Bettina Throckmorton and I have been emailing back and forth over the last few weeks to visually design characters for Machine Court. …oh, that makes it sound like I did a lot. No, I got to ... Read more

Wow, I used a lot of sound effects in episode 7. Some new ones that I haven’t already attributed: “21” by adcbicycle – a nice, messy crashing noise used for Erik’s ... Read more

So I emptied out this little room to move all my recording stuff into. I didn’t have all the acoustic foam yet to treat the room so it would sound not echoey. And it actually sounded ... Read more

An old video of Terry Gilliam explaining how to do cutout animation. The corner-cutting is really charming. (“The pram doesn’t need anything to be done on the wheels, because ... Read more

Crowd noises are fun. The trick is getting sound effects that match the quantity of people you want and the kind of space they are in. I grabbed some nice, free Creative-Commons-licensed sound ... Read more

This morning on my walk home from work, I listened to The Thoughts podcast by John… John… Damn it, the guy doesn’t have his last name on his website, Facebook page, Twitter ... Read more

This org chart shows the latest developments in the Machine Court world. Spogey has created a boss loop, which allows me to supervise my own supervisor. And also I am the head of a new department ... Read more

I only introduced one new sound effect in this episode. It’s just a reversed version of the wristphone “incoming call” sound. The non-reversed sample came from JustinBW, who I ... Read more

Grumpily, I’ve put up a Facebook page for Machine Court. Why? I got a blog, right? But the peoples want to get their netstuffs through Uncle Zuckie’s hook-up. Did I mention “get ... Read more

I’m sitting down for another evening of writing on Episode 5. Really liking Celtx for writing audio plays, by the way. It beats ass all over Word. I wrote all the story-type stuff last ... Read more