We have decided to give Nord a day off to join the protests against the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation.
SOPA was drafted to provide legal means to restrict access to certain web sites in order to prevent online piracy. However, the bill could also be used to arbitrarily shut down web sites and social media networks considered to be hosting, or linking to, undesired content.
Nord will be online again at 5am Nord Time (8am PST). In the meantime we suggest you all enjoy some quality IRL time with your loved ones.
Nord joins SOPA blackout
Major milestone passed
I can proudly announce that we now finally have all lines of dialog recorded and cut in place for Bwana, our main character in The Journey Down. Voice actor Anthony Sardinha has been working tirelessly the entire Christmas and New year’s holiday in order to get the last batch in place, an effort we can’t be thankful enough for. Bwana currently has roughly 1350 lines of dialog – a staggering amount if you ask me.
Apart from a couple of smaller additional cast lines, the GIGANTIC project of wrapping up the voice work on the first chapter of TJD is finally starting to draw to a close. Jah be praised.
In other news, if you’re curious about some of my thoughts on moving from 2d to 3d, be sure to check out my write-up on this over here.
Magic of 2011
Looking back at 2011 I see two major events that have changed my life radically. The first one is probably quite obvious to those who know me personally – I became a father. An event so bombastic, I’m not even going to attempt to explain its magnitude. For those of you who are parents, you already know – and for those of you who aren’t, let’s just say I wish that you one day will get to experience the adventure, that it indeed is.
The other mindbogglingly amazing thing that happened 2011 is that I somehow, through some weird-ass force majeur act of the kozmik-space-gods, managed to convince the rest of the SkyGoblin team to take on my precious “The Journey Down“ project, as a full fledged commercial one. How on Earth I managed to do so I have no idea. I must have struck ‘em in a moment of weakness and delusion or something. (Similar to when Mathias back in 2009 said “Hey we should move our office to Tanzania for three months!” And the rest of us said “Sure!”, and so we did An event still unsurpassed in simultaneous insanity and geniality.)
SkyGoblin taking on the Journey Down project has meant something tremendous to me. What I suppose you’d normally expect from becoming a parent is that you’d have to flush all of your free-time activities down the drain, in order to spend as much of your off-work time as possible with your new little family member. This much goes for my case as well -zero free time is a fact- but with one major difference: I used to spend ALL my free time working on The Journey Down. Now I get to spend pretty much my entire workdays with TJD which means I DIDN’T HAVE TO GIVE ANYTHING UP. Which frankly is just plain amazing. I owe a lot to my fellow SkyGoblins. Not only have they enabled me to work pretty much full time with what I love, they’ve also all contributed bigtime with their respective expertises to the project of my dreams. For all of this, I am incredibly grateful.
Here’s me wishing that I’ll get the honor of continuing to work with you guys during all of 2012 as well.
Thanks, guys. Y’all rule.
-theo
