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    VFX artist by day and fan animator by night.

    Alexandre Bellefeuille @Player-exe

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    More details about Project Thundercloud, and a new teaser.

    Posted by Player-exe - May 13th, 2013


    The project is going great, and if you haven't heard of it yet you should read this post before reading this.

    - The film is made from 24 separate shots, of which 18 (Edit: now 20) of them are already done. If I have the time I could add extra content to the film to make it even better.
    - In one of my posts I said it would be around one or two minutes with the credits. I was wrong, right now I already have 3:30 of footage done and I don't even count the credits or the tutorial.
    - The animation tutorial at the beginning of Project Thundercloud is done, it's 1:47 long.
    - I was not supposed to make a video tutorial, when I made the animation example I wanted to show every step manually for the panel, but when I converted the steps in Swivel (A great software by the way) I rendered them all at the same time. I was not expecting the software to save them all in a single file but it did and I liked the result.
    - There's lens flare in it, but I try not to abuse of it.
    - There will be two different versions of the movie, but I will talk about it later.
    - The entire project is in a 5.21GB folder, that's a lot, but Yoki's Story VI was taking 4.63GB just for the first part.
    - The project is in sRGB IEC-61966-2.1, instead of using Adobe RGB like every other project I made before. (Be careful, Flash exports everything in Adobe RGB by default)
    - It's very complex to render, enough to make my computer crash by going out of memory even with 16GB of RAM. (No, I don't have a swap file as my laptop has a SSD)
    - The editing is still done in iMovie, it's not perfect but it's doing the job.
    - Oh, and I'm not just doing the animation, I also made a remix of a theme for the film.

    This project is a fun project, scary, but fun. It influenced in part Yoki's Story VI : part I, when Thierry37 recorded the last line of Yoshi ("I do Yoki, I do"), he accidentally played the file in iTunes and the very next thing on the playlist was This Day Aria. It gave us a good laugh, but not as big as when my friends from my school watched the trailer of my movie. I told them a lot about the project, but I just "forgot" to tell them it would be about ponies.

    Also, I made another short teaser a week ago. It's not a lot, but I think you should like it.

    Outside of this, well, even if I am not working on sprite movies anymore I'm still here to help anybody who want to learn. I will always be there for you if you need my help on something or you just want to talk about life in general.


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    But freerun enough

    What ?

    That looks pretty good! Looking forward to it.

    Lookin pretty quality in it looks just like show or near show accurate in the style. So awesome from what little I've seen.

    If you ever need a musician for a pony project and my style matches the criteria, I'd be happy to help, though I'm more diverse than my music on NG.

    Thanks, it would be awesome to have a musician working in the project, but I don't want to use techno or dubstep in this movie. Are you good with orchestral remixes?