We'll here we are into November and I've begun work again on AVT: Rescue. I've been away from it since April of 2008 because my responsibility to my family. Finding time for this project is similar to trying to piece together a replica of a spanish galley. You don't know why you're doing it beyond the act of the love of seeing the finished project sitting on your mantle.
I've gone back and tasked myself to finding every board and separating them. Now instead of being placed on a single sheet of six panels, they are now free to fill up my web site's bandwidth. The neat thing is that some of the panels make interesting animation sequences when you run them at high speed. My wife would snuff out my life if tried to animate this into a Youtube video so I have no prospects in doing so.
I like to think of AVT as my learning curve on the art of story boarding while refining my vision. Fan made I meant it as a filler piece for places like Dreamworks, Blizzard, Bioware, or Pixar's portfolio reviews. I suspect in 2009 I will finish it and simply place it on my wasted time tray, while starting on a family friendly story board behind its wake.
So far I have finished the entire Race/Shaft Drop sequence which is about thirty panels and I am ready to move onto the Brig Sequence, where we introduce the Tankbots ( My ode to the Dinobots) , some nasty Decepticons and a new age Maximal. If those references are over your head... congratulations you're not a dork.
