An Update on Life

I think I have somewhere around three or four blogs on the internet because I keep forgetting the password and the username to them. Well, this blog should be good for awhile. I still know the login for this blog. A lot has happened for me lately! The most recent machinima I've posted, Astral, is my first Sims 3 music video, and the first music video I've made in two years. When I was thinking about buying The Sims 3 to check it out I talked to an old buddy, Pyro, who has made a few Sims 3 machinima videos. I asked him how he liked the new game, and he said it was good but he didn't know enough to give me some good advice. I took the plunge anyway and bought the game. I played The Sims 3 total 10 hours before I started making machinima with it. I made a short video called "Chase" to get my feet wet with the new game. I had no idea what I was doing. I just got really lucky getting the shots for the short. After I posted The Chase I had no idea what kind of music video I wanted to make. Mostly because I didn't know the game as well as I needed to. One day I was watching a few of my old videos and I came across a video I made in 2006 called Astral. I thought The Sims 3 would be perfect to remake that video, the way it should've been.

About a month since The Sims 3 version of Astral has been out it has just broke 4,000 views. I'm happy about that. It's pretty disappointing when a person spends a lot of time on a machinima and not many people get to watch it. That happens because the video doesn't get the right kind of exposure. Those things take time. I sent the video to The Sims 3 and they put it on their favorites. I'm glad it worked out.

I've been working on live action film for the past three weeks. Things seem like they are winding down with that. I try to put a new video out on youtube every month. Because I do live action, animation, and machinima I won't always post machinima. I've been slowly working on 3D animation for the past three months. When it's complete, that will be the next thing I post on youtube. Look out for that sometime in the future. I don't post my live action stuff on my nittens youtube channel. It's just a rule I have for my nittens stuff. I tell you my movie making patterns so when you don't see a video from me in awhile, you'll know why. I'm always making some kind of video.

I don't know the exact dates for every video, but here are some rough deadlines I give myself. The live action stuff isn't going up on the nittens channel.

April 22 2011: We Believe - Live action
May 12 2011: Untitled - 3D animation
May 31 2011: Spring - Live action
June 16 2011: Untitled - The Sims 3 Machinima

So there you have it! All my ramblings in one blog. Peace