Goals, technical difficulties…and the limits of sanity.
So, I’ve set goals for myself in the past. Often times they are met with little or no complication. Sometimes I have to work harder than others, but I still meet my goals. I have set a goal for myself and this project:
FINISH RECORDING THE VOICE OVERS FOR SEASON ONE….AND….COMPLETE EPISODE 1 IN IT’S ENTIRETY BEFORE I LEAVE FOR A YEAR.
(Oh, yeah…Did I mention that the Army is sending me to Korea for a year? YES…I leave in February.)
That being said…I think I may go crazy trying to accomplish this goal. As is typical with the Crash Squad Project…technical difficulties are going to drive me crazy. I had another scare with my External Hard drive. It’s the one I keep ALL the show stuff on (Animations, character data, models, sound files, scene files, sets, etc…) It simply stopped working. I freaked…then took a deep breath and began to work through things. The Drive was still readable…wich was good. I couldn’t save any data to it…bad…and, when I tried to access any show data in my animation program, the drive began to ‘flicker’ on and off…meaning that I couldn’t access data thru the program. I could open the drive…I could see all my files. They were still there. That was good. I tried to transfer the files to my desktop…and held my breath.
2 and a half hours later….success! The files transferred to the laptop, no problem. Now the second step. I had to re-format the drive. So I did…and…2 and a half hours later….SUCCESS again! Now, it was just a matter of RE-transferring everything to External Drive so the Animation Program would read the files correctly and back to work, right?
Well….I’m not sure if something got corrupted in all the transferring of files…but as I am opening some of these character files or scene files…parts are missing. Even some WHOLE characters are just GONE. So…I have to take time to rebuild them. I’ve gotten pretty quick about it, but still…that’s time I could be animating.
Another issue is that some of these ‘blank’ files are causing the program to crash. SO, for example….if I set up a scene to animate….I’ve placed Drake where he needs to be, added the whole set, tweaked the lighting just right…and then need to add another character…if the character file is one of these ‘blank’ files….it crashes the scene and I have to start over. SOMETIMES saving the file works…other times I can’t find the scene even if I’ve saved it and when the animation program re-opens, it opens to the last successful session I had (Which is NOT the scene that just crashed….)
UGH!
No matter! I WILL find a way to get this first episode done before I go….even if it drives me crazy. Keep checking back…a lot should be happening pretty quickly around here in the near future!
Thanks,
Luke
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