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July 10, 2007
lsgl: the heat is on
by sven at 11:59 pm
Here's the sequence where the explorers get surprised by the hive waking up around them.
Act III is all about quick-cuts... But I found that these two shots have to go in slo-mo, nonetheless. There's only 65 frames here (two days' work); when squeezed in between other quick-cuts, there wasn't enough time to even process what you were seeing.
Plus, y'know, I want the audience to have a moment to really feel what it's like to have something 13-feet-tall galloping directly at you.
It was supposed to get up to 106 degrees in Portland today. Don't know if it actually got that high outside, but it did hit 95 in the studio for a couple of hours.
As a preventative measure, Gretchin improvised some extra cooling for the 'puters: two fans pointed directly at the machines. Thank you gl.!!!
How many machines have I gone through while working on Let Sleeping Gods Lie? I think I've had two LaCie external hard drives die on me -- and last summer the power supply on the G4 burnt out, necessitating a new hard drive in the process. Another hardware failure at this point in the game would be no good at all...
posted by sven | July 10, 2007 11:59 PM | comments (4) | categories: let sleeping gods lie
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Good n'scawry. Good job. Hey, stay hydrated, ok?!
Posted by: shelley Noble at July 10, 2007 11:46 PM
No worries there, Shells. I keep a water glass going next to me at all times. I'm drinking about a glass every hour; sometimes twice that.
...But thank you! --You too, 'K?
Posted by: sven at July 11, 2007 12:08 AM
cool beans dood!Thats some serious monster movie madness goin on.
your almost there!
jriggityPosted by: justin rasch at July 11, 2007 5:32 PM
for anyone who's interested, the grey machine is the "workhorse," the machine sven does lightwave work on and is the hub for all our backups & shared server stuff.
the three boxes on the workhorse are lacie "big disks" which host the movie files, our media files (like all our music) and the backup drive for our entire network of computers & laptops.
to the right of the workhorse you can see the UPS tower (uninterruptible power supply): you just don't want a power outage to wreck hours of work or break a backup!
Posted by: gl. at July 13, 2007 1:09 AM