October 2022 Production Update

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I’ve been working on 50 Ways to Die in Minecraft Part 15 since January this year. If this is the first production update you’ve read and you’re wondering why I haven’t finished it by now, it’s because I got way too ambitious with just one of the death clips (the “Big Clip”), which took me 6 months to finish. This year, every production update before this one was about how much time the Big Clip was taking me and predicting how much more time I was going to lose to it. But in August, I finally finished it (or rather, I finished the part I needed to work on myself that my computer couldn’t do without me).

So for September, with the Big Clip finally (mostly) behind me, I worked on the rest of the 54 clips I need to make part 15.  I’m aiming to have a total of 60 finished by the end of October so that I’ll have the month of November to cobble together the final edit for early December, which, at the start of September, gave me 2 months to make death clips. 2 months to make clips meant that, on average, I needed to make 27 clips per month. And with that in mind, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that, as I write this, there is still about a week left of September, and I’ve already finished 29 of the Part 15 clips, and some of the ones I finished this month were some of the more time-consuming ones, so it’s safe to say I’m ahead of schedule in terms of number of clips recorded and edited.

The bad news is that, while I was looking at my list of ideas, I realized that I didn’t actually have as many as I thought I did. I was supposed to have 60 ideas ready to go, but really, I only had 40, which means I need to come up with 20 more satisfactorily funny death ideas before I can make too many more. This means that, instead of getting straight back to work, I’m going to have to spend the first bit of October just brainstorming ideas. I’ve already come up with a few more and there’s some good ones left over from Part 14 that I never got around too as well, so hopefully it won’t take too long to recover from this nasty surprise. And after that, I’ll spend the rest of October finishing the remaining death clips.

Part 15 Progress

48/60 Clip Ideas

36/60 Clips Recorded

35/60 Clips Edited

Big Clip Progress

Mostly rendered, still rendering last shot.