Rough Cut Completed (Patreon)

The first stage of my paranoia has been alleviated: all the pieces fit together and the video makes sense. It runs about 11: 30, a good duration considering the script was 14 pages. Now comes the hard part.

The workflow for this episode is unusual because after a couple of intro scenes, most of it was shot with a different kind of camera. Before proceeding with VFX, I had to color-grade that part of the video in advance. I did this last night and BOY, it looks good.

In the picture, the upper panel shows the edit with the ungraded footage in the top track (pale green). It has lots of tiny cuts which are actually intricate speed-ramps within continuous shots. The lower panel shows that footage replaced with a graded version in orange.

As it stands, all of the stuff at the beginning requires elaborate VFX, most of the orange stuff needs some corrective VFX work and the gaps (where you see blue clips of voiceover) have to be filled with full-on traditional animation and motion graphics :O

14 days to do all that + sound.

HERE WE GO!