09:05 Saturday 09 December 2017 JST
- The (first?) M-Splitter is complete. The big marbles roll its entire length, and medium sized marbles fall through. They do not yet have a lower track to catch their fall, though, and big marbles roll immediately off the track instead of around the hairpin turns.
- I am beginning to develop character traits for each character, and have defined some of their unique characteristics, though I have not settled on names for them.
- The small character with white body and green head may become the primary marble pusher. He has just released the big marble from the top of the track and discovered that it rolled right past the hairpin turn. Everyone rushed over to see what happened, but the frames are too quick. As of this writing, I plan to delete the last 7 frames and retake them, giving the characters proper time to react.
- Since June 2017, I have spent 4.8+ days on Marble Track 3.
During I-group yesterday, I mentioned Marble Track 3. Some of the men asked about it, so I wrote a summary:
TL;DR: this links to a playlist of video clips https://mt3s.robnugen.com/ (5 clips total)
Latest construction details are here https://mt3.robnugen.com
Longer story:
Previously, I had created Marble Track 2 and posted a video of it to Youtube. The youtube link is available at https://mt2.robnugen.com Many people seemed to like the video and some people asked how I made the marble track.
After some thought, I realized it would be ridiculous to literally show people how to make a marble track, and even more ridiculous/amazing to create a stop motion animation of characters making a marble track.
So, that is exactly what I am doing while making Marble Track 3.
Each second of video takes roughly an hour behind the scenes taking photos and moving characters around the set. I estimate 5 more years to go on the project.
Rob