Preview
Video Clips of
Lost Planet
Still Frames from Lost Planet Series
Notes About Contrast Between Lost Planet Animation and Original Novel
Lost Planet
Series
Project Log
The
Lost Planet Series
Lost Planet Series Updates:
June 23, 2008:
After over a month of hard work on the sound-track (version 101), it is finally complete. Version 101 is composed of two sound-tracks tied together; background music and a narrative. The background music is Holst's "The Planets", and the narrative is based upon the Valkon navigator's log. This is the most basic decent sound-track I could create with the resources and software within my accessibility. The music comes across quite well, but it is obvious that the narrative could use some more help. The most recent preview video (Lpnet-clip-106) is composed of actual minutes from the completed project, and can be downloaded for a good look at what to expect. This one contains significant spoilers.
After over a month of hard work on the sound-track (version 101), it is finally complete. Version 101 is composed of two sound-tracks tied together; background music and a narrative. The background music is Holst's "The Planets", and the narrative is based upon the Valkon navigator's log. This is the most basic decent sound-track I could create with the resources and software within my accessibility. The music comes across quite well, but it is obvious that the narrative could use some more help. The most recent preview video (Lpnet-clip-106) is composed of actual minutes from the completed project, and can be downloaded for a good look at what to expect. This one contains significant spoilers.
April 17, 2008:
Got those folders done and now I'm testing them out with the movie-maker program. Didn't take long to create another preview video-clip, a 2 minute piece that aims towards capturing the full-effect of a man stranded on an asteroid in deep space alone, with a mystery beyond anything he could ever imagine. I found that adding the first 2 minutes of Neptune, from The Planets, as a musical sound-track added to the effect.
Got those folders done and now I'm testing them out with the movie-maker program. Didn't take long to create another preview video-clip, a 2 minute piece that aims towards capturing the full-effect of a man stranded on an asteroid in deep space alone, with a mystery beyond anything he could ever imagine. I found that adding the first 2 minutes of Neptune, from The Planets, as a musical sound-track added to the effect.
April 14, 2008:
72 folders by appx. 40 files each equals 2880 files. That's how many picture-files I have to adjust with the color-filters, all total. I'm going into my third week on this tedious, montonous, mechanical process, with 54 folders done, I have just 18 to go. 18 x 40 = 720. 720 more picture-files to go. Just 720 more tedious, eye-bending picture-files to process, and then I shall be ready for the video-clips. That'll take another month...
72 folders by appx. 40 files each equals 2880 files. That's how many picture-files I have to adjust with the color-filters, all total. I'm going into my third week on this tedious, montonous, mechanical process, with 54 folders done, I have just 18 to go. 18 x 40 = 720. 720 more picture-files to go. Just 720 more tedious, eye-bending picture-files to process, and then I shall be ready for the video-clips. That'll take another month...
Febuary 11, 2008:
I just recently discovered that some older and smaller computers and computer monitors do not capture the details of the asteroid landscape and caverns within the Lost Planet animation (as well as most of the text at this web-site) and I am very sorry for that. It is a technical detail which I could not possibly foresee and something I will be working out in the very near future. Hopefully, I will find a way to fix this problem without it costing me another year of work and setting the project back again.
I just recently discovered that some older and smaller computers and computer monitors do not capture the details of the asteroid landscape and caverns within the Lost Planet animation (as well as most of the text at this web-site) and I am very sorry for that. It is a technical detail which I could not possibly foresee and something I will be working out in the very near future. Hopefully, I will find a way to fix this problem without it costing me another year of work and setting the project back again.
January 14, 2008:
Delays, delays, delays, excuses, excuses, etc... I have 35 minutes of animation complete and I need to extend it to at least 45. So along with completely revising a wide angle scene, I also have found it necessary to seek other ways to extend some scenes, and the result is, the pilot episode of this series will not be complete until spring of 08. In any case, I'm sure it will be worth it, as I have committed myself to doing the best I can with this project and a few extra months of work is quite acceptable. For more on the complexity of this project and my situation in dealing with it, see my Project Log.
Delays, delays, delays, excuses, excuses, etc... I have 35 minutes of animation complete and I need to extend it to at least 45. So along with completely revising a wide angle scene, I also have found it necessary to seek other ways to extend some scenes, and the result is, the pilot episode of this series will not be complete until spring of 08. In any case, I'm sure it will be worth it, as I have committed myself to doing the best I can with this project and a few extra months of work is quite acceptable. For more on the complexity of this project and my situation in dealing with it, see my Project Log.
November 25,
2007:
99.99 percent of all the frames for the pilot episode have been revised and adjusted and most of all the video-clips that will compose the pilot are complete. I have been somewhat stuck on one particular scene, which has been slowing me down some, but everything else about the project is done, aside from a simple revision of a number of video-clips, which I'll be working on in the next couple of weeks. Once the frames are done, creating the video-clips is not only easy, but also the most enjoyable part of the project.
As always, the work has taken me longer than anticipated, so that now I can only hope that the video will be complete by Xmas, but the sound-track will probly not be added until January of 2008.
99.99 percent of all the frames for the pilot episode have been revised and adjusted and most of all the video-clips that will compose the pilot are complete. I have been somewhat stuck on one particular scene, which has been slowing me down some, but everything else about the project is done, aside from a simple revision of a number of video-clips, which I'll be working on in the next couple of weeks. Once the frames are done, creating the video-clips is not only easy, but also the most enjoyable part of the project.
As always, the work has taken me longer than anticipated, so that now I can only hope that the video will be complete by Xmas, but the sound-track will probly not be added until January of 2008.
September 24,
2007:
have completed the first draft of the pilot episode of the Lost Planet series, minus a sound-track, but before I can get into the sound-track, I will be reviewing the entire episode, from beginning to end (over 100 10 - 30 second clips) and revising, adjusting, and refining scenes wherever it looks necessary. I have also decided to add a scene to the beginning, so that the main character, Ron Querzo (co-pilot and navigator) begins the episode in the engine room rather than the corridor. I've worked on that scene now for one week and should have it complete by the end of september.
A complete review of the video should be done some time in October, and thereafter, I shall begin work on the sound-track. Hopefully, if all goes well, the complete 45 to 50 minute video will be in the can, sound-track and all, by Xmas or the New Year.
Older Updateshave completed the first draft of the pilot episode of the Lost Planet series, minus a sound-track, but before I can get into the sound-track, I will be reviewing the entire episode, from beginning to end (over 100 10 - 30 second clips) and revising, adjusting, and refining scenes wherever it looks necessary. I have also decided to add a scene to the beginning, so that the main character, Ron Querzo (co-pilot and navigator) begins the episode in the engine room rather than the corridor. I've worked on that scene now for one week and should have it complete by the end of september.
A complete review of the video should be done some time in October, and thereafter, I shall begin work on the sound-track. Hopefully, if all goes well, the complete 45 to 50 minute video will be in the can, sound-track and all, by Xmas or the New Year.