I reviewed version 0.3 of “The Barrier” this week and have now started to work on version 0.4. I watched version 0.3 of “The Barrier” twice this week. The first time to get a sense of how it looked. The second time I made notes about changes I want to make for version 0.4. I… Read Article →
I finished version 0.3 of “The Barrier” this week. It came in at 85 minutes, just a little shorter than version 0.2. I trimmed a few scenes and added more sound effects. After I review this version and create version 0.4, I think I’ll be ready to post the movie on YouTube to get some… Read Article →
I made some good progress on “The Barrier” this week. Mostly I added sound effects to the sound track. I’ve added ambient sound to about half the movie now. I added some specific sounds, such as foot steps. That isn’t easy to do, but fortunately most of sets look like they have carpet, so I… Read Article →
Last Sunday after I posted to my blog, my wife and I watched “The Barrier”. She said she liked it, but thought it was a little slow in places. She said that the main character reminded her of me. Most of the characters are based on me. I took that as the sign to go… Read Article →
I got version 0.2 of “The Barrier” done this week. This version runs 87 minutes. That was about a minute longer that the previous version. I cleaned up some more video glitches and added some sound effects. The full version of the movie took a long time to out put, and I had to leave… Read Article →
Work on “The Barrier” went fairly smoothly this week. I finished adding the computer screens to the scenes that needed them. That took much of the time. I had to go back and create some more screen images. There were a bunch of other scenes where I fixed some video glitches. I’m not sure what… Read Article →
I moved forward a little on “The Barrier” this week. I also made some changes to my website, and cancelled my Bukisa account. A Movie I Want to See A while back, I wrote a blog post about my goals for “The Barrier” (https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/my-goals-for-the-barrier/). This morning I thought about it some more and realized that… Read Article →
I made some very good progress on “The Barrier” this week. I completed the backgrounds for the “open house” scene and composited them into the scene. Now I can get onto the next phase. I gave up on trying to convert the orientation parameters in Xtranormal into their equivalent in Blender. I came up with… Read Article →
All week I tried to find a way to convert the camera specifications in Xtranormal into Blender, so I can create the background images I need. I made some progress. I had success with the focal length. Xtranormal’s specification is some kind of inverse of the specification that Blender uses. By trial and error I… Read Article →
My computer crashed again this week. My wife bought me a new one and I got back to work on “The Barrier”. The camera orientation conversion from Xtranormal to Blender still has me stymied. New Computer Our computer finally packed it in this week. We got a new one Tuesday and I started to reinstall… Read Article →