Spriggs: a Halo 3 Machinima

So, Season one of Spriggs is over at last. The grand experiment worked and was successful.

Now we can move forward on our Second Project, ‘Tales of the Grey’, A Fallout 3 Series. Which we’ve been working in the background on for about… Six months. Yes, coincidentally enough, the period when Spriggs started to slow down. (Hey, we were supposed to be on break the past six months any way…)

So, let me give you the gift of a couple Work in Progress shots, a Promo Piece and a Link to the Teaser.

And a gift for all you good little children out there.

And for those who haven’t seen the trailer yet….

I feel like grunting like some primate that skipped Kubrick’s Black Box of Evolution, but I am alive.

A couple things happened last night, none of them Major, and admittedly we were distracted by a few hours worth of conversation reviewing possible T-Shirt art, but we all got together at around 9, worked hard, started tweaking the sound, and collapsed after it was ready for the first compile.

The end results:

Good News: We’re finished, minus the compile.

Bad News: Jordan and I just woke up, and we have to go look at apartments.

I’ll post it and announce it as soon as we’re ready.

Nothing like an ‘opps’, to leave a post unpublished for the entire day, but still, it’s fixed now.  FYI, the first half I’ve mostly finished and Have timed at roughtly 10 minutes….. Um…. Yeah… I think that should say enough.  Also, rewatch episodes 4, 5, and 6 while you wait, to remind yourselves of a couple story points.  Peace!

Original Post:

Yesterday was a bit rough, but good: We managed to move everything over to Alex’s new place with only one vanity disintegrating in our hands and the laptop and hard drive with Episode 11 being packed away for a bit. The studio still has a bit of set up, but it’s there. Alex is very proud.

Secondly, Episode 11 will not be out tonight, but I want to say it will be out tomorrow night barring compiling errors. We just want to liven up some of episodes audio, and place ‘the missing scene’. You’ll see not only more animation but our first full 3d scene in the episode. With much, much more to come.

Thirdly, we’re currently doing well on episode 12 and 13. Don’t ask, let’s just say that some things move faster when everything else stalls. Which is good, since our new goal is to get as much of the audio recorded in the next two weeks as possible. Turns out Alex may be headed to California for a month or two to help wire a corporate HQ down that way.

Signing off for the Night,

Michael Reed

All right, we’re slowly hacking through everything to complete this episode.

Part of the reason for the delay, and partly why we had originally labeled these two weeks as a ‘break’ period, is because basically everybody in the Spriggs crew is either moving, buying a house, or looking for a new apartment.  (I actually had our apartment sold out from under us, so that includes me.)

The reason I bring this up is that means today is moving day for Alex, and that it’s time to set up his new home.  Which also is going to be our studio.  :D  I can’t tell you how happy I am about that.

That means unfortunately today we won’t be able to work on the episode.  Our current status is:
Need to put what we have through after effects to match effects.
Need to re-record a handful of angles.
Need to review and add ‘extra’ voices.
Finalizing sound effects.

Sunday or Monday therefore is looking like the release date, depending on tomorrow and how today goes.