Part III Release
Well, it’s been about a week since Part III came out. As per the last episode, not much buzz on it, given my generally anemic approach to marketing. Listen, I got animations to do, I’ll focus on marketing later. In all honesty, I should focus more of my attention on getting the word out about this project, but I tend to drag my feet for several reasons. The first is that I still have such a long way to go, whether or not somebody watches the episodes now or later ultimately doesn’t make too much of a difference at the moment. The second is I’ve been kind of waiting for Part IV to come out. If Forlorn is a song, then Part IV is where the beat drops, so to speak. It’s where we get to the crux of the series, and so once that’s all animated and finished I’ll feel like I finally have something strong enough to really put out there. Either way, engagement was down across the board for Part III. I don’t take it too personally, as I think releasing an episode the day before Thanksgiving was probably a bad call. You’d think more people would be free to peruse the internet and stuff, but what do I know?
Anyhow, speaking of Part IV, that is coming along quite swimmingly. Only about 5…ish shots remain to be animated. I think I mentioned it before in one of the blog posts, but Part IV is the first episode since the first that I have had pretty much 100% confidence in how I wanted it to look. I didn’t waste any time playing with different acting or angles this time. And the other benefit is that this episode is very similar in places to the Pilot episode, and as a result I was able to pull some of the animation from a couple of those shots to save on time. At this rate, animation is absolutely going to be finished before the end of the year. And with things being what they are and my Holiday travels being what they are (cancelled), the amount of time I’ll have to put all the finishing polish on everything before the end of the year is considerable. There’s even a good chance I’ll be done with lighting and sound design by the time 2021 rolls around. So, I optimistically expect Part IV out by the latter half of January. And this time, I’ll try and let more people know. Until then, it’s back to work for me.
