Business Aspects

Here’s a video of my business presentation for the movie’s production in the near future. The increase in February is due to the fact that I plan to finish Red State Banjo Episode 19 this month (January, in case you didn’t know) and then I plan to take a break from episodes through April- possibly even later. Hope you enjoyed by business presentation. You can download the PowerPoint here.

Music!

I’m composing some music for the movie. Here are some samples:

Apple Muzak - Light-hearted music box piece meant to mimic the music from the Macintosh ads.
Digging Interlude - A sort of half-montage tune for near the beginning of the movie using banjo and piano.
Acoustic Church - Somewhat of a funeral march for the end of the movie with guitar, piano and church bells.

The above pieces were made with Finale Notepad and GarageBand and should probably undergo another edit. 

The 3D Brenda

Remember that 3D Derrek head I made a little while ago? Well, I decided to put Brenda into the mix as well. I decided I would have Brenda say, “Oh my!” in the scene in which there is 3D animation. So first I had to get into the Swift3D advanced modeler and use groups of 3D figures (mostly spheres) to sculpt the basic shape of Brenda’s head:

Then I go to the scene editor and add the materials (the colors) to the appropriate shapes:

Then I add the mouth (a black sphere) and animate the mouth saying, “Oh my!” as well as a slight turn of Brenda’s head. Then I add outlines and cartoony shading in the preview and export editor and export it to Flash format. See the result of this madness by clicking here. Cool, eh?