Arcaxon:
Hi all, seems as usual my estimates are always way too optimistic, this time though it is mostly due to a lot of things out of my control but despite that I still shouldn't give estimates if they are not assured since I am quite bad at them.
The good news is, that this is tru...
2023-09-30 05:37:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! You get Fredrik this week for the progress update. Poor Arcaxon caught cold this week, but he was able to make significant progress. He's currently finishing up the most complicated map covering the most recent war, describing PAPI moving in on the Imperium's territory. We'll be mee...
2023-09-18 03:37:40 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, progress on the FINAL section is going well with 21% of it completed already on a somewhat turbulent week. if I keep the pace I do believe the video might be finished BEFORE September ends! 🎉
Today is my Birthday (September 10th), and I'm still disappointed I cou...
2023-09-11 20:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, sorry for the long amount of time between the updates.
I've recovered fairly well from my tooth surgery but I'll be honest it really threw me out of the tempo and has made it harder for me to work.
Thankfully though we're at the end and I have now finished all other se...
2023-09-02 04:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Fredrik this week. Arc is coming out of his convalescence after his surgery which went well! The pain is manageable for him with pain meds and he's healing quickly, though he says he misses solid foods. He says he's feeling well enough now to return to work tomorrow after I pressure...
2023-08-21 23:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo everyone it's me once more, I'm still on track with my work! I've finished Section 23 and 24! (Fred misheard what I said last update, by the time of the update I was done with section 23 but not 24 ...
2023-08-13 01:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone, it's Arcaxon for another weekly update!
So this week was a bit ruff for me but I still managed to basically get 2 sections done this one week! (as is my current pace) Secti...
2023-08-07 22:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is what a timeline looks like with nearly all relevant assets.
The vast bulk of my work is now completed; all that remains is a polish pass where I'll add the characteristic zooms, tweak audio slightly, highlight quoted text, and add text where necessary, including credits. Each orange...
2023-07-29 04:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostSince I'm mostly just waiting on Arcaxon, my graphic designer, we agreed that it would make sense for him to provide progress updates, as well! He's a huge sweetheart and has really been put through the wringer lately, but is still working hard to get his work done so we can get this video out to...
2023-07-22 06:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I lost the last few days of work last week due to a trip I had to take a bit earlier than I thought I would, so I'll be finishing up the principle editing this week. However, the rate at which I complete editing is mostly immaterial now, as my graphic designer, Arcaxon, will need lo...
2023-07-11 04:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Progress continues at an uneven pace.
Above, you can see that four hours of the video have been plotted out with source images and video. Each orange line is a marker denoting a spot that needs some bit of minor work done to it, such as highlighting text for quotes, each a small amount of w...
2023-07-01 03:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe past week has been profoundly frustrating. On multiple occasions, sites that I've referenced in the script seem to have succumbed to link rot in between writing the script and editing, and I spent hours at a time searching for them in archives. Given that, I'm completed about half an hour les...
2023-06-24 04:47:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Apologies for the lack of progress update last week; there were some family matters that got in the way (please forgive my vagueness, it's been a bit difficult and has taken the wind out of my sails) but I'm back! Progress has been a bit plodding but steady. The animations are, as w...
2023-06-17 03:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostWith the music completed and the narration cut together and timed to it, my graphic designer Arcaxon and I continue to trudge through the trenches. Given that we tend to work at around the same time as each other throughout the day, we've taken to sitting in a Discord call as we do so that he can...
2023-06-03 01:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, I can finally give you all a precise runtime for the new Down the Rabbit Hole: 5 hours, 55 minutes, and 14 seconds.
This week has not been a terribly productive one for me personally for Down the Rabbit Hole; other responsibilities unexpectedly t...
2023-05-27 05:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The first hour and forty minutes is now edited. Progress this week was slower than I would like due to being a bit unwell, but given that I still need some graphic work from Arc, my current pace is still at the rate that I need to get it done as soon as possible.
In the tim...
2023-05-20 01:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Big update today.
I was planning on posting last week's update a bit later so I could share the feedback from early viewers, but I figured that it would be better to just wait for this weeks' update and give you all a large one.
First off: the first hour of the new vide...
2023-05-13 03:02:14 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the late progress update, I was nursing what I believe to be an illness I contracted from my trip a couple of weekends ago and an extremely busy weekend. I'm feeling better now, but my lethargy during the week left me mostly in bed or on the couch and relatively useless.
Arcax...
2023-05-01 05:23:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe past week I myself haven't been able to accomplish much for the new video due to a road trip I took with Brian of Regular Car Reviews to help him film a couple of episodes, as well as desperately catching up on sundry things that have fallen by the wayside due to things that had to be complet...
2023-04-21 23:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello! The major thing that was accomplished this week was that all of the narration has been edited, and when combined with the scant time given over for other audio, placed end to end, it runs for 5 hours, 41 minutes, and 26 seconds, which means that the video will be about 6 hours long, in lin...
2023-04-15 04:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostToday, I come to you with a small animation from Arc, who's making quick progress on the animations (now that most of the placeholder assets have been replaced) while I work on editing. As a little teaser, here's a work-in-progress gif of an animation that Arc is doing to describe the merchant ra...
2023-04-08 06:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostBoring progress update this time, no major milestones, all of us are just plugging away at our respective responsibilities. The largest milestone is that Ryan is finishing up the last of the music; late in the script's production, a couple of extra sections got added, and so no music had been wri...
2023-04-01 04:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostA somewhat flashy update for you all this time: Arcaxon has just completed the maps that we will use to chart the movements and locations of players in New Eden! Rather than mapping out all 5,201 stars, we chose instead to use the constellations, which still created a daunting task for him, but i...
2023-03-25 03:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostAll narration has now been recorded.
I intended to have it done Monday, but I had an urgent family matter to attend to. Still, I was able to go a bit longer than usual tonight and get it all done. Looking at what I've recorded, it looks like the video will be just over six hours long, as es...
2023-03-18 05:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostMy estimations from last week have held: I only have one final recording session remaining before the narration will be complete. I have a few more edits to the script to make before I can record it, and so I'll use my time this weekend to do that so that I can have it completed ...
2023-03-11 03:43:52 +0000 UTC View PostA couple days late, but progress continues as ever.
The most exciting thing to report is that Ryan has begun sending the parts to Naomi, our returning saxophonist, for the soundtrack.
Right now, I've recorded just over the first four hours of narration, and I just need to make some ad...
2023-03-06 04:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostA rather dull progress update; work continues, much as it has the previous weeks. However, what I can share is how the work pipeline has changed, for those who are interested.
Previously, I've recorded all of my narration in a single day in order to maintain a similar tone throughout the vi...
2023-02-25 04:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The first approximately three hours of narration have now been recorded, though I've decided that I want to re-record section 2 since I'm generally unhappy with how it sounds and I have to keep re-recording parts of it anyways. (At one point, I mudmouthed the word "world" in much the same way tha...
2023-02-18 05:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe've hit a milestone with the first two hours of the narration now recorded! About half of this narration has been edited together, which is a bit of a tedious process, but progress is steady. Some of the sections are only partially edited since I realized I had to re-record a c...
2023-02-11 05:43:07 +0000 UTC View PostShort update this week.
Work was admittedly a bit slow this week, but I did manage to have a meeting with ProGodLegend, who went over one of the last sections of the video with me talking about the most recent war, of which there hasn't been much coverage. I've begun work adding a little bi...
2023-02-04 06:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post