Character Art

    I am moving forward with work on creating a collection of figurines. We have, literally, hundreds of drawings and paintings of the characters used in the Illustrated Storybooks. I purchased a Kiln, to fire the sculptures that originate in clay and I am setting up to do casting of those characters that are already sculpted. But in addition to that there is an expectation that we will advance into 3D printing of the characters. Part of that is creating the 3D files of the characters and once that is done, we can look at CGI animation as well. So, all this seems to be in front of the stage show, since the music needs more work.

   In that regard, the music, I somehow was remiss from engaging in work on the music, while the book publishing was being finished. Duh! I just realized that I have multiple Mac workstations and the last Mac I was using is more than sufficient to do the music. I had been avoiding the music because my main workstation is set up for publishing and I didn't want to disturb anything. You see, I had multiple hard disc failures while I was doing this layout and I lost, quite literally, ten years worth of work because of that. I had to redo the layout, I will say, multiple times. Embarrassingly, as many as four times.It was driving me to the brink. So after I got the layout rebuilt, I simplified it, backed up the layouts in numerous locations and swore I would not overload the computer by doing other burdensome tasks on it.

  But the other day, I was trying to transfer "I Am Alpha & Omega" over from a mac 6500 to a G4, looking at my equipment, and I realized that I have a G5 Quad that would serve quite nicely as a machine to do the work needed on the music. So I will be setting that up again, since that machine has nothing to do with the Mac Pro I am using. The music was originally written on a Mac G4 Quicksilver and a G5, So kicking it up to a G5 Quad would work nicely. Of course the problem there is reacclimatizing myself to the programs, and the upgraded version I have. That will be happening for more reasons than just The Gnomes of New Hope. I am beginning to work on "I Am Alpha & Omega" again and that will require music.

That's all for now.  

AG