Onwards and Upwards

We've slowly been expanding the website. I've added another process page and have the Antics details to load up as well. We're putting on multiple download version over the coming months along with loading into YouTube and Google Videos.

The problem with YouTube is they only accept 10 mins max and CS is 11m 30s. So initially we are going for 2 parts but it may mean a recut.

Antics have just released Version 3 which is looking very funky and also now has a basic version for free. So if you haven't tried it yet give it a go. They've revamped their website and have a budding community... along with plenty of competition in with MovieStorm who seem they are just up the road in Cambridge!

Anyway, Antics are keen for me to do some work with them. It looks like I will be invited to a workshop to comment on what to get in for future releases. Very exciting. I'm also going to pitch putting together a promo for them (and me). So it'll be back to hacking heavily in Antics - looking forward to creating something new again!!

Watch this space for developments...
Pete

The end of The Making Of...

I think that’s all for the backdated blog. There’s a few more entries after we posted the movie up but I’ll add those in as I go along.

So, where are we 7 months (wow!) after entering Cold Storage onto the MySpace competition?

Well we didn’t win :-( but there weren’t any animations in the final 12 shortlist. We got good feedback from friends and a few independent nods.

The next task was to really get it out there. The obvious place is YouTube but we didn’t want to miss the inevitable spike in traffic and wanted to drive it to a new Cold Storage Movie site. So, I started building that… and 6 months later I’m finished! Not because it’s a massive site but other things get in the way – like the rest of my life, work, etc!

The recent focus of energy to finish the site has come because Antics have seen Cold Storage and love it! They want to showcase it and I may work with them to do an Antics promo. I’ll be talking to them very soon.

And of course, there’s always the next project. Film-wise for me it’s going to be “The Killer Job” although I may do a few smaller things as I continue to develop the script. I want it to be a live shoot, 90 minute, horror film. So I might start a new blog for that…

So keep coming back for updates for Cold Storage and our other films...