Almost Finished! (Blog) (Patreon)

So it's been a bit of a busy and unnecessarily stressy week thanks to my day job this week, but I did manage to sit down and blitz a lot of the final editing stages in the last couple of evenings...

So much so, that the chances of this video happening for my ideal goal of next Friday (the 26th) is looking a lot more likely!

As a bonus for you guys, here's the custom Petronious logo I'll be using for this video's branding...

As for the video, the bulk of the editing work is done, the camera shots have been filmed and edited into the rest of the project and a lot of key framing has been finished!

The camera segments will have some fairly basic spooky lighting to set the mood, but nothing too spooky as the game... isn't really all that spooky.

It's actually the same lights I used for my Halloween videos from last year, but the overall tone of the video feels much more like that I was going for with Dead Head Fred, the previous year.  

All that needs to be done is the intro needs filming, some more key-framing needs doing for transitions between gameplay clips, and a photo needs to be taken to go onto the thumbnail and then it's DONE and I can concentrate on other things.

The intro should prove to be interesting if I can make it look right... I'm essentially trying to recreate a scene from a film that will require a bit of green screen malarkey to make it look right... but I have an entire day on Sunday to make that happen so I'm going to sure as hell try!

I'm also trying to figure out the best way to get my end-slate looking, and if you have any suggestions or want to send me any templates to try out, go for it!

I'm trying to ensure you guys have your names here as that's my way of saying thanks but I'm also trying to fit that into the main "click here to see other videos" part of the endslate.

The idea being that because I still run a fairly small channel, I'd ideally want those cards appearing as soon as possible after the video ends...

So I'm unsure whether to go with a static image, or some scrolling text...? I'll have to decide soon either way, but yeah if you have any ideas throw them my way!

Anyways, that's pretty much it from me for now. I'm fairly certain the next blog post will be for progress on what's coming up after this Halloween video...

Spyro isn't out until Mid November so I have something specific in mind to fill the time... but more on that another time.

So yeah, hopefully all this can be done with in the middle of next week ready for publishing on Friday!

Cheers,

- Pete