tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63355704021092533602024-03-27T09:25:24.075+00:00Captain's BlogGeneral wibbling, thoughts, opinions and production stuff for my 3d amateur animation projects.Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-1401713229790757722021-08-28T16:35:00.002+00:002021-09-12T21:06:16.287+00:00Captain's Blog: TMU has resurfaced!Happened to notice the dial on my browser suddenly showing the TMU site thumbnail again today, so tried going onto tmunderground and... it worked!After assuming that TMU, TMOA Archive and the Movie site were gone forever... they appear to be back. Not sure how this miracle has happened, but it has... so the old leaky barge still struggles to stay afloat, god love it!Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-72638431159200343432021-07-23T12:13:00.000+00:002021-07-26T08:42:54.923+00:00Captain's Blog - Farewell TMU and Ken White the Lord of the DanceTaken me some time to properly digest this and the implications, but he's my take, for what it's worth.Ken was the beating heart and soul of the TMU community; he provided the place when The Movies site went down (the prequel to the site beign nuked from orbit permanently by Lionhead, which we knew was going to come, irrespective of the Lionhead Defense Team....) and was responsible for keeping Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-288064268652879052021-02-14T11:10:00.001+00:002021-07-26T08:43:05.167+00:00Captain's Blog: Woe to me Bah!Work is kicking my arse at the moment; too much to do and pushing 12 hour days remotely (most of it spent in meetings) is leaving me drained and bereft of thought, so have made next to no progress in anything animation related.What little time I do have is spent mainly idly watching crap on Youtube or planning and playing in my current RPG campaign, which is at least keeping me sane!HopefullyKillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-57863109584083943152021-02-02T20:42:00.004+00:002021-02-06T11:36:12.820+00:00Captain's Blog - Completely Machinima There's a new podcast coming this week hosted by Ricky
Grove, Phil Rice, Damien Valentine and Tracy Harwood. Exciting news
worth keeping an eye (and ear) on! Starts Feb 4.
"Join
Phil, Ricky, Tracy and Damien on the first Thursday of every month for
an hour-long show that will entertain and enlighten you!"
https://completelymachinima.com/A long needed show to Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-12119767389873230332020-12-13T14:43:00.002+00:002021-02-06T11:36:31.849+00:00Captain's Blog: The Festive season approachesWow; works is really kicking my arse right now, so had previous little time to do much of anything.Work on Fortune and Glory has stalled, work on my secret TM project has stalled, work on my new MS project as stalled... everything is in hiatus just now.Hoping to get some more free time to turn to production work again after Xmas, so we'll see....Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-78694558975288629772020-11-20T00:27:00.008+00:002020-11-20T14:10:43.497+00:00Captain's Blog: "The Zone""They call it "The Zone"'; a precisely circular, 1 mile wide area of
land in the middle of England. It sits there, day in, day out, swathed
in mist, and formed into a dome that never strays more than a few inches
one way or another, that covers the area to a height of 304 feet
exactly, precisely in the middle; we know, we've checked. More than
once.
Well, when I say “never strays”, that is Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-32229601716444409182020-11-04T12:31:00.003+00:002020-11-04T12:32:27.996+00:00Captain's Blog: Moviestorm forums rise, Lazarus like, from the dead!Surfed in to flick across the MS forums for inspiration (as I often do), then noticed something...The long missing logo and banner had reappeared (so used to a blank banner and the "logo" text in the top left it took a while for it to click....)"Hmmm," thinks I, "I wonder if this means posting works again? I may as well try while I'm here...."And, lo and behold, it does! So the forums look like Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-30569733316658247692020-11-01T15:46:00.004+00:002020-11-04T12:32:36.119+00:00Captain's Blog: Fortune and Glory Part Two released!I'm trying to keep this to a weekly slot if I can, but ahd to rush to get this instalment done due to it being the half-term school hols over here in the UK, so had to use a week of my leave up to entertain my daughter; 4 year olds take a lot out of you at my decrepit age!Anyway, Part Two is available exclusively on Vimeo as before, due to the strike, I'm not risking uploading this to YT, so it Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-4037738037805956912020-10-28T18:23:00.003+00:002020-11-04T12:33:03.625+00:00Captain's Blog: Privateer Part One and Moviestorm Projects for the future...As discussed briefly here and elsewhere, Privateer is also a go!Part One (reminiscent of my writing of old, in that it's 12 mins of mostly dialogue, required to fill in the background and kick start the story) is available in the usual places...I enjoyed getting back into MS* and reacquainting myself with my projected "replacement" for The Movies; I could never get the hang of iClone (I just Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-91430540598061831772020-10-25T19:13:00.006+00:002020-11-04T12:33:11.065+00:00Captain's Blog - Fortune and Glory: Part One released on VimeoDesigned purely as a fun project and inspired by Biggsy's latest "experiment", here's Part One of a short serial emulating the 30's and 40s serials; no mods, music straight from The Movies game, no VOs and "silent movie" type title cards' enjoy Fortune and Glory on YouTube...Or, alternatively, you can watch on Vimeo instead... your choice :)UPDATE - I had a warning notice from YouTube arrive Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-30051905025695208372020-10-21T18:15:00.002+00:002020-11-04T12:33:20.105+00:00Captain's Blog: New Projects Underway!Yes, I've at last sat down and started something 😁First, a The Movies project, inspired by Biggsy's Last Day in Justice silent short. Very cool little short with some clever editing work and appropriate music, it inspired me to metaphorically punch some Nazis, so Fortune and Glory is on the designer's desk right now; no real mods (as my TM install saved folders appear to be pretty corrupted, andKillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-75608437111366819332020-10-08T19:43:00.000+00:002020-11-04T12:33:39.752+00:00Captain's Blog: In which I go all "Youtubey"Well, I've only just gone and done it!I've finally updated my Youtube channel after years of neglect, and
those who have an interest can find the entirety of the completed
Odyssey episodes uploaded there if they have any desire to watch or
rewatch them.
The playlist comprises -
The initial subtitled pilot episodes (in all their "gory glory" 😉), all combined into one long video;The 6 Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-47611571678014099012020-10-07T20:40:00.004+00:002020-11-04T12:33:58.231+00:00Captain's Blog: Lament for Times Past and Whither Hence? ...which is just pretentious double-speak for "what shall I do now?" and "where have all the flowers gone?", in effect.Well, there's Deep War that I'm intending to make (underwater sci-fi mini-series; I don't have the resources, either voice actors nor time, at the moment to commit to a longer option), amongst a few other half-baked ideas whizzing around in my brain, but if there is no Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-30613543480252188012020-09-28T11:41:00.004+00:002020-11-04T12:34:07.655+00:00Captain's Blog: Eldritch Part Three (Rough)As I mentioned in an earlier post, I managed to dig out some old bits
and pieces of stuff when I started looking at getting back into movie
making; one of these was the unfinished rough of Eldritch Part Three (available on Vimeo (and embedded above), as apparently the TMU movie site is borked these days and I can't upload or embed it there).
It has little to no music, is exceptionally rough Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-57335619107257808902020-09-25T16:20:00.003+00:002020-11-04T12:34:16.568+00:00Captain's Blog: False starts and new beginnings...After a false start... or two... or three.. years(!), I'm finally in a position to start thinking about machinimating again... but doing what?I've managed to finally get The Movies working (as far as I can tell) on Win 10 (still need to check how it renders, etc), and recovered some mods, textures and even script files from an old hard drive I checked recently, so I've got at least a basic start.Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-23394898821343525402017-01-01T01:06:00.003+00:002020-11-22T00:41:00.336+00:00I'm back, baby :)Geez... was it really 6 years ago that I made my last post here??
After many years of external issues interrupting my machinima making efforts, lost data, disillusionment, family, birth of a new daughter this year and flirting with WoW again, I've finally ended my self-imposed exile to reconnect with my love of 3d animated movie making.
Sadly, as my one and only PC now has Win 10 installed on Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-61090685656400923342011-08-17T17:57:00.004+00:002020-11-04T12:34:30.851+00:00Captain's Blog: "We were on a BREAAAKKK!!" Update...and still am...
Just dropping a note to those who read the tripe I scribble on here and have passed on their good wishes, and those who have mailed me over the last few weeks inquiring about how I'm getting on and so forth; hearty thanks to those goodly folk for your thoughts and support; it's much appreciated.
So, an update... where are we?
Still in the Slough of Despond, I'm afraid! Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-8237844533687876022011-06-21T11:25:00.003+00:002011-06-21T11:28:26.175+00:00I'm taking a breakReal life crashed in this morning in the form of a phone call with some bad news, meaning I'm taking a hiatus from movie making and community involvement for a while in order to sort it out.
I won't have the time to do half of what I had slated and this couldn't come at a worse time for me, for a variety of reasons. I'll try and do lines for anyone that I owe them to, but even that might Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-80312257068861039022011-05-29T14:30:00.000+00:002011-05-29T14:30:47.840+00:00Captain's Blog: The Sunday Show... with K and K :)Yes, I succumbed to a huge bribe (well, it was more of a small bribe... ok... it was a teeny-weeny bribe... ok, it was a barely veiled threat, but still...) and the mission I chose to accept was co-hosting duties with Big Ken White tonight on The Sunday Show on TMOA.
Tremble in your boots, all yea who read...
Actually, it should be some fun, as we are kicking off the first full "Knights of the Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-35191450586288291162011-05-17T16:59:00.000+00:002011-05-17T16:59:53.766+00:00Captain's Blog: Eldritch - Apocalypse Then (Part Two)
Eldritch is on the trail of the mysterious girl. A meeting with Rafferty leads to a dangerous encounter...
Starring
Killian
Fospherous
KV
Lanna
Mods
Chris Ollis
Davidwww
PapaG
Pak1234
Writerly
SquirrelyGirl
Contains occasional swearing.Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-66245777657272993572011-05-14T19:29:00.001+00:002011-05-14T19:29:57.163+00:00Captain's Blog: TheNobbit.com goes live!Yes, at long last Gabe (Animatechnica to the iClone community, Gabe to those who have the pleasure to work with him, and "Foul Pornographer" to Ken ;)) has put up the official Nobbit site, replete with piccies, soundtracks, info and more stuff than you can shake a stick at!
We can only hope this means that "The Nobbit: Part Three" isn't far from release :)
Check it out HERE; you won't be Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-54417932878359384272011-05-13T20:26:00.002+00:002011-05-14T15:15:21.542+00:00Captain's Blog: Odyssey: Interlude One
Season Two Interlude One
The first of several "side trips" that showcase other characters and areas of the Odyssey universe, shedding more light on the backstory of the arc of the Odyssey series.
In this instalment, secret meetings take place, and two familiar characters discuss the current situation...Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-82943788416679337402011-04-25T13:59:00.002+00:002011-04-25T14:18:49.098+00:00Captain's Blog: The Chronicles of Humanity ReduxDon't forget (or, for those who didn't know in the first place!), Damien Valentine's re-imagining of his excellent The Chronicles of Humanity series is being premiered tonight on Indytheatre. Originally shot in The Sims, Damien decided with Season Two to switch to Moviestorm. In doing so, he made the decision to go back and redo the first series in the new platform as well... and Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-67086248257810736692011-04-16T14:16:00.000+00:002011-04-16T14:16:10.330+00:00Captain's Blog: Eldritch - Apocalypse Then (Part One)is now available on TMU or direct from Vimeo... or even here, if you prefer :)
Part One of Eldritch - Apocalypse Then
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Meet John Eldritch, London's Night Hunter; a man whose destiny is to defend the night against the Dark.
Might want to watch full-screen, as most of this takes place at night and is therefore a little dark :)
Part One of a Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6335570402109253360.post-55054933660396016342011-04-15T22:04:00.003+00:002011-04-15T22:38:38.344+00:00Captain's Blog: Eldritch - A Production Blog (Part Two)Part Two: The Rebirth
When last we left our intrepid blog, the idea of Eldritch had languished for a good while in the dank, dark recesses of my brain...
Recently rewatching the delightful Strange series (starring Richard Coyle, better known to some as the legendary Jeff Murdoch in the UK version of Coupling (still one of the classic comedy series, and written by none other than Steven Moffat, Killianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02655334905248889603noreply@blogger.com0