My husband started out on the AEfter Ragnarok journey with me seven years ago. In more recent history, he has been entirely too busy with uni and afterwards work to contribute much beyond discussing ideas and offering advice when I asked, and on many occasions assisting me practically with fight scenes and modelling poses. He is also supposed to be proof reading the scripts, but has continually refused to do so on the grounds that I was changing something at least every couple of weeks, sometimes something minor but more often something major which would then elicit a major change further down the track, and he absolutely hated the way the script was laid out.

I had it laid out in a slightly annoying table layout that I had seen used somewhere (uni? Some pseudorandom Google search? I forget) and somewhere along the line I had changed the way I was writing into it. Segregating everything into dialogue, action and direction was not functioning well with my brain anyway (I am an overly holistic kind of person, I don't really segregate much of anything which is one of the reasons why we're !schooling), so earlier today I did yet another search for animation script layouts.

I tripped over one in one of the book previews on Google books. The book was called "Guerilla TV" and this was the page in question.

It worked much better with my brain.

So now I'm working on reformatting the scripts (all 19 of them), and am being forced to actually think about annoying little things like camera angles, lighting and time of day which I had been studiously avoiding in my previous edits with the last format. The better flow also helped a lot in fixing up some of the slightly stranger action and dialogue. I showed it to the hubby asking him if that was better to read and got an enthused response, so all is well.

This coupled with my last day off (from childwrangling so I can work on the paid job as well as the fun stuff) where I got to optimise a mesh and organise working with my sister to solict help with the head of my generic model has made me feel quite productive and that I may actually get this thing rolling sometime in the next decade, and despite never having much to show I am in fact doing heaps of work.

Now all I need is a whack of cash so I can buy Vue, and to see if my in laws can be conned into taking the older two for a day each week after they've moved over and settled in so I can get some decent work in.