July update (1)

Voices recorded, many pictures drawn, first few minutes of animation finalised - it's all coming together.

Having worked out that Flash is about as user-friendly as a Japanese language website, I have switched to using bog-standard film editing software, with a few little sparkly bits done in SwishMax and converted to .avi for editing. The practical upshot of this is that the animation process is extremely quick now, and it takes about a day and a half for each five minutes of rough cut, and a week to get that up to spec with sound effects, music and overlays.

Despite my two weeks off and my stinking cold, I have now finished the trailer for I.N., which will be on YouTube and Bebo very soon, before I bugger off for another week's holiday. The trailer consists of the first two minutes of the first episode, which I have degraded and scratched up to look like an old 50s movie trailer. The music is also different, a silly little piece called Marcos y Pedro, which is faintly similar to the music used in the episode itself.

Current estimated date for episode one being online; last week of August.