We're finishing up the two scripts we have on our plate - the Bleach season 4 finale and UBW:A episode 12 - and it's probably been the most intense scripting period we've ever had. We tried to get ahead on some completed scenes and intended to bring actors in for some recording sessions this month, but we planned them late in...
2024-07-01 01:28:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone! This'll be short and sweet since I'm contesting a pretty terrible illness right now and can barely write anything. Here's the monthly drive link, for all the stuff~! I hope you all had an amazing February and I'm looking forward to what comes out of this month.
~Logan
2024-03-05 20:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo scenes 5-7 remain, but they're not nearly as much of a handful as scene 1 or 3 were. Figured we'd give everyone a clear preview of the episode so-far since all the existing previews are done (and some audio tweaks/music cues have changed since the individual videos). Anyhow, hoping to see this all done next month!!
2024-03-01 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPhew! A lot more when into this than one might imagine, especially with getting over 100 new sets of lip shapes done. This scene, despite not being terribly action-packed or busy, is probably one of the most technically involved ones we've ever worked on. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy! Finally on to the final scenes of the e...
2024-02-26 03:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole scene through, this time with finalized sound! It's been such a labor just to do this one scene, despite it just being talking. This scene was the biggest hurdle in the episode, so everything else should come more easily~!!
2024-02-19 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the last chunk of scene 3! Once the sound design is finalized, I'll hit you guys with the fully FX'd version. Lip sync for this one is going to be a nightmare, but that's all that's missing from it.
2024-02-14 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis scene continues to kick my ass, but I'm almost done with it! It's so beyond me to explain why it's so difficult to work with this particular scene, but the footage is rendered in such a way that isolation is difficult. Add in that keeping such long talkative scenes interesting is a challenge in itself, and it's a certain...
2024-02-12 07:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You guys know the deal! The drive has been moved for the month~! Now I'm going to return to scene 3 kicking my ass.
2024-02-07 22:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostSame deal as the last one! These last two together are one of the three micro-scenes we had to split scene 3 into. You might be able to get an idea with this for why it was split.
2024-01-31 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, this episode's been kicking our ass. The amount of isolating and new lip flaps and visual continuity stuff we need to watch out for is at an all-time high. Scene 3 also ended up being insaaaanely long - so much that we had to break it down into three smaller scenes, then chop one of those in half. We wanted to ...
2024-01-30 03:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post
You all know how it goes! The Patron Drive is here for the month, and will switch next month~! We're looking to make up for lost ground we expected to traverse last month this month!
2024-01-07 00:35:15 +0000 UTC View PostOur lip flap artist and sync editor both really knocked this out of the park - they had to make a lot of rather complex new lip flap shapes for the O sounds and new shots. I think they both did a properly fantastic job. This is the full version of the scene, minus music - that's still undecided. The next large multi-scene pre...
2023-12-31 09:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! We don't do these unless there's a huge amount of man hours sunk into them (the last one was literally like four years ago), but we're using a Writing Pledge this month - for those who are unfamiliar, it's a pledge to account for the man hours spent scripting, reviewing material and preparing. In this case, we spent ...
2023-12-31 01:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis has been the craziest month! From running the Kickstarter to having the channel almost terminated to dealing with Christmas and several off-camera personal issues, it's been a helluva lot. I'd be lying if I didn't admit we got sidetracked. There's good news though! The channel looks like it's going to be okay, we're edit...
2023-12-28 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostImportant notice about the YouTube channel. We just got hit with eight video removals (all for Bleach Abridged content), resulting in the channel having 3 copyright strikes. Normally this would give us a week until the channel completely shut down, but since a previous strike is being resolved that's been put on hold and we s...
2023-12-13 00:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe lip sync'd preview of the rest of scene 1 is done. Our lip sync editor noted that color correction on this episode has been a heck of a mission, which I suppose isn't unexpected! It's insane the things you do in hopes of them never being noticed. More previews coming soon!
EDIT: So uh... this was done last month, an...
2023-12-06 11:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You guys know the drill! The drive has been moved. You guys can find all the usual goodies in here!
We hope to punch hard through UBW:A scenes this month and aim for a January completion date, and are particularly energized by the Nat19 Kickstarter doing so well!! More updates coming soon!
2023-12-06 11:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we deliver! Scene 2 is done from start to finish. More coming soon~!
2023-11-30 08:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo guys, here's a preview of scene 4! I'm getting pulled away for some things I can't set to the side, so I got as far as EQ/vocal sound design and then threw a base room tone on it. The fully FX'd version will be included with the lip sync'd version.
May I say this was the most upsetting thing I've had to work on - t...
2023-11-30 03:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostLip sync is done! This one was probably the hardest scene we've had to do on that front so-far. The shot of Archer against the horizon had to be isolated and rebuilt to a degree we've never had to do before. We're also firmly in the "every shot is moving in some way" part of the show, so that's fun! It makes the final product...
2023-11-25 02:28:08 +0000 UTC View PostNothing new to this story, but it's 3 AM and I'm just finishing up work for the night. The final version of this scene won't have much in the way of in-depth SFX since it's all clothes and footsteps, so I wanted to drop this preview. The vocal mixing is effectively done, and a base ambiance track is set. This scene was fun, m...
2023-11-22 11:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all! Here's this month's patron drive link. Reminder that at the end of each month this will be moved to the next month's folder, which goes out between the 4th and 6th of each month. Thank you so much for your support!
2023-11-04 22:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostHeya guys! Normally we don't cross-contaminate the brands this directly, but this one means a lot to us. If any of you guys like D&D, please check out the Kickstarter for Nat19's setting guide. Details are in the video.
Supporting this also indirectly supports Project Mouthwash and increases our reach - things...
2023-11-03 02:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostWe haven't done one of these in a long time since we don't like off-setting costs, but we did resolve that if we had any MAJOR costs we'd return to doing this: I've mentioned in recent posts that our workhorse PC has been dying for a long time. For the last couple of years our previous workhorse has been sputtering, and reach...
2023-11-01 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAbout to head out for work, but I punched through the collective scene one and wanted to throw it your way with FX! This one has required a lot of small QOL edits - particularly, I've started doing C-flap fading since lighting in this episode is crazy in a really subtle way. I'd never done that before (in effect, isolating th...
2023-10-31 23:55:28 +0000 UTC View PostSame situation as last night! It's 3:10 and I'm hanging up my hat for the night. This is the other major chunk of scene 1. You guys will get both scene with SFX very soon, as we only had to separate them for ease length/location FX purposes.
Lip sync isolation isn't done in this one yet - I'll be diving into doing that ...
2023-10-31 10:16:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! I'm just turning in - I expected to have the full audio track for this done, but the lighting in this scene is INCREADIBLY hard to work with, and I spent a ton of time today just making the base visuals work so we can do lip sync later. Some shots in this were genuinely the hardest I've ever had to work with, but you...
2023-10-30 10:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe final recording session for UBW:A 11 is done. $5+ patrons can expect to get the link to the recording session after this session goes out! From here on, it's edit-town for the whole thing!
2023-10-27 08:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a frankly mind-numbing amount of work getting the new work PC built and functioning, we've finally moved on from our formerly dying machine and are back on track! For the past year and a half or so, we've been working on a six-year-old PC that's been on its deathbed. We would have sorted this out sooner, but we couldn't...
2023-10-26 22:28:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the Patron Drive link for this month~! Over this month we expect to have one final recording session for UBW:A 11, and then a bunch of scene previews as we get into editing it. These scenes are likely to be chunky since this is the most dialogue-heavy episode of UBW:A we've written.
2023-10-06 17:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
