Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

I totally forgot to post this to my blog. Doh!

Here is edit #4-- shorter soundtrack and more footage. I have almost all of the material that we can use. The trick now: tweaking the stills and compositing the different layers of material. I haven't gone nuts: the most I have is 4 layers at any one point.

Here is today's edit of the filmed elements for the video that Alice and I are working on.

My wife and daughter conspired to give me a nice day today: I woke up to a bag of clay products (sculpey and plasticene) along with a copy of Rampage for the Wii and 2000 Wii Credits (200 quatloos on the newcomer!) Dim-sum brunch (wifey collected items from the Fisgard Market) I puttered on my PLR Hub module for Drupal (to tie into a nearly complete PLR Exchange module-- more on that later on my tech blog ). When the sun hit Cthulhu , I went out there, applied green-stuff putty in key spots; then laid down the remainder of my fibreglass. I came in, did some more work on the PLR Hub module; then kiddo and I started worked on the principal character for our upcoming, stop motion project (working title, "Crazy Frog on a Rocket"-- I refuse to divulge plot points). I did a quickie proof-of-concept demonstration of the claymation animation process in action. Happy Father's Day!

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