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Arches Part 2: Update 3

As of yesterday I've gotten about 31 minutes of video edited and rendered... which, after finally keeping track of my time management for this project, is the result of an accumulated 12 hours of work. Editing really is a bitch, but I can't say I'm not pleased with the results! There was an entire phone sequence (if you know you know) that was incredibly difficult to put put together, but after listening to it this morning, I think I fucking nailed it! I honestly think its some of my best work and I'm really excited to share it with you all.

As I've been editing this part, I've also been taking notes on how I can improve my directing of Advent as he does Cameron's lines. The main one being, I'm really gonna have to make sure he speaks up. What sounds good to my ear (as I sit on the kitchen counter outside the laundry-room/recording-closet) doesn't always translate perfectly through the microphone... and that's added on top of not being able to just reschedule when there is ambient noise going on, which there often is. So just be forewarned, his audio will sound a bit rough in places and there just isn't anything I can do about it at this point.

The only thing left for me to record is the final stretch of the narration, I've tried a couple times already but my voice just wasn't cooperating with me those days, so until I get another chance I'm going to keep chipping away at the video editing until I run out of usable audio.

I think at the current pace of progress the video should be ready for release in a couple weeks.

On an unrelated note, the new Resident Evil movie is actually really good. The trailers only really showed the first part of the film and a later sequence without the VFX. So if you want to be pleasantly surprised by a horror-comedy that's also a game-adaptation, give it a watch.

6 days ago | [YT] | 0

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Arches Part 2: Update 2

Got the rest of Cameron's lines recorded with my friend today, along with about 3/4 of the narration. This part is longer than I was expecting it to be, but I should be able to finish that tomorrow, and maybe even Devon's lines if my voice allows it.

Wooo progress!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

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Arches Part 2: Update 1

I'm very excited for the next part, spoopy things finally start happening.

So far half of Cameron's lines have been recorded and edited. All of Dani's lines have been recorded, and about half the narration has been recorded. It'll probably be a bit before scheduling allows for the other half of Cameron's lines to be recorded, so for now I'm going to focus on recording the rest of the narration, Devon's lines and working with what I have for the rest of the audio.

It's still too early to guess when I'll have the video ready, but it's development is well underway!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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Alright, update time!

After some minor health-related issues I finally have all of the audio for Arches Part 1 recorded and edited.... had to read the narration 6 different times and had over 3 hours of audio that edited down to a mere 17 minutes, but I GOT IT DONE! WHOOOO!

For any of you who like to read along with the VN's text, I wound up having to make a bunch of small tweaks to the narration to make it make sense to me and flow more naturally (there were several times I was confused as to what it was saying until I re-read it several times, so I did my best to fix that). Some of you may be able to notice the seams, but I'm hoping once the music is added and the character dialog splits it up, it won't really be noticeable.

I have a week-long trip coming up and I'm hoping to have the video ready for upload by Saturday. Buuuut if I miss that deadline I wanted to make sure y'all knew what was up before another week passed without an update.

So yeah, the new video is nearly done, and I'm really excited to put this labor of love out there for you all to enjoy!

The real question is now, which doughnut type do you prefer?

1 month ago | [YT] | 2

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I have released the opening sequence of my reading of Arches to my top-tier patrons. I was told I should announce that here just in case anyone is interested... so here is the link:

www.patreon.com/u27257156/posts/updated-preview-16…

Now lets talk cakes:

2 months ago | [YT] | 0

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Arches Update:

After some delay due to my trip to visit family, I’ve finally begun editing Mitch’s audio! It’s neat hearing how much more confident he got in his delivery between his first and second recordings. Gonna try and get my audio recorded this week now and I need to try and wrangle APGlion into the recording booth for his one line in the first part too. Yay progress!

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 9

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Arches Update:

The hubby and I are going to be traveling to visit my out-of-state family starting tomorrow (Friday) for a couple weeks.

We’re uncles now and we’re going to go meet our nephew!

So, needless to say, I’m not going to be able to work on the video while we’re traveling, but I also can’t think of a production delay that could make me more happy!

3 months ago | [YT] | 13

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Arches Update:

Yesterday I had my second recording session with Mitch, who will be voicing Cameron, one of the two leads. I had forgotten just how MUCH talking Cameron does at the beginning, lots of personal lore dropped right at the front. So we wound up spending a lot of our first session finding his interpretation of the character and yesterday we ended up re-recording a bunch of the beginning lines so they felt consistent with later lines.


I'm going to try and arrange a meeting with APGlion to record a single flash-forward line for this part sometime this weekend. I'm gonna try and do some recording myself tomorrow (Friday), but I've got a couple other things I'm juggling at the moment so that may or may not actually happen.

Regardless, production has officially begun!

3 months ago | [YT] | 11

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Arches Update:

Since Arches doesn't really have any female characters for Dani to voice, I've convinced another of my D&D friends, Mitch, to lend his voice to the project. He's going to be playing Cameron, one of the two protagonists, and we just had our "session 0" this afternoon. It was mostly a lot of setup with some trouble-shooting thrown in for good measure... I thought the ambient menu audio was interference my microphone was picking up for like half an hour before I finally realized what was going on. I'm sure I looked like quite the professional to my friend.

Apglion, who was the guest narrator in Adastra, has also agreed to return to voice a couple of the side characters as well.

Q: Is this going to make production more complicated?
A: Absolutely, yes.

Q: Is it still something I want to do because I think doing voices with friends is more fun?
A: Also yes.

Q: Does this have the potential to go totally off the rails due to scheduling conflicts and whatnot?
A: Hopefully not too many, and the ones that do occur will hopefully be worth it.

I don't know why I'm worried about how long it will take, everyone who got through Adastra with me knows these things take forever to come out... We are planning on doing some actual recording next week now that we've gotten all the kinks worked out, and I'm feeling pretty excited about it right now ^.=.^

4 months ago | [YT] | 7

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The Next VN Poll:

Okay, I've looked over the many recommendations I've gotten and I narrowed it down to 4 choices. Then I had my patrons vote on it, and two of them tied. So now it's time for a tie-breaker!

Which of the following VNs most appeals to you? Cast your vote below!

Arches: echoproject.itch.io/arches
Devil's Gambit: roddio.itch.io/devils-gambit

4 months ago | [YT] | 6