Fixing broken bits

Some things are still messed up both here and on the Pink Lemonade site, notably the production diary there and the header graphic here. I am aware of those problems and will be fixing them as I'm able to do so.

Also, the anniversary animations shown below are now available in higher resolution on Youtube, replacing the smaller ones from Revver.

• Part 1: Ariel's High Sorcery
• Part 2: Daydream: What To Do? (with the Master and the cat)
• Part 3: Epilogue (with Ariel and Faen)

There have been other developments in this time as well, of course, but nothing I think would be relevant to the interests of this news feed.

Drowtales 6th anniversary animation all complete

This year's anniversary animation is up. I'm very happy with these, and I consider them to be some of my best work ever. Check it out!

Revver Item trailer

And here's the The Item trailer.

Contest entry

For fun and practise, I did this very short animation for a small contest. I call it "How Not to Pass Through Airport Security: Righteous Indignation", in keeping with my more recent propensity for long titles. The audio is from the movie Penn & Teller Get Killed. (I recommend clicking that little "full screen" button for it.)

Oh, and the right-justification of the video with word-wrap is an experiment on my part, to see if it looks better than just having the video take up the entire horizontal space.

Better trailer (or, Revver wins over YouTube)

Okay, forget YouTube. I've replaced the Apprentice embedded trailer (on the Apprentice page) from YouTube with an embedded trailer from Revver. Bigger video size (480x360 on Revver vs 320x240 on YouTube) and much, much better compression quality, and a great fullscreen mode. Oh, and the ability to select the still image that shows before you click play, which YouTube doesn't offer. Compare for yourself:

   

Notice the fuzziness and general lack of detail in the YouTube version in comparison, as well as the bad compression squares on any scene change. I'll do the same with the other trailers as I have time.

Current developments

For the past few months I've been working full time on various commercial projects for hire -- commercials (view here, the two 2D animations, not the 3D one), web stuff, and more recently a web series called Cheap Secrets. I've been learning new software, and making new breakthroughs and developments in my methods. Upcoming work includes more Cheap Secrets, another Drowtales anniversary animation, and a contest entry, not to mention the ever-present Pink Lemonade.

I've also put up the older Item and Apprentice trailers onto Youtube, just to add a viewing option to the venerable old AVI and MPEG trailers that have been on this site. I'll probably add Google Video later, since it has better video quality.

New animation online!

Drowtales 4th birthday animation (not the same one as in the Picture Post box at the moment -- that's the 3rd birthday animation).

Edit: Well! Looks like it got #1 Daily Feature there. That's a first, for me! Previously, the highest I've gotten was Daily 2nd place.  

Edit2: Today the animation got placed on the front page of Newgrounds. Another honour! Welcome to visitors from there. Check the picture post box on the right for a couple of animations that are not available on Newgrounds.

New animation

This was finished a while ago, but for visitors who did not see it elsewhere, It's the Non-Canonical Joke Minute! Newgrounds visitors looking for more information specifically on Pink Lemonade, click here.