Short film update #3
Oct 19th, 2007 by Ninja Dodo
Clearly, when I say weeks, I mean months. Between work and other things my short film has not progressed as much as I intended, but progress there is. I really need to sort out that third shot and there’s plenty to refine across the rest, but I’m getting somewhere. I re-worked the character being held at gunpoint by the soldier as this was something that was unclear to a lot of people and I fixed a bunch of other things.
In other news, I’ve been – oh shock – playing some games. Okami on the PS2 is a lot of fun. Coming to the Wii as well now apparently, a platform more obviously suited to the game’s magical calligraphy. While in many ways it is a traditional action-adventure dressed in water-colours, it’s this painting that makes it unique. You use your celestial brush to slash through rock, make trees bloom again, turn night to day and otherwise bend the forces of nature to your will.
You are the sun-godess Amaterasu walking the earth in the form of a white wolf tasked with restoring the world to its natural beauty after a horrible darkness has swept over it. It’s a very beautiful game. And long, also. I’m not even halfway into it, much left still to be discovered…
The Orange Box is another game worth a mention, or three mentions. It continues the fine story of Half Life 2 in Episode 2, completely re-imagines the multiplayer classic Team Fortress and contains one of the most surprisingly excellent gems in years: Portal… and cake.
As you can see from the banner I also managed to get out of the city for a bit and explore the countryside. Unplug!