#project tips

[bioswear]

To all people who might ever start their own audioplay or voice project

Make sure you have a good production pipeline. The mistake of many projects is that the writers will be making episodes as they go, instead of completing an entire season 100% before releasing. Do not make episodes as you go. It only leads to high stress on both cast and crew, delays, production difficulties, and can be sloppy when you say "sorry for the delay" about something that should've been completed months ago. THAT AND ensure you have a clear way to determine who has their lines turned in and who doesn't. Google sheets is my new best friend and it saved production A LOT of time. BUILD YOUR WORLD BEFORE YOU START SCREENWRITING. BUILD YOUR CHARACTERS. WHO ARE YOUR CHARACTERS AND WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? For the love of whatever god you believe in: KEEP IN CONTACT WITH UR CAST AND CREW. Don't just leave a note somewhere that says "gone leaving." The number one way a cast loses interest in a project is when the director and person who CREATED the project suddenly disappears and is no longer able to be contacted and is just bippity boppity gone like ?????? That's so sloppy EDIT UR GODDAMN SCRIPTS. Mari and I always do at least two read throughs over call to see if anything sounds awkward or stupid. Editing is important and it's easy to tell when people have basically scratch dialogue instead of refined dialogue Anyway, I'm really passionate about helping people do creative projects since I'm an animation student and it's really nice to see people wanting to dabble in our industry.

[stitchgeekery]

Taming a long tail

Taming a long tail

I’m working on a project right now (yellow summer top) where I’ve deliberately left a long tail from my cast on, so I can use it at the end of the project in seaming up the pieces. But it’s long and dangly and gets in the way of course!

I could theoretically destroy the whole house searching for one of my elusive fair isle bobbins to wind it on, but A: I don’t feel like hunting in all my stuff…

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[bm-meteor]

Using Meteor js and grunt js together

meteor provides a lot of really cool build stuff right out of the box but at this point in it's development doesn't really let you dig into their build system and start adding your own build tasks. 

grunt js is very good at build tasks so you might think hey.. why not. 

if you follow all the general instructions on using grunt and apply them to your meteor project everything will work hunky dory, till you start up meteor again. 

she'll spit errors like no one's business because grunt requires some node packages to added to the meteor app directory and that causes conflicts galore with meteors own build system. 

there are a couple approaches you can try. the first is to put your entire meteor app in a directory below your grunt setup. 

/myApp/Gruntfile.js /myApp/meteorApp/.meteor  

this seems logical enough, since your working meteor app, is really the build product. 

until you're half way through a project and need to add grunt. causing all manner of hell with git, and all your established directories. 

there's also the question of how that affects deployment to sites like modulus--though, reasonably you'd probably just deploy from the "meteorApp" directory. 

another approach, and the one I'm trying, is to throw your grunt related stuff into the /tests. by default meteor ignores this directory and doing it this way seems like a less breaky-the-whole-world way of quickly adding some grunt to your app. 

happy grunting kids.

[kickstarter]

This is pretty freakin' fantastic. A must read for potential creators!

[kickstarter]

Update #4: How Else Can I Help? Artist Jesse Kuhn has designed a pretty clever way to promote his adorable adventure game project, The Departure Game. His most recent update encourages backers to print out + post the above flyer. Very cool!

[kickstarter]

Crowdfunding is more complex than that: When you have a funded project, people are already - literally and emotionally - invested in you. As with any investment, you want to make sure your supporter’s return-on-investment is maximized. Giving them what they paid for is good. But you want to give them more. Treat the people who supported your work not as customers, but as patrons - patrons in the old sense of the work. Think of them not as current supporters but as potential future supporters.

Sage advice from Conscientious Extended. Make sure to read the rest here.