I bid you greetings this week of 3 to 9 April 2016. Let us pause a while and reflect upon it. Have some images too!

This week I’ve been working up to a
pitch-o-matic. A pitch-o-matic is the high-tech equivalent of someone pointing at physical storyboard images pinned to a board with a pointer and talking through them. It’s not unlike a PowerPoint presentation – narrated instead of voice acted, still images instead of moving (like you might get with a story reel), and above all it’s fun.

The point of a pitch-o-matic is to pitch the story to other people to get notes on what works and what doesn’t at a story level. I did a few pitches at Blender Conference 2015 and Beorn’s advice was to use something more like storyboards than the planning comics I was scrolling around. So this is that. 🙂

The cleaned up images for the pitch-o-matic have been done since Sunday. There are 116 images to pitch with, 111 of which are narrative. The story is looking tighter and leaner than it’s ever been.

The first time I get to see how the story executes however will be when I put together a story reel. I’m quietly optimistic. 🙂

It’s
been a hectic and energy-sapping week at the dayjob so the narration’s had to wait until the weekend. I’ll be compiling it and sending it along to my usual reviewers shortly. 🙂

Aside from that, not much to report! More pictures!

Thanks for reading/looking. See you next week! 🙂