Still at work so I cant actually try it, but heres what my workflow would be based on what I think is going on:

April Fools has gifted us one truly great thing amidst a sea of insufferability. Thank you Loop Daddy.

So.

Yeah.

I did a thing.

A while back I made the decision to completely, from the ground up, re-build one of the BIG scenes in Innervate, because among other reasons it was pretty terrible. It was more or less the scene that I forced myself to do during the "oh fuck my life literally just got flip turned upsidedown *inserted assorted screaming here*" moment that happened in the first little bit of 2018, when I was totally creatively burnt out, but felt like I needed to be doing /SOMETHING/. So yeah, I didn't know what to do with it, it just wasn't where I really wanted it to be and I wasn't good enough to get it there.

Now, 3 years later in a way better place personally (And the fact that I can say that on month 12 of lockdown in a city I just moved to during a global pandemic and sincerely mean it, is not an irony lost on me), having finally gotten to a point where I am seeing my skill get off that long damn plateau between skill and ability to critique and I'm starting to really see my stuff improve pretty dramatically means I know I can get that scene to where I want it.

Sorry, it's late, I've had some champagne to celebrate finishing this thing, and I'm in the mood for waxing poetically... so ANYWAYS, I just finished the rebuild on this one (which is the primary focus of the scene it is basically a character) and I'm pretty damn happy with myself. Not only is it infinitely closer to the original idea I wanted to go but wound up having to steer away from because I couldn't make it work back then, but it's also WAY more technically solid in terms of how it's rigged up and the tools I gave myself to animate with. It can actually bloom and open up within this one rig which is something I could never get figured out last time which is kinda crazy, AND it renders it like 1/12th the time which is bonkers.

Full Res

Compared to 2018:

I posted here, but that's it. Someone posted it in one of the many discords I'm on yesterday, and I promptly binged all 5 episodes so far.

And I love with the exception of Papa Roach, who had their whole garage band makes it big thing going on, all of the pieces were basically stories about just doin the work, thinking it was a failure or just another day, but then getting that momentary spark of dumb luck, and that propelling it to the iconic thing we all know. Very cool stories I had never heard before.

2 synths, 1 upright piano, 5 foot pedals and a theremin. 50 minutes of pure vibes. MEZERG.

I discovered the oeuvre of Vigiland last night in my pre-going-back-to-work-insomnia-fueled-youtube-rabbit-holeing-stupor:

I am a fan.

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Also completely apropos of nothing, the best travel ad banger I've ever heard.

Another video done with the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery. A fun little baking "competition" showing 2 different shortbread recipes from 2 staff members at the MAG. Easily one of the most complicated project I've done in a long while (that wasn't my own) just in terms of the sheer volume and variety of footage, and not having shot it myself. But it was fun, I think it came together pretty well.

There was one specific hallway shot in there that legitimately made me pause and wipe a proverbial tear from my eye.... "Like father, like son. He'd be so proud." That entire sequence of Luke kicking ass was so so good.

I was a little concerned about the Dark Troopers at the end of the last episode, but they managed to tread that really interesting line Star Wars does with droids, where they are inherently just kind of ridiculous. Like the almost goofy methodical mindlessness to just standing there punching a door, but it works because they are LEGIT TERRIFYING in that fight.* So getting to see Luke just casually strolling through all of them was so freaking cathartic and good good Star Wars.

(*The flashback sequence to Mando's town being attacked by the droid army when he was a kid was SO freaking good at this, in the prequels the Super Battle Droids are like kinda cool and interesting, but don't really hit with that visceral punch, but in Mando they are gaddamn terrifying.)

Pretty much agree on everything. I said, half-jokingly, after last episode that I'd flip my shit if they actually brought Luke in as the "other Jedi", knowing there's no way they would... and well holy crap they actually went and did it. But yeah, oof, my poor boy Luke, they did you more than a bit dirty on the facial match there. I do appreciate the clever framing of having every shot that wasn't Luke's face from that one angle exactly cut off at the neck so they wouldn't need to do the face match on it. Like, c'mon guys, you can frame it down a /little/ bit, it doesn't have to cut off exactly at his chin every time.

I definitely made some variety of unnatural noise when R2 rolled out and did his little hello wiggle.

And I'll give Filoni, and maybe more so Disney, some credit in /letting/ Filoni et al. do this but I am downright flaberghasted and impressed that given the ABSURD cashcow that Grogu is, to actually exit him from the show for legitimate story reasons is kind of a bonkers thing actually go through with, and oddly makes me really hopeful for how far they're going to be willing to go in doing some weird story stuff with their million and a half other shows down the line.

But speaking of... excuse me... *ahem*... THE BOOK OF BOBA Coming Dec 2021. AAAAAAAAAHHHHOOOHMYGAWDYESSSSSSSSS. I have just, an incredible love for the entire mythos and concept of the clone army and the fallout thereof and Disney bringing that back in with older Boba is just fueling this weird little fire that's been buried in my brain since Attack Of The Clones first came out. And I just absolutely adore watching and hearing Temuera Morrison on screen, full stop.

So. I'm a little excited.

@Drew: I was just watching one of Adam Savages QnA videos on tested about the Mythbuster days and he was talking about bungee jumping and how it's so true that every single time you go it just gets worse, even for the pros. (fun video, worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AvhYMPvPR4)

I was a terrified of everything sort of kid, so the closest I ever got was... we had a 5m outdoor board at one of the swimming pools in town that I actually got kind of okay with jumping off by the end there. But that's about it. My blood still runs a bit cold thinking about much of anything higher than that, although weirdly I think I'd probably be okay with it now in practice (Maybe not 20, but probably 10), I just haven't even been near a swimming pool since I was 17.

@Beeg: ?