Light a fire

I'm hoping that this blog thing will guilt me into getting some stuff done. I get a lot of work done, but it's work-work and not play-work. Time is a valuable commodity, and I'm short on it, but by the good graces of my girlfriend I've been allotted a few hours here and there to work on something I've been meaning to do for a while: make another short. This short's gonna be short, too. Using THIS sound file and THIS rig. It's a good solid rig with quite a lot of options. To get around a personal time crunch, I'm not modeling and rigging my own, but that's on my list of things to eventually do list. I've gotten a bit of this item though so far....the idea is planned out. Simple set, few props, concentrating on the animation.

I'm partly on the way of setting the scene...I've the desk, the phone, the lamp, the fedora, the stage, and the lighting done already, so I'll document those stages in a little bit. The phone cord and the pull chain on the lamp are dynamically driven, and those were interesting to setup, so I'll go in detail about those when more time presents itself.

Until then, beers and cheers!