Good news mid-week. NESTA have green lighted the next stage of funding. We hit the second project milestone last week (Interactive Design Document) on schedule.
Here is my report on the last stage. The red (tracked changes in Word) is simply to indicate where things changed from last milestone (it might be easier to read if you Accept them all).
http://thequality.com/flics/10weeks/blog/archives/docs/20040906_nesta.doc
As described in the report, we've tried to slow down the cash-flow to the absolute minimum to give us more time to get the right people onboard and plan properly for the work ahead. Still looking for in particular for developers and designers across the console and community departments.
This is the fun part now, doing the design, and where we can be most flexible. The revised plan is to move into pre-production (with a solid two months of concept visualisation done) by end of October at the latest.
Re-casting the project as a MOD team has already started to pay off in terms of interest and contributions. Special note to Basil Kinghorn (fashion designer) and Simon Duric (illustrator) who've broken the ice on the concept art phase. Simon showed up with ELEVEN sketches for our first meeting this morning. I'm (almost) speechless.
We're working hard to ensure that the line between volunteer and comissioned contributor is clear and that all the work is captured for prosterity. Thanks to Ken for his constant attention to Sanctuary secret HQ and helping me prioritise the issues of the day. Thanks to Archie for taking weight off my shoulders re. our legal wrangling around licensing. Thanks to Christine for guiding us through the State's growing mountain of paperwork. Thanks to Alex for his work on the modfilms.net community design, the blueprint for how we find an audience.
Warm welcome to the newest members of the headbin - Frank Tiddeman, (tech architect), Marcus Gillezeau (film-maker), Ross Howden (film-maker) and Christian Hogue (vfx artist).
Feel free to chat amoungst yourself. Until modfilms.net launches that's what the Yahoo Group is for.
Off we flee to level three!
.M.
Posted by .M. at September 8, 2004 02:56 PM