Slight Delay on “Silent HilLOL”

Going to take a little longer to finish “Silent HilLOL”, have gotten some of the voice acting in which is great, but I want to make sure my animation doesn’t look like crap, which the last shot I finished needs some more work and I’m going to try to add in a few other things to make this a better project.

Its feeling a little rushed and a little slow in some areas so I’m going to try to fix that, I’ll have everything completed shortly and should have it uploaded on my YouTube channel on Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

Xmas is taking up some of my time, which cant be helped, but I wont let it slow me down too much.

Hope everyone is managing to get through Xmas in once piece.

Silent HilLOL

I’m a little behind schedule on this new animation, I got ill a few days ago and lost a lot of production time.

So I’ve been catching up, there will be five short segments in this episode, I have three completed, and the 4th is about halfway done. The only snag right now is that I have to make my own music, which isn’t bad as I can make some simple tunes.  But it is more time consuming.

So hopefully Monday will be the day I have the new animation up.

Here’s hoping.

Little Late on the Update

Made it up here to Oregon safe and sound, but quite tired. The day has been very draining from the 12 hour train ride, the two hour shuttle into town ride, and the overall lack of real sleep.

But I do have everything situated to get back to working on my projects promptly after a good night’s rest.

It would be nice to get some work done after a two day hiatus; thanks to everyone for watching the New Survivors clip on YouTube.

I really do appriciate your interest in my little works.

Hope you all have safe holiday travels like me, but manage to get more sleep.

Left 4 LOL 2: The New Survivors

Well I finally got this little animation done, despite the fact it should have been done a week ago, I got sick and then there’s the change in my travel plans (moving up north for a few months).

But here it is.
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A Bit of Sad News

The other day it was reported and confirmed that Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka has left Konami. I won’t lie, the last two Silent Hill games weren’t all that grand, though Homecoming was better than The Room, since Team Silent disbanded after Silent Hill 3, Yamaoka-Sama has been the one consistent element in the series as a whole. Even if the games were only so-so Yamaoka-Sama’s music was always amazing and always consistently good.

He was the last member of the original Silent Hill development team helping create the games, and now hes gone. It really is the end of an era, while the RE series has always replaces the development teams and had different composers, directors, and designers… Silent Hill has always had Yamaoka-Sama’s music.

This is a very sad year for survival horror, SH: Homecoming ended up being only an “ok” game, Resident Evil 5 ended up being a terrible remake of Resident Evil 4, only with a very stupid story and the death of its most popular character, but the loss of Akira Yamaoka is incredibly saddening. I guess that survival horror has truly died now.

On the brighter side I have most of the Left 4 LOL wallpaper completed and am positive it’ll be finished within the week, but as I am now in the process of moving my time will be a little limited.

Hopefully next Friday I’ll have a new wallpaper completed.

That’s all for now, see you on Monday.

Left 4 Dead 2 Mass Open Beta Testing?

Ok, as I cant work as fast as I want to on animating my complaints, I’m gonna get this off my chest, Left 4 Dead 2 feels INCREDIBLY shoddy. There is so much wrong with the game right now I’m considering not playing it anymore until they fix some of these issues. I can’t believe I haven’t noticed some of this crap earlier.

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Site Changes and More…

Unfortunately my arm hasn’t improved much and I haven’t been able to do any work on the left4lol wallpaper this week, as Thanksgiving was this week I hope you all understand.

The holiday season is almost over thankfully, just one month of insanity to deal with. I’m having some trouble getting my bearings together due to recovering from tendinitis as well as the stupid X-mas commercials that seem to cover the country like an unholy satanic ritual.

I’m trying to find a way to simplify the LOL Series art style so I can stream line my work a little easier.

Hopefully I’ll have some luck in that area soon. That’s all for this week, hope you all had a good thanksgiving.

Little, Little Update

Unfortunately I haven’t had time to finish the wallpaper, had a little family thing to deal with yesterday.

I spent today planning out the ‘Lol series’ and I”m going to shoot for 9 episodes, the 9th episode will be ‘Left4lol:Survive this’

The ‘Lol series’ will be different than what you might expect. Instead of having a 3-4 minute animated shot, I’m going to have a series of 30-45 second shorts.

The idea is that I can finish the individual shorts faster than I could a 3-4 minute piece. After working hard on a project I found out my wrist still isn’t completely healed and have had to cut back on work a little more.

Very difficult to have to limit the amount of work I do when I have so much of it to do… Well this week will be a little bit of a reverse than the usual update schedule, the blog post is today (Monday) and the content will be uploaded on Friday.

Catch you laters.

The LOL Series

Its been a strange week here at OBP (Outside Box Productions), I’ve had a wrist guard on for a week now due to a bout of tendinitis in the wrist, 10 years of animating, and 25 years of drawing seems to have caught up with me a little.

I’ve also been sick and the damn cold has been lingering for a day or so, as a result I haven’t been able to get any new content for the website going. Granted the release Left 4 Dead 2 has also cut into my time too.

Since I am no longer a Newgrounds animator I’ve been mulling over a different series of animations for YouTube. So I’m going to stick with what I know of: making fun of survival horror as a whole, not just Left 4 Dead. So the LoL series will expand to Resident Evil and Silent Hill as well, (“Resident EvLOL” and “Silent HilLOL” to be exact).

I’m looking basically at about 7-8 little 30-45 seconds toons that will be posted twice a month on my YouTube channel. Since I have to take things easy for a little while “Left 4 LOL: Survive This” wont be up until next year, possibly mid-January. Still at about the halfway point of the project which is nice, but I can’t dedicate the time needed on it for another month or so.

Thanks all for now, I’ll hopefully have the full screen “Left 4 LOL” wallpaper completed on Monday.