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Dec
17
2011

24 in 24 Twenty Eleven is finally uploaded.

We’ve finally finished compiling and uploading 24 in 24 Twenty Eleven.

It’s been a pretty draining couple of weeks. We only got to our 20th animation on the day before we completely burnt out and couldn’t go on any longer. Over the next few days I was determined to finish off the remaining 4, but it was so draining even trying to completely a minimal amount of animation. I’m noly just recovering from a pain in the upp shoulder that I developed over the day from using the mouse for such a long period.

It’s a bummer that we couldn’t get them all finished in the allocated time, but we’re overall happy with the quality this year, even if some of them turned out rather cringe-worthy. Josiah Brooks did the male voices for the Toast and Cloud series, and he did a fantastic job. We used some of the left over audio to create other animations such as Gross Nyan Cat. Hania Lee did the voice for Toast’s daughter, Katie. We’ll probably do an extended version of Fez Guy at some point.

Doing this project was a reminder how much I need to start getting out a few smaller projects in between my larger films. Getting one film out per year lets me really focus on quality, but it’s not exactly sustainable in the long run unless I’m continuously growing my fan base by periodically releasing content.

I’ve separated out some of the videos from 24in24 and made them into their own submissions on youtube. One video contains only the episodes from Toast and Cloud, and another is just Gross Nyan Cat. They aren’t really substantial enough for my to post them as individual submissions on Newgrounds I don’t think. It’ll be interesting to see if it’s beneficial in the end.

Thanks to everyone who tuned into the live broadcast to contribute their ideas!

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Dec
01
2011

24in24 Live again this Saturday

  • Live from 8am, Saturday the 3rd of December, Brisbane Australia time.
  • Watch it on Ustream here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/james-lee-animation

    • Hania and I are once again doing our 24in24 challenge. For those who missed out last year, the idea is simple; we aim to create 24 individual animated pieces in the space of 24 hours. The idea was inspired by the 24 Hour Comic Day; an event started by comic guru Scott McCloud. All art, animation and music must be created within the day. Our viewers are able to communicate with us via chat, and give ideas on what they’d like to see animated. The interactivity aspect between us and the viewers played a major role and was a lot of fun last year.

    For everyone around the world, your local start time will be different. Here’s a few different times depending on where you are.

    8:00 a.m. Saturday December 3, 2011 in Australia/Brisbane
    9:00 a.m. Saturday December 3, 2011 in Australia/Sydney/Melbourne
    5:00 p.m. Friday December 2, 2011 in America/New_York
    2:00 p.m. Friday December 2, 2011 in America/Los_Angeles
    10:00 p.m. Friday December 2, 2011 in Europe/London

    You can work out your own local time here http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-b in/tzc.tzc

    The format the same this year, but hoping to improve on the overall quality compared to last year. We’re aiming to do more voice work and reduce the number of ‘filler’ pieces that we did last year. We’ll be trying our best to end it with something great, as opposed to last year’s lackluster 24th animation.

    We’ll be keeping names of people who contribute as we go, so that we can place the in the credits at the end once it’s all compiled. While we’ll make every effort to note down everyone’s name, due to the time constraints, it’s very easy to have someone slip through the radar. As such, we can’t guarantee that everyone who contributes will end up in the credits, but we’ll do everything we can.

    Last year we broke our promised to have the final piece compiled and up on Newgrounds and Youtube within 2 hours of completion and got it in late. We aren’t making that promise this year, as we’ll be so fatigued at the end that it will be too easy to mess up the final release due to a stupid tired mistake. We’ll try and get it out the next day, but allow up to a week if there are any technical difficulties during compositing.

    We hope to see the same faces from last year, as well as some new ones this year. It’ll be fun for all, so tune in and help us out!

    Here’s our 24in24 from last year.

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    Sep
    08
    2010

    24 animations in 24 hours – Live this Saturday via webcam

    This Saturday the 11th of September, starting at 8am Australian time, we’re going to be doing 24 animations in 24 hours. You’ll be able to watch the process live here http://www.stickam.com/24in24

    24 in 24 is a personal challenge for ourselvess. We have several rules that we’ve set.

    - Each animation (and it’s music) must be started and finished within the 24 hour period.

    - Animation will be submitted to Newgrounds, Youtube and tarboy.com within the hour after finishing.

    - Pre-designed resources such as textures and brushes are allowed.

    - Preloader and title graphics are made before hand.

    We pretty much expect that the quality of the animation may deteriorate over time. But the point of the exercise isn’t to create polished animation, it’s to create the best animation that we can under pressure, and to hopefully learn something new along the way. Check out our progress along the way, and shout out any ideas you have, it’d be cool to see if we can make this as interactive as we can :)

    You can also follow my progress on Twitter here www.twitter.com/jameslee03

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