trail on the rock. It was supposed to be alpha blended, but wasn't supported by my software. It would only take a few hours to implement it, but that would have been two hours too much. I'm not much up for staying up until 2 AM working on this. I've been doing that for the last four days or so. Of course, I'm sleeping until noon, so it's not making me sleepy. It's making me angry, instead. If you know me, you know that I get moody. I an normally very smooth, cool-headed, and intelligent. From time to time, I go into my unintentional Mr. Hyde impression and I throw myself against walls, furniture, and abuse myself in worse ways. It often happens when I'm not well fed. It often happens when I am forced to talk about war. My lesson for the day: "Don't start none, won't be none!" If you don't want something to happen, don't start. If it is something that you do not control (drunk driver heading towards you), then the quote works double: don't drive. But what if someone crashes their car into your house? Well, that's just silly. But so is not driving because someone might wreck into you. The odds, really for either are so low. If either happens, call me and I'll give you a dollar for proving me wrong. Kraftwerk is most definately the best music in the world.
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So, it's Thursday at 1:02 AM. How is Javantea's Fate doing? Not so well. I procrastinated on working on Javantea's Fate until 11:00 PM Wednesday, two hours ago. Creating the characters took a lot of time beyond the two hours, so no this isn't quite how I wanted it to work out.
Secondly, this is a fluke because Anarchy Online's story started last night. I spent Tuesday night getting back into the rhythm of AO and then all of this night participating in the event. It was pretty cool and I'm glad that I went there. Also, there's a full movie to go with the even. Check the community site. It's a big download, but 20 MB not bad if you want to see a 30 minute CG rendered show for free.
