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 →

I need to create a background for a few of my scenes, because the ones available didn’t fit. I output them with green scenes, so I could drop in background images. This week I started to work on how to create the background images. My original idea was to create flat images and then distort… Read Article →

I made good progress on “The Barrier” this week. I compiled all my scenes into a complete film. It came in at 86 minutes. My goal was feature length, so I’d say I’ve accomplished that. After I did the edit, I watched the entire movie, with only a short break in the middle. I was… Read Article →