3 viz treats for you in midseason.

A teaser/cinematic-ish preview (2MB preloading .swf). Voice: Kronos Kirkorian Music by Heath Elvehjem.
Storyboard (25 MB .mov Quicktime): what the “rough cut” has metamorphosed into.
Waiting for Enniv to remaster the sound for this. Scrolling Credits, sans Heath Elvehjem who sent in his credits/machinima music too late to make the scroll.
And, […]

Rough cut of machinima.
Since the live version will not have lip-syncing, a dynamic camera will be used to key the user’s cam to the speakers.  In a scene with multiple faces, the person speaking would have facial light turned on.

Long time no post.
Well, when Ada told me that we should just go with June’s anime-style, I realized that there wasn’t enough time for the machinima for custom-made-everything (and that she wouldn’t be hurt if I executive-veto’ed her exact clothing suggestions).
With a liberal interpretation of history, and with more of an eye towards prettiness and […]

Some visual interpretations of Francisco’s character.
Francisco as a peasant boy who can’t afford better garb:

But, who’s who? (All skins are using the same shape. Eyes/hair/facial hair not yet matched. Just a brief glimpse; none might be used in the end.)

Today, the directors will begin rehearsals with the actors!!!

Barnado & Francisco
Costume:

Chain mail shirts (picture in Chain Mail Shirt.jpg )
Each with a brown leather belt and frog (as picture in sword belt-frog.jpg)
Hooded black cloak with the hood up (as in ‘cloak’ picture, but black)
Black baggy pants (as in ‘cloak’ picture)
Black leather almost-to-the-knee boots with a cuff (as in ‘cloak’ picture)
Each with gloves (picture […]

Ina said, “there is actually a 2-4 times larger version of the Globe to be constructed for the actual performance.” OH GOODY!
Dolgo said there should be a real AV for the ghost–TOTALLY AGREE–if I may–I would like to insist on that!
Ina said, “Passing of beacon along is also a good symbolism,” to denote the […]

Wikipedia (thus it MUST be RIGHT–hee hee-kidding) gives this image as a coat of arms for Kronborg Castle in Helsingør (aka Elsinore).
Further info regarding debate over coat of arms at http://swhack.com/logs/2006-06-08–its on the internet–thus it too is suspect!

Posting this for Sabina, since the blog template is not setup yet.  Click for pdf: Act 1, Scene 1 Props and Costumes Research