Random Mount & Blade Bullshittery - Update #9 (Patreon)

Right, sorted!!

The main principle editing has been (more or less) completed. Totaling up to about 25 minute and 30 seconds. The After Effects compositions, various art assets and static subtitles should be for the most part finished. All of the scenes should be in the correct places and in the right order. There are some rough edges, but it's together.

Corr blimey that was a lot of effort! Glad that's finished. So many compositions. My After Effects cache is going crazy!

Now there's still plenty to do. For now comes the quality assurance. It's time to scan through through looking for bits that I've missed, things that are obviously incorrect, or generally might need re-doing. One of the things I know I need to do is rekeyframe a few sequences that were too jittery. The masking on the castle walls needs work. Perhaps also remake some of the menu interfaces to be more centralized rather than at the bottom of the screen to reduce the distance people's eyeballs need to travel.

You often don't see these sorts of things until you step back and watch the full thing. Which is what I need to do now.

Also, I may have been a little bit cheeky and I've queued up about an extra two minutes of fresh footage from a recent stream. Two minutes that were quite comical in which I found myself getting captured by the enemy, with my allies then running off for a feast rather then letting me out of my cell. Which is something of a notorious Mount & Blade meme. The AI just randomly going "right it's time for a feast, lets go".

BUT I shall behave. This thing will never get finished if I keep moving the goalposts. I'll endevour to get what I've already edited polished and out to you. And then possibly work on those extra 2 minutes whilst you guys are sending me your opinions.

In other news, I'm gathering a lot of footage for things like Rising Storm, PUBG, Divinity 2 and Humans Fall Flat. I'm very confident I can make further episodes of bullshittery out of those.

The work continues...but thankfully now it's just polish :)