Paul Chadwick's Weblog

MXO Day

I'm off to the Kirkland offices of Sony Online Entertainment for creative meetings on The Matrix Online.   We're arranging for a new way to do cinematics -- the short movies that are released periodically to move along the story.  Rather than laboriously animating them within the game engine, then transferring them to compressible files, we're going to do flash animations.

It's a step down in production value, but necessary if we're to have cinematics at all.  It took a huge number of manhours to do the cinematics the previous way.  You can access cinematics (old style) here. 

Meanwhile, check out this group shot I found of The Devil's Advocates, a faction working for the Merovingian.  It blew me away to think of how much cooperation and adjustment it took to get this nicely composed shot. Click to enlarge.

I Was Inteviewed

For a brief while, you'll be able to download an archive interview I just finished minutes ago with Ken Gale, for his WBAI New York comics show, "'Nuff Said."  Ken's an old friend, a comics writer, and a knowledgable commentator on comics and the creative process.

Because it was a sub for the "Punk and Hardcore" show, it's archived under that name.  You want the show from Wednesday, Dec 7, 2005.

Here, by the way, is the cover to another book in the Concrete reprint series.  Click to enlarge.