M dot Strange's blog

Here's the newest episode of BADASSERY! This one was 115 shots and I did all the animation in 3 days... one day to comp/edit/sound fx... and one day to storyboard/prep/record voices... so 5 days work total... I'm going on a trip for Xmas and New Years in a few days so this is my Xmas gift to yall! 10+ minutes of BADASSERY madness+ maybe a little disturbing Xmas thing thrown in as well ^_^ See yall next year! Thanks for sticking around with me for another year! BestesT, MdoTs P.S. While I'm away Endika is finishing HSM ^_^

So I animated 115 shots for the next episode of Badassery in 3 days... the plan when making Badassery is to make it as fast as possible while rendering on one PC as to not make PG&E richer as Badassery is a "for fun" project and well didn't even raise $1000 on Kickstarter 0_o So its not something imma dying to throw money at... So yeh animate while awake then render while asleep... that's always the plan with this stuff BUT if you animate too many shots the one PC rendering can't keep up... so now I wait like 6 hours for the last 34 shots to render... they only take 3 seconds per frame to render but this episode of like 10 minutes so yeah... I'm going to have to experiment with using Open GL renders for Badassery as that should get the render times down to like 1 second per frame... Saying that... waiting kills me 0_0 I myself can't wait for HYPER FAST PC's so there's no waiting at all and you can just create at the speed of thought...

I'm not a "perfectionist" when it comes to my art/creative work etc... I work hard to get to that %98 point then I put the thing out and move on to the next and that's worked for me so far to get shit done... Now I do know some artistic/creative types who would fall into the whole "perfectionist" thing... and they have a really hard time FINISHING things... even STARTING things is difficult some times because they get the whole "I'm not ready to start yet?!" thing going... then if they do start here comes the whole "BUT am I ready to finish?!" thing... Its REALLY frustrating to for me to watch this going on... as I know NOTHING is ever "PERFECT" and striving for perfection is striving for the IMPOSSIBLE... since its impossible you will NEVER FINISH... and if you will never finish then you will never complete anything... you will never make anything... so what does that make you? A halfway filmmaker? A halfway artist? A h

Still from THE SWORD OF DOOM What is the thing that you use to protect yourself from all the things that try to hurt you in this world? What do you trust more than anything else? What in this world has never let you down? What makes you feel secure when everything else makes you feel insecure? What do you turn to when all else fails to make you feel like you belong? Like you matter? Whatever that thing is...IT IS YOUR PASSION... IT IS YOUR DRUG... IT IS YOUR GAWD. If everyone abandons you and the world goes to shit... you will always have it... you will live to fight another day.