Updating…

So it’s been a while since I last made an entry.  Tonight I decided to clean out all the junk in this blog, so some of you guys will probably notice that the drama post are gone.  I think thats one reason why I stopped posting because i didn’t want my blog to consist of that.

Lately I have been logging into second life more, just trying to get inspired.  I find that keeping inspiration these days has been a struggle. After 3 years of this I find myself burnt out.  There was a time where I used to be able to complete the projects I start, but now I am finding myself trashing a lot of ideas.   But don’t worry I am not throwing away my series, i am just trying to take it one step at a time at the moment. I hope to continue with it once I begin to feel it as I did when i first started.  The hardest part about a series is not the filming after all.  It’s the finishing.  At least that’s what I’m discovering.

Dialogue videos vs. music videos

I have to say after working on The Phantom Project i have a whole appreciation for anyone who works with dialogue. I am used to working with dialogue with live action projects, but with machinima it’s a totally different story. With working with dialogue you have to make sure everything is synced up as best as it can be, and then laying music or ambience over the vocals so your project doesn’t feel like there’s moments of emptiness, or something is missing. And then making sure your background audio isn’t drowning out the vocals. I’ve spent more time adjusting levels more so than actually finalizing cuts.

And shooting is a whole other story, finding the right movements and moods for when the sims are speaking, blocking is another big issue i’ve encountered, and now more so than ever i’m encountering conitinuity issues that i haven’t come across too many times, while working on music videos. I feel like i am in film school all over again.

But at the end of the day I’m really liking it, all. For me this is more of a challenge and I’m happy to tackle it.

the last few weeks, trying to balance appropriate shooting times and editing, and dealing with my real job on a constant basis is hard. But I’m really loving the way everything is coming together in this first episode. I hit a bit of a block in writing my second ep. so i decided to just start shooting and editing the first ep a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully this will spark some creative juices in my brain for the next installment. I just hope i can do it justice and everyone who’s taken a part in this project. Right now i have mixed thoughts about releasing this project when it’s done. I am going to release it but I just feel a little nervous. This is my very first talkie, and its probably not going to be perfect or the best one out there, but I just feel good knowing that i put my all into it, from day one. I don’t know what people are going to say about it, but i am waiting for the “you should stick to music videos comment from a few viewers. “

I guess we’ll see when that time comes.

Later.

What’s new from B.Kiddo Productions

I’m very excited to announce that I’m currently working on a pilot episode for my first talkie project. I’m expecting to release it in Spring of 08.  I rediscovered a new muse in my life and I’ve been inspired to create this series.  I’ve always wanted to do a talking series, but finding an idea to write about and expand on was very difficult for me. So when a good idea finally popped into my brain.  I immediately started working on it.  I haven’t felt this enthusiastic about working on something in a while.  So this is like a breath of fresh air for me.  I just hope everything thing turns out the way I envisioned it in the final product.

It’s alive! ALIVE!!!!!

I would like to announce that at 4am Sunday Feb. 17 2008 my website is now live! After several weeks of trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. I finally figure out, with help no less. And I like to thank Judy, Jovial, and Tams for helping work out some of the kinks. B.Kiddo Productions

Where am I?

Great question, lately i find myself in the basement of this facility capturing tapes countless night after countless night.  And the strange part about it is, I love it!  I live the life of a vampire; sleep all day, and awake all night. I feel more alive then I have in almost 2 years.  When I am not working I find myself doing things like actually having fun and being creative. I think this all coincides with the fact that I am working a job that I have coveted since the moment I left college.   I am finally sitting in front of an Avid suite and cutting together a show.  It feels great and I’ve been so thankful lately.  I feel like things can only get better for once and that’s awesome, I haven’t let any of my other burdens in life get to me.  It’s so amazing how all it takes is to pretty much get rid of one major negative force in your life, and then your whole view, or outlook suddenly changes.

With those thoughts aside.  I have been working on the my portion of the new Sims Premiere website.  It’s been taxing (yeah that’s a good work).  I’ve been pretty much learning how to create something in a field that I haven’t really dabbled in.  But in the end I love learning new things, and who knows I could probably use these new website building skills in future ventures.  But I am slowly getting things together for the site. I’ve uploaded a new main page.  It’s still in the works. I haven’t really been focusing too much on the design aspects mostly just trying to see if I can actually get something on the web.  Once i get done with everything I’ll go back to working on the future machinima project that I somewhat started over the holidays.  I have so many new ideas swimming inside my head, I don’t know what to do with them.

Also I just want to apologize to my blog, for not posting in while and making you feel neglected.  I haven’t forgotten about you and I’ll be more attentive.  I promise lol.

-End transmission-

EA Get Your Sh%t Together!

If you’ve gone to the official website for the Sims 2 and looked at the BBS section of the site. You’ve probably noticed a show, to say the least. If you have installed EA’s latest expansion, Bon Voyage you may become privy to a host of problems, such as the severe memory leak, the massive character files folder, error messages, and many more. Although last night, EA realeased it’s first patch for the bloated boo boo that is Bon Voyage. It still did not address a lot of issues that people are experiencing with their game, the major one being the memory leak. If you are curious to see if you may be experiencing said leak, you can see for yourself.

While the game is running simply click the windows button on your PC keyboard.

Once the game is minimized click ALT + Ctrl + delete to bring up your task manager.

In task manager click the tab that says performance. This is where you can see how much memory your computer is running while the game is on.

If your CPU Usage is somewhere between 5o% and 100% and your PF Usage is at 1.37GB, then my friend you have the memory leak. And this explains why your game is moving as slow as elderly person at bingo night. There is speculation that this memory leak may be caused by the attached spyware/copyright protection software called securom oh wait i’m sorry SecuROM! EA intergrated into Bon Voyage so that upon installing the EP, SecuROM! automatically installs itself to one’s computer. SecuROM! cannot be uninstalled and doesn’t uninstall itself when the game it was attached to is uninstalled. If you try to uninstall SecuROM! be warned that if you do not follow the proper tutorials you will end up further damaging your CPU. But this is all speculation, however if you go to the official BBS you will then in fact find an entire section devoted to our new friend SecuROM! So there is in fact a problem, but who is the culprit?

Will this problem ever be fixed? No one knows, because its not like EA wants to acknowledge the fact that their mistakes could cost someone their computer.

To answer the question about the bloated character’s files, this is caused by the game re-creating loads of NPC files while the game is running. This was first remedied by JM Pescado at MoreAwesomethanYou.com. Now EA has supposedly fixed the problem with their shiny new patch. I personally would not install this patch until after, reading about all the issues people may be experiencing with that alone.

Word to the wise if you haven’t purchased or installed Bon Voyage please do not until you read all about the issues and solutions for some of the problems.

To find out some “inteligent” information about these problems please visit http://www.thesporum.net/smf/index.php

Later….

Sarah Silverman is my hero.

I just love the bitch!

Oh Britney Why?

If you’ve tuned into MTV last night I am sure you caught the performance of a lifetime. Britney Spears performed her new single, “Gimme More” but frankly the public has had enough. The singer came out on stage sporting, an outfit that left nothing to the imagination; a studded bra and bikini bottoms that were overshadowed by her beer gut, which all in fact complimented her weave-alicious nightmare on top of her head.

The performance was a complete an utter disaster with the singer lip singing and counting her dance steps. However the highlight of the act was when the 25 year old pop diva executed a dance move where she was leaning back in order for her back up dancers to catch her and lift her up, the move went sour when her dancers were uable to lift her up right away, probably because she was heavier than they had expected.

Let’s remember the days where Britney wasn’t such a hot mess, i know its been a long time.

New beginnings

Hello, if you don’t know me, my name is Brian,  I go by the pen name B. Kiddo in the machinima community. I started this blog as another outlet of expression for myself.  Before I started making videos in the machinima world I was practicing writing, drawing, painting, and photo art as ways for me to express myself.  And mainly I would like to use this site as a way for me to go back to my roots, so to speak.

I used to keep many many many blogs in the past, and in looking back on those old blogs i realized how much my life has changed in the past 7 years.  It’s funny I didn’t realize how depressed I was until now 7 years later reading about my old problems and how I was trying to find ways to deal with them.  I’ve come to the conclusion that life was a hell of a lot easier back then.  And I guess 7 years from now I’ll be thinking about how my problems now aren’t anywhere near as bad as my future problems.  It’s true things get harder the older you get.  well anyway enough chatter about problems.  I don’t want to use this blog for that.  I want to talk about things going on in the world whether it be the news, hollywood, SL (Second Life) or the Sims.  Also I wanted to showcase photos and art either created by myself or others.  Well thanks for stopping by, and I hope I don’t bore you too much!

Cheers