Progress and Regress

The majority of the editing for "On Call" has been finished. I feel better knowing that it is nearly finished. I had a better time than I thought I would editing Tania's interview, though there are still some very strange pauses. She said a lot of interesting things, but for time and attention span concerns I ended up cutting much of it out... I'm reasonably pleased with how it came out.

My main concern now is getting Shake to cooperate. I need a good four hours or so of good blood sugar, good mood and good ambient noise to fiddle about with Shake. I walked into ASH lab and found it teeming with Comp Anim peeps working on "Uprising" (which looks interesting, very interesting) and a few assorted other animation people. It was very loud and I was already feeling a bit loopy. Shake makes more sense each time I open it, but I'm missing some very simple things, like how to move the viewing window, and how to render out video. I need some quality time with the manual and a few more weeks. I don't have the 'few more weeks' but I should get some quality time with the manual. I'll probably go into ASH early tomorrow and beam out before the Animator Horde reappears.