Crunch Time Behind the Scenes

At 3 months out, I know we’ve hit crunch time. Why? Because here’s what my weekend looked like:

Friday

• 3 hours of acting rehearsal
• Review the final concept art for the projections
• Design and layout pages for the graphic novel based on the now-finished novel script
• Draft show rehearsal schedule and set up a Doodle to gauge scheduling conflicts
• Prep for trip to SLO Sat

Saturday

• 8am – leave for SLO
• Interview potential musician at 10:30am (yes, during the drive)
• Meet friend and another potential musician upon arriving in SLO at 11am
• Grab a quick, cheap, and delicious lunch at Franks
• Audition more potential musicians from 12:45-2:30pm
• Meet with Hideo actor for a costume fitting at 3pm
• 4pm – head back to San Jose and grab dinner
• 9pm – attend showing of the new Trigun movie, Badlands Rumble (yes!)

Sunday

• Draft and send contracts for new musicians
• Outline the plan of attack for projections
• Draft storyboards for each projection sequence
• Play Arkham Horror (not as fun as I thought the board game might be :-P)

And during any non-scheduled downtime, you can find me furiously composing and sending masses of emails to any number of the people I need to follow up with: printers, artists, musicians, tech staff, Cal Poly professors, etc. Indeed – it is crunch time. @_@

So what does that mean for you? Well, it means that there’s a ton of new Hideo stuff happening behind-the-scenes every day! And, as promised, here’s a look at what we’ve been working on.

As I mentioned before, we’ve welcomed 3 new artists to the team. Dan is busy working on the projections and just finished up these colored character concepts (the original sketches are on the characters page):

Our 3 main characters Hideo, Satoshi, and Reina now in color!

as well as these world concepts:

Meanwhile, Christine and Jessica have been working on all-new poster designs:

I’m so excited – everything looks fantastic! But then again, I’m biased… what do you guys think??