News Archive October 2001

No new FX tests or anything for this week. I have been working the midnight shifts and pretty much playing all the Counter-Strike I can just trying to unwind and relax. Thank God for computer gaming. I would most assuredly be completely nuts by now without it.

On a different note, and another reason I don't feel like doing anything, Sith Apocalypse was featured on this week's edition of Digital Llama Radio, a fan made "radio" show (really a web-based MP3 show if you want to get technical about it.). It is done in the style of those annoying morning radio shows where the hosts all sit around and laugh at their own jokes. They bash my movie and me pretty hard, pretty much tearing me a new one, and the only reason I mention it here is that some of the jokes they made are actually pretty funny. I actually laughed despite myself at some of the things that were said and it was kind of like listening to MST3K.

But they didn't have a single positive thing to say and went as far as to suggest that I shouldn't have gone through the trouble of making it in the first place. If you want to listen to their "review", then go click the link above, and unfortunately you'll have to sit though about 20 minutes of tripe before you get there.

I can be pretty thick-skinned and can dish it out and take it, but I felt this went too far. I left a message on TFN forums (which is no doubt deleted by the moderators by now) reproaching them for their lack of maturity. As to what their response will be, I'll never know....I think I'm done with TFN and the forums for a while. I'm sure no one will care.

Don't worry though, I will keep working on FX tests and scripts and plod along towards our next project. It's just that this hobby is hard enough as it is without naysayers picking at you along the way.

(7 OCT 01)

I am discovering the joys of 3D Studio Max. In preparation for my next fan-made endeavor. I have started FX tests in earnest. I just put up a new FX test of an X-Wing pilot slaloming through some asteroids. It ain't great, but for a first anim. I am very happy.

(1 OCT 01)

Well it has been a busy month. Sith Apocalypse premiered and was very successful as far as getting the film seen. So successful in fact that it drove the site down several times.

The film is now being hosted over at Star Wars Land Fan Films. It is a new fan film website with a decent start (and I'm not just saying that because I'm biased), so go check them out and don't forget to look at their forums too!

I'm starting the month off with a bang! Got a brand new FX test and a new project I am working on as a concept / speculative piece. The FX test is unconnected just started getting familiar with 3DStudio Max, Character Studio, and some models from SCI-FI 3D.

Well that's the news for now. The new FX tests, along with my new project updates will start getting posted on the Future Projects pages, as they happen. Here's to the future!

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