Holy H.G. Wells, but this is brilliant!
Category: Peer Production
Leesa Dean: Levitation Trick
Adventures in Digital Series Land #99
by Leesa Dean
The past two weeks have been intense–writing, writing, writing and more writing. I’m a few days away from finally starting production and I. Am. PSYCHED! I completed 20 episodes of the new series, the trailer, plus an additional 30 episodes of a tiny mini-series I’m launching around the same time. Not to mention working on a new 30 minute pilot/series and short. Now, I just have to animate them all. And once that’s done, the hard part starts: promo.
I’m hoping I can finish animating everything related to the new show in a couple of months. It’s not heavy-duty animation (otherwise it might take me till infinity to finish!) And before I launch, I’m planning on starting up new social media accounts that are related to the new show–Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Just keeping up with social media will be insane so I’m not starting ’til all the animation’s in the can.
Meanwhile, on top of everything I’m researching and starting to design the website relaunch. Luckily, I have a friend who recently launched a site for her business. She hired someone to design hers and there have been a lot of issues with it. I stopped by her place for a couple of hours and looked through it and gave her some small suggestions. While I’m not a big coding pro, I’m installing a WordPress theme myself for the first time and learning as much as I can about it and found that helping her, even in the minor way I did, was incredibly helpful to me cause I started to see my own project through someone else’s eyes. And that reminded me of something a businessman told me when I was starting out: The Levitation Trick.
Aaron Walker Sr.: Building a Universe… And a Website
CARGO 3120
The Making of a SciFy Franchise #20
by Aaron Walker Sr.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
On our last blog I talked about my personal and creative priorities, and how sometimes we’re forced to shift focus from our passion to other things. But again, one must know when to shift that focus back. Life happens to everyone. We all have many things tugging at our time. But I know myself, the longer I stay away from a project, the harder it is for me to return. So I had to give myself a hard date as to when I would resume work on the comic.
Now my focus is back to Cargo 3120! Currently, our artist Lemelle is hard at work on the comic. The first couple of pages are complete, along with rough drafts of future pages. And they look awesome. While awaiting the art, we decided to release additional content designed to give our readers insight into Cargo’s backstory. So we started with the human controlled faction of the Cargo 3120 universe: “The Interstellar League of Planets” (a.k.a. The ISL).
Hank Isaac: Will Lightning Ever Strike Your Digital Series?
Underfunded Overachievers #8
by Hank Isaac
I was going to write to the question: “Is it even worth it?” but, you know, it’s Spring (or Autumn if you’re down under) and, either way, it’s a time of change. So…
I’m a sailor. I’ve been one for well over half a century. And the fact I can boast that is frankly a bit disturbing. I was also a pilot. So weather is something that is not only interesting, knowledge of it is essential. In fact, ignoring the weather can quickly put lives in jeopardy.
So here’s where I pass on my little bit of knowledge – as a metaphor, because I’m supposed to be a writer.
Leesa Dean: Making Some Ch-Ch-Changes
Adventures in Digital Series Land #98
by Leesa Dean
A few changes:
First, as you can see, I’ve changed the name of this blog from Adventures of a Web Series Newbie to Adventures in Digital Series Land. Not only to reflect a new way to describe web series, but also because, let’s face it, I’m no longer a newbie. I’ve been doing this for two years.
Plus, since I’m designing the new website, I wanted this blog to reflect that change. New times, new site, new series, new blog name.