Wow. It's something that is so great, but at the same time so limiting. I guess it's the challenge when it comes to machinimating things, it just sucks how limiting it can be in some basic aspects.
For example: In the Bad Ad episode that we have already pretty much written there is a scene where all we need is the character to drive on to scene and look at the camera through his window. Everything is set up, car drives to mark, but we can't make the character turn his head to look out the window without a gun in his hand or just flipping off the camera.
To try to fix this I go into first person to manipulate the head to look out the window to look at the "camera". But if you go into first person you can't manipulate camera placement in the editor... What the hell, why that limitation. Now we have to probably rewrite this scene, which sucks because it was a very visual gag that had us laughing our asses off.
But at the same time it's great because when it allows us to steady cam follow someone for another very visual gag later on.
Just small weird production problems but the good news is I'm feeling more confident that this show will actually be possible and happy that we've been able to no get to ambitious with it and still make something great. I'm really excited to see the finished product. Still a long way away, I was just doing some test shots to see if we were writing things that were possible to show.
I'd say the script for the 1st episode is like 90% done and I'm both super excited and super nervous. I hope people think it's as funny as we do.