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Hey thanks Tony! Definitely seems worth a try.

In my home home office, it's by no means a professional recording space. Just my USB mic hooked up to my laptop on a tripod in front of me. Plus aside from normalizing and noise removal ( not that there's a ton of noise, my mic is pretty good where that's concerned). I'm not a pro when it comes to audio.

Thanks Kathryn, very kind of you Been toying around with a new intro for the Breckridge Audiobook. Built the sealed corridor along with a stormy set and made the sequence below. Sorry it's so low res, Don't wanna render it out in HD until I'm totally happy with it. lightning_flash_test.mov Still tweaking and sound to add but there's always something else to do right Dan

Annie and I would like to thank all of the Hash community for your continued support.

Annie's pretty much done, just need to rig her fingers and eyes/lids and toy with making her transparent. Really happy with how her top turned out. Thanks Nancy by the way coming from you that's high praise.

Thanks Robert

Hey guys. It's been a while since I've posted something that's actually model based. So here's my work in process model of Annie Johnson, a key character from Breckridge. Whether she's friend of foe I'll leave you to surmise. But in case you're wondering, yes she's very much dead.

Breckridge episode 3 is up on blip.tv http://blip.tv/aceco/breckridge-by-dan-ske...apter-3-6687775 For anyone who's interested.

Hey Simon, yeah so long as it's stopping after the logo has finished and the chapter number has been displayed then it's meant to do that. I'll add more visual elements as and when I get them done. Currently sketching out designs for the central ghost character. The shadow in the window is meant to represent her but at the moment its a stand in. It's actually a 75% transparent model of an anime character called Mikuru Asahina made completely black to hide the fact that the model is a mess of tri poly's and then the arms quickly rigged to get her out of the T-pose. I'll replace her with the actual character when I've built her.

I use an M-Audio Vocal Studio USB Mic. Then clean up in Audacity.

Evening all, Breckridge Chapter 2 has been released over on the Ace.Co Entertainment Blip channel. http://blip.tv/aceco/breckridge-by-dan-ske...apter-2-6670980 and I built some more of the school.

Just wanted to let anyone who's interested know that Breckridge part 1 has been released. http://blip.tv/aceco/breckridge-by-dan-ske...apter-1-6661357 Hope you like it

Hey guys, I mentioned in my diary topic that I was working on a new audiobook project called Breckridge. It's a ghost story for anyone who's interested and takes place in and around Breckridge Secondary School in the fictional town of Southedge in the North of England. I also mentioned I was working on making Breckridge School to use as a visual aspect to the audiobook. Below is what I've got done so far. This part of the building is a geography classroom in the schools' south block, flanked by a girls bathroom on the left and a boys bathroom on the right. I know this because I'm basing the overall layout of the school on my old high school. The major difference being that I'll be adding a second floor to south block that doesn't exist but is necessary to accommodate the sealed corridor. Once I've built the second floor for this particular wall I'll add some gutters (Eaves trough's in North America) and then will have enough school to use as a photo in the first episode, which will be released over on Blip.tv/aceco. Thanks for looking

How do all, Another update post for anyone following what I'm up to. If you've ever visited the Ace.Co Entertainment page at www.Blip.tv/aceco . You'll have seen that I've started posting daily game play videos complete with commentary. These are easy and fun to do and crucially require very little in the way of editing (Literally syncing up the commentary with the game play and setting the volume of each clip). The idea being that I'm not only putting out regular content which means more views per month and the potential for higher revenue. But also that it gives me time to work on other projects without feeling like I'm not posting anything new. These projects include launching two Audio Book style shows. Parallel Worlds Episode 1 is already up and I'm currently working on 'Breckridge', a ghost story set in and around a school that may or may not be based on my old high school.... I intend to use A:M to enhance the listening experience with stills and brief animations, which is why right now I'm building Breckridge High School, classrooms and all. Only ever made one building before (the cabin for Epic Gamin') and one kitchen for the abandoned E.G fully animated series. So this should prove to be an experience. Dan

What's that? What's what? That thing in the sky. Oh that's just Gerry KNOCKING IT OUTA THE PARK!!

Ladies and gentlemen I have returned. Not that it appears that anyone even noticed I was gone. But yeah I'm back.

Lookin' nifty dude

Here's my new anime girl dressed. She still has no name

Are they boots or does he have really big hairy feet? Also it's a little unnerving that he's smiling....

Damn you work, you win this time!

Remember I said years ago that the original plan for E.G was an anime girl and a dragon. Well I added the dragon this year and now I have started the anime girl. Note the body is just thrown in there it's not the one I'll be using. Still need to work on her but she's comin' along

We animator types are an eclectic bunch of characters with diverse interests, so I was wondering. Is anyone watching Summer Slam tonight?

The way I see that a story should work is based on questions and answers. The beginning of the story should raise questions in the readers mind, the middle should offer some answers even if it only leads to more questions and the end should answer most if not all the questions. By that I mean the things that the reader accepts on faith due to an invisible bond of trust developed with the story teller, don't necessarily need to be explained. The Meta I guess is what I mean, the questions about the universe itself rather than those about the current story. That's why I think a lot of people were annoyed with the series lost. I loved the first series because it introduced strong characters and raised a lot of questions....and then the writers hardly answered any of them or copped out and said "We're leaving that up to your interpretation" I always read that sentence as "We made it up as we went along and don't really know"

Yeah I have no doubt that there's typos all over the place in the manuscript. I do my best to read through everything as I go along to keep it to a minimum but in my original writing plan (This was waaaaay back in the early 2000's) I was gonna get the thing written and then spend a month proof reading the crap out of it. But alas it never happened. Hell even the story never got finished (Well I know how it ends but I never wrote it down). As for posting the chapters I can post a chapter whenever. Just lemme know.