Update: The Saga of The Cursed Episode!

OK, who hexed this episode? :)

Was set to program the weekend away, so, of course, all of my notes vanished into the ether. All of them. The numbers I need to code all of the animation? Eaten by some strange note-eating monster in my house. !@#$^%(*&^%$#@ I spent the 90+ degree weekend scouring the house, to no avail.

So, I just recreated the notes. Will work on coding over the next few days. Will get this episode done if it kills me.

Accounting

Hi there.

No, it's not finished yet. I'm sorry.

This episode has been rather challenging. I had LASIK surgery in January with mixed results, limiting my ability to stare at a computer screen for the required time. A cast member had a death in the family. Seasonal depression was extended by several weeks because I live in the Grey Hell of Upstate NY. I'm learning a new tool that, in theory, will make editing easier but there's a steep learning curve and I'm slow. I'm about halfway through the worst of the programming right now, after which there will be a week of editing. I'm hoping to get the programming done in the next couple days, but expect it to be closer to another week as I've hit a really thorny snag and have to decide how to work around it.

On the plus side, I've managed to sketch out the remainder of the first story arc, and will be able to write scripts and record audio much faster. So, hopefully, this will be back on a more frequent schedule very soon.

Blargh.

Queens of King's Blooper Reel #1: The F Word

While I gather content for Episode 6 (recording vocals this week), I've decided to do some very quick blooper reels. The video is cobbled together from previous work so I won't have to spend time animating it when I should be working on the episode, but the soundtrack is the gang and I screwing up. Hope you enjoy, and I'll program as fast as I can, I swear! :)

Episode 5 fixed

I've gotten some complaints about the audio in Episode 5, so I posted a fix. Here it is.

FINALLY! Episode 5 - Waking the Dead

The thrilling conclusion to Episode 4. Sorry it took so long to get this episode out... busy summer, uncooperative editing tools, and general mayhem has prevailed for a while now. The next episode may take a while to get out. I have a very busy couple months ahead of me, then there's the whole holiday mess. I'm hoping to have it out before the new year.

Thanks for waiting!

One. Single. Scene.

Not even a full scene. One small set of shots. Editing combat blows, especially when the !@#^!#&!^%!$#*%!#$!^ FINAL CUT WON'T DO WHAT IT'S TOLD!!!!!!! I have a concussion from beating my head on my desk, my monitor, the walls, etc.

Ahem. This episode is finished tonight, or I eat my Mac. Seriously. I'll do it. I've got the fork ready.

AAAAAAAUGH!

Sincerely,
Liz Reay
Very Angry Animator

WOOT!

Ok, for those of you following the play-by-play: I found a serviceable audio program (FREE Hi-Q Recorder) that has allowed me to get the combat audio I needed. Tomorrow will be spent doing final tweaks/sound effects and finally cutting this bad boy together into actual movie form.

Thanks for your patience. This summer's been insane, I've been slammed at every turn, running around every weekend, playing catch-up during the week, and generally out of my head for the past couple of months. With luck, I'll be back to my crappy roughly-2-month update schedule (or, hopefully, somewhat better than that) after I release this one.

Huzzah!

OK, all video has been captured. There's still some quirkiness with the audio, but it seems that demolition in my neighborhood has stopped, so it'll be fixed hopefully by tomorrow night. Give me a day or two for assembly, and cross every appendage, and I should have it up by the weekend. That is, if I can find a way to capture audio from a demo playback that DOESN'T sound like its been filtered through pure unadulterated white noise.

Anyone know any good audio capture programs? MCIRecorder is sucking my will to live.

Urge to kill rising...

OK, here's the status:

I am one filming scene (to be finished today) and some audio editing away from getting this thing put together and out to you guys.

Challenge: Someone, I kid you not, is RIPPING UP PAVEMENT two houses away. Even with my noise-cancelling headset I can't hear for crap. As soon as I think they're done, BWAAAM!!!!!

Gaaaah. I'm hoping I'll be able to concentrate enough to even get the filming finished.

Grrrrrrr....

A blast from the past!

Not a Queens of King's, but an animation nonetheless. This was my very first City of Heroes film, a project with my husband and our friend Jesse for a Cryptic Studios fan video contest. It's very rough compared to my current work, but amusing nonetheless.

New blog!

Hey there!

I've started a new linked blog for Crazy Raven Productions updates, news, and associated stuff. Now you too can hear my lameass excuses for not getting the next episode up RIGHT NOW YOUNG LADY!!! *ahem*

So, if you're interested, you can find it at http://crazyravenproductions.blogspot.com/ There'll be a link in the sidebar as well.

Much love,
--Liz Reay

Queens of King's Episode 4: Team Players

Ellen and Anne team up to rescue a retired superhero in the sewers of King's Row.

Queens of King's Party!

Episode 4 debuts on Sunday, July 1... join Raid, Pete and Yarr for a party at Pocket D on Justice from 1-5 PM!!!

Queens of King's Special Edition: Oh, Statie!

A special newsflash: Statesman, that wacky doer-of-good, announces his plan to invade the Rogue Isles and capture Arbiter Sands. Shh. Nobody tell Sands. He'll never know what hit him!

Episode 3.25 - Coming Soon

The creator of Queens of King's has a few words for those who look forward to the next episode.

The full story: Hi, I'm Liz. I make the show, and I'm a slack-ass bitch. It's been a busy couple of months for me, so work on the show has been slow going. Audio is nearly completed recording-wise for the next two episodes, plus a couple short vids that I'm hoping you guys will enjoy.

Queens of King's Episode 3: Field Work

First, I'd like to thank everyone for their patience...the mid-winter blues made this kinda slow-going. But it is done. Yay!

In this episode, Anne works while Ellen and Pete go off and play.

Episode 3 coming in February

Hey all,

Just wanted to reassure people that episode 3 is in progress... it's just running a bit slow due to the holidays and a bit of illness on my end. On the plus side, I got my annual ER visit out of the way early. :) All is well now, all audio has been recorded, and I'm rarin' to go on the programming/filming end.

Thanks for your patience!

Much love,
Liz Reay

Episode 2 - Orientation

Anne and Ellen head out into the heroing world and learn it's not all spandex and glory.

EDIT: Special thanks to Altoholic Monkey from the Repeat Offenders for one of my favorite lines in this episode ("healing arrow") :)

Episode 1 - Pilot

Introducing Ellen "Cosmic Rewrite" Carter, Anne "Captain Yarr" Barker, Captain Rum "Dude in the eyepatch" Baker, and "Flamey Pete" Jacobs.