October 2011
14 posts
All of western Mass. lost power the other night because of some sort of absurd spooky pre-Halloween snowstorm. Yesterday morning I figured it’d probably take a week or so to fix the grid so I immediately got the hell out of dodge. Staying with people in Boston for a while.
I was planning on posting something today, but I guess that’ll be delayed somewhat. Maybe. I’ll see what I...
Hey cool
Cascade is in the Newgrounds portal, on the front page:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/582345
Again, thanks to Tom Fulp. If he didn’t help me out, this thing wouldn’t be hosted anywhere on the web, outside of torrents and spammy download sites. Hope I can return the favor by getting more people to check out Newgrounds.
Act 6: THE PLAN
You are now probably wondering when I’m going to start updating regularly again. Here is my projected date for the first page of Act 6.
11/11/11
I know, you are probably tired of waiting around for content by now, and probably aren’t too psyched for another two weeks of downtime. But, there is seriously no way I can dive right back into production at the moment. I have to prepare...
About EOA5, part 4
Ehhh I’ve got to get back to work soon so let’s see how fast I can knock out the rest of this.
Let’s continue from the point of all the stuff about Jack’s massacre through Exile Town, and address issues surrounding
The big chess game
After all this, events involving the carapace people still resemble an extremely complicated interdimensional game of chess. Everything the...
About EOA5, part 3
More about what happened. There’s still plenty to cover. I won’t be totally exhaustive, but I’ll mention what I think is worth noting. At this point, I believe most people have understood most of this stuff. Still, there may be a few things mentioned here that didn’t quite occur to you, or some connections you haven’t made yet.
The Flash answers most major questions...
About EOA5, part 2
Now to address the substance of the animation.
It is not only long, it is dense. As dense as most other animations, while subjecting you to many more raw minutes of this rapid fire data. The events are portrayed nonlinearly. They shift focus between different sessions, planets, and universes, zooming into and out of them, showing them shrink, teleport, or explode spectacularly. We jump to points...
About EOA5, part 1
First, I’ll go into the process, and all the technical stuff about making it. It ended up being around 13 and a half minutes, about 50 MB, was split up into 5 separate Flash files strung together by a loader, and used around a thousand art assets, not counting those imported from old animations. Following about a 2 week break starting 8/22 to take care of other things, I started more...
Music + Apparel
If you missed the announcements, there are
1) New songs!
2) New shirts!
From news:
Hero of Mind, Hero of Heart. In case it’s not obvious by now, we’re going to put out all twelve god tier designs, two at a time, to complete the set. Preemptively canonical! Guaranteed. Will they show up in the comic? Will they show up on your body?? I will answer the former. You, the...
Megaupload
Didn’t really want it to come to this but here we are.
http://t.co/kvWEbOye
The cat was kind of out of the bag on this animation anyway. Lots of people seeing on video feeds and such, blabbing spoilers, etc. Download, run it off your computer, or upload it to your site, view there, link to friends.
Lets try to cool it on all the video feeds though. We don’t all need to be huddled...
Newgrounds
I had actually planned in advance to try hosting it on NG for a little while, til things cooled down. This is the solution I was referring to below. It has worked well before. This is different though, due to the magnitudes, so I ran it by Tom Fulp first, who owns the site, and he was agreeable to this idea.
He suggested we put it in a section reserved for higher volume transfers, which sounded...
The lowdown on 10/25
Some want to know if I’ll post it at midnight, or later in the day. First thing you should know, as of right now the hosting solution isn’t even a sure thing.
I have something lined up, but haven’t heard from the guy helping me out in a few days. So I’m not sure about the timing on this. I can’t go into more details on the solution than that yet.
I’ve heard...
Some people seem to think this is a bad idea. Because I guess of some general anathema surrounding tumblr culture, and its concomitant memetic hyperventilation. Whatever. I’m just posting stuff here when it seems relevant. I’m not following anybody. I’m not getting suckered into the latest tumbling fads, if those are even a thing, and I ain’t reblogging shit.
And then...
Verification
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Also I really should have shut off email notifications before I made that first post. Sorry gmail inbox, my bad.
Going to try out tumblr for a while.
Because formspring is terrible. I discontinued my account. (Again.)
Not only was it poorly organized and difficult to use, I think it lent the false appearance that it was a viable way to get in touch with me. And a lot of people treated it that way. But it really wasn’t. Many thousands of submitted questions went unread. It was not possible to keep up with them.
So I guess tumblr it is,...
