I fought the law...

...and the law politely asked us not to take photographs on government property. This was not a surprise in and of itself; if anything we would have expected this kind of trouble long before our fifth photo shoot. We will have to splice together some material as a result, as we had yet to finish the scene when the guard on duty informed us of our transgression. We moved from our original location onto campus, where we were fortunate enough not to be hassled further (although I was perched halfway over a railing on the way to, um, a location not normally accessible to the public when a uniformed officer left the main admin building behind us, which was a pretty close call!). This shoot was by far the shortest we've done, probably no more than 45 minutes long. We had the greatest number of photographers to date (3), and it was probably the second-coldest shoot (the school/playground session for the intro monologue takes the cake there).

On our way back after the shoot, we irked an overzealous left-turning Manitoban with his window rolled down, but we brandished our golf club and JAWS rental, and passed safely through the night.

Peter promises a process post sometime "soonish" detailing the progression from the photographs we take to the comic pages you see.

Welcome!

Now that we've got ourselves a bona-fide homepage, it's time I committed some text to the page here on the progress blog. For now it's just the big ol' slideshow: a mix of production shots, unreleased photos, and the undoctored originals of some of what you have seen (or will see) in Little Worlds. As this space develops, you'll likely see a greater emphasis on the material that has gone into the comic, and I'm hoping to wrangle the odd actor into doing a guest post or two. I'll kick this off with some of my thoughts thus far:

I've gotten into digital photography in the last few years, but as a very sporadic hobby. Little Worlds is the first project that I have undertaken as a photographer per se, and as such is both exciting and intimidating. The responsibility of translating another person's vision into reality is a new one for me, so I'll admit that yeah, I'm definitely a little lot scared of screwing up. Biggest challenge so far: holding the camera steady at night without a tripod, and the biggest success: I dunno if I'm the right person to ask, but there is this one really awesome picture of the Duke that I think will be available as a wallpaper at some point.

A note on my equipment, in case anyone is curious: I have the 8-megapixel Canon Digital Rebel XT with an 18-35mm lens. It's not a full frame digital camera, though, so the actual numbers are ~1.6x...higher (if I remember the manual correctly) than stated. Of course, this is some old-hat stuff compared to some of the newfangled gear you can get these days.

Before I sign off, there's a question I feel I ought to ask: what part of the comic-making process do you want to read about? Leave a comment to let us know!

-Loud (Gallium_Arsenide on the RPC forums)