Saturday Weekly Roundup: 15th May 2010
May 15th, 2010 | 
Author: Well this week has been one for the books, firstly let me just take a breath and say…
I have been accepted into the Freelance Animation School for 2011!
Absolutely amazing stuff! This is a three year course and by the end of it will give me a Diploma in Applied Animation and a Diploma in Digital Media.
It was definitely high-time to get off my corporate day-job ass and go plunge into this as I’m not getting any younger and will be 31 years old by the time I finish this 3 year course in December 2013 as it is.
But don’t worry I will be continuing work on Frontier Prelude to Darkness right through. And the great thing I’ll now have more time for it, and obviously the caliber of the CGI and animation is going to rise!
So what the hell is that ugly button in the top corner you’re asking? I would be asking this too, and to be honest I’m a little ashamed to have it there at all. But truth be told I’m currently not a rich man, and will be even poorer once becoming a student next year, the course will be setting me back $8,200NZD per year which is a total of $24,600NZD over three years.
So if you do like Frontier Prelude to Darkness and want to help at all, then any donations no matter how small – 50cents? $1? $2? $24,600? (hehe) Anything at all would be massively appreciated. If you can’t? Seriously that’s fine, I’m just happy you’re watching my series at all, you’re already doing me a service by wasting roughly 8 minutes of your lives every month watching it. But yes the button is there just in case – I really don’t expect anything at all.
Fineprint time: Absolutely all proceeds will go toward the cost of the course. If you are not the credit card holder, you must seek permission from the credit card holder.
So where’s the Frontier news? Well here it is, great news here too! Part 10 is complete and up on youtube this week, I hope you enjoyed it. Again this part didn’t quite contain the action I was wanting to put into it, however this is due to running out of time.
There is a great action scene coming up and it is going straight into Part 11 which I am finishing up the dialogue for right now. I’ll get this out to my voice actors and begin work very soon, so stay tuned for that!
In internet news, I got two great projects I discovered, the first one is FRONTIER GUARD – which I stumbled onto due to the similar names between my own series and theirs, but this is awesome! The work that has gone into this is really amazing!
The other great project I’ve been following was none other than IRON SKY, this looks like it’s going to be absolutely fantastic when it comes out, the crew are amazing at keeping all their fans in the loop with regular behind the scenes updates, and now for the first time they have put together their first teaser using footage from the actual movie, this thing looks epic.
In gaming news you may remember me ranting about having some GTA gaming via LAN with a buddy of mine, well I was able to put the gameplay footage up on youtube, I absolutely suck at this game which you will be able to see, but we had a lot of fun.
Well that’s it for now folks, work on Part 11 begins.
Stay tuned for more later.
Lew
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Wait wait wait, just a second here, you have a job in the insurance business. Arn’t those companies supposed to be rich beyond imagination? I learned this through the movie “Sicko” directed by Michael Moore, a american documentry director. In the film we learn that the insurance companies are making off with Millions of dollars.
Damn, so your not making it in that field? Bummer. But the main thing is: You are now getting an education where you actually like the job. And you can have fun doing it. Hopefully that beast or whatever it is on Toyre Diablo isn’t the smoke monster from the american show “Lost” that monster is pure smoke and it cannot be stopped.
So after you get this degree Lewis, what are you planning on doing with it? You should contact Enigma Productions after Iron Sky is done, they may be able to help.
Many Congrats on the school acceptance Lew!!
Thanks Haz and thanks Sean – the insurance industry just isn’t my thing. And the beast noise you heard is not to do with any sort of smoke monster – you will see soon.