DarkSnarkArtie89

An update on what's been going on in case you're wondering. [GIF] As the box office season slows down a bit to the tune of nothing else but dogs and dinosaurs, the work at home ramps up as the wannabe "Apexis Media AI Movie Studios" gets more progress done on it's breakout episode for Heroes of the East. Except for the fight sequence, all of Act 1 has been "filmed" and portions of Act 2 are done. I might get Act 3 stuff out of the way this weekend because it won't require building a bunch of city facades and only really has 4 scenes in it (three which don't take place in a city). I think I might have to temper my expectations assume that "post production" (making music and ambient tracks to go with the movie, as well as some graphics and what not) will be around the original deadline and that the episode should release within the window of late August/early September. In the meantime, I'll try to throw in something else to keep this place from being content starved, but I don't know

A bit of an update about what's going on now since the box office has cooled for a little bit (but not much). But as the title suggests, I've made about six minutes of the first episode of Heroes of the East. Given in the script that there are 16 scenes and that 4 of them are done (plus an extra scene was added due to testing Seedance 2.5 and needing to fix up some pacing) alongside a few quick clips, this means that the overall episode should sit in around 25-45 minutes like I anticipated. Some screen grabs from the current state of the episode. To be brutally honest, I'm wondering if I'm punching way above my weight here. There's a lot I'm learning as I do this, both in regards to the tech, assets, and the process, but also just about myself and my whole approach to this storytelling business... And it all makes me wonder: is this going to be worth it in the end? Earlier on I did a quick poll to see what people found to be the biggest issues they had with indie animation