So, this is fun: these lightsabers weren't rotoscoped. I was able to pull mattes on the pink tape they were wrapped with. Not perfect, and it doesn't solve the "they have to be different colors" problem, but I'm amused that it worked.

Is there a better way to get these 21 gigs to a guy in Australia and a guy in fuckinenglandorsomeplace?

I am in the sky.

This is gonna be good.

Or bad, I don't know. But it's gonna be fun. I'M MAKING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT IT MAYBE.

‘Galaxy Quest’: The Oral History

Just tell them to remember, the point of this isn't to find out how close you all can get to making the perfect short film. The point of this is to find out what short film you make. So long as something gets made, there's literally no way to screw it up.

Zarban — still working on my Tracking Treatise, but I have to run, and I might not have somethin' for ya before you wanna shoot if that's happening tomorrow.

For the purposes of a test shoot, it'll be fine if you over-mark it. (No paint-outs for a test shoot, so fuck it.) For test purposes, a pack of day-glo Post-It notes will do the trick. Tear off 1/2" squares, cross each square with a Sharpie'd vertical line and horizontal line, and paste 'em all over the place. (We'll call 'em "parkers" — Post-It Note Markers.) Don't think in terms of designating corners, think in terms of giving me "surfaces" to work with. Ideally there'll be no-fewer than two visible parkers on any surface that might later be replaced by a screen. (e.g., if we might put a screen on that wall back there, make sure there's always two or three visible parkers on that wall.)

This is actually way overkill, but it'll lemme test tracking. The nuances will become clear in the next post.

*looks up*

Oh. Thanks.

Hey, weird, look at what happened in this thread. Yeesh.

*looks down*

I'm back! Sorry, got sucked into a Panasonic freelance-shaped vortex for a second there. (Also why we skipped a week on FIYH episodes.)

Gonna work with Dave on the ship model here in the next couple of days. In the meantime, probe droid. We thinkin' full-on "scary spider-ish Imperial Probe Droid," like in the storyboards, or should it be something less... scary? For some reason, the thing that's been in my head this whole time was been Wheatley from Portal 2.

Zarban, thoughts?

Tim's Vermeer.

Everyone go watch that shit.