I finally got "Pico Epsilon" posted in the portal. I didn't decide to actually make a movie until halfway through March, and worked on it pretty steadily. I got about half-way through when all of a sudden Flash (CS3) would keep crashing whenever I opened the file. Luckily I make back-ups so I didn't lose everything, but without getting too technical, I needed to fix whatever was causing the crash, or I'd be screwed.
I spent about a week trying to figure that out before I started to lose hope. After a lot of researching, I couldn't find any way to fix it. I asked around to people on NG, and everyone was very helpful, but I still couldn't get the damn file to open. I went through the "good" copy frame by frame to see what was creating the crash. After about another three days, I found out it was a motion-guide in one of the scenes that somehow corrupted the file.
I removed it and made a new one, and BOOYAH, it worked. I went back into full production, and animated my ass off. I've spent full days animating, and thought I was on a great pace to make it on time for Pico Day. Annnnnnnd then it became corrupt again. So rather than waste any time researching the problem, I just went throught he movie frame by frame again to get it fixed. Sadly, by the time I found it, I was way behind schedual. I've spent the last three days getting everything working and stable. It's now almost 6am, because I was determined not to sleep until I got it to work.
So it's finally finished, and I can rest easy. I hope that even though it's a few days late, it's still considered for the collection, and I really really really fucking hope people enjoy it, because I'd hate to have busted my ass only to underwhelm people. I'll probably update this post in the morning when I've gotten some much needed sleep. 'Night.
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After getting some sleep, and being able to see the light of day again, I've returned to see a warm reception to the flash. Thank you all for the comments and reviews, and I'll try to respond to as much as I can.
Some fun facts about making the movie
Show's that I've watched while animating:
Family Guy Seasons 3, 4, 5, & 6
Arrested Development Seasons 2 & 3
The Office Seasons 3 & 4
Venture Brothers Seasons 1 & 2
Robot Chicken Season 3
South Park Season 11
Movies I watched:
Unforgiven
The Man Who Wasn't There
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Open Range
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
EXTRA FUN FACTS
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Scenes: 107
Frames: No Idea
Objects: Around 600 (some were scenes within scenes, etc.)
Times The Movie Corrupted: Twice
Days Spent Trying to fix it: Around 13-15
40's Drank While animating: 1
Times I hit Ctrl-z: 25,000,000
Does anyone actually care about those mundane details?
SkatingRobert
Wow you're sumission sure is epic, look at my comment!
Btw 1st comment >.>
R.
BiffTheTimid
Thanks man, and congratulations on being the first comment. It's a high honor.