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Thanks everyone! Now it's back to Galacticats!

good to hear - i was looking forward to seeing how that turns out

Unfortunately somehow the spaceship I built for the dogs disappeared, so now I have to redo it. Must have gotten lost when I changed computers or something. Oh well, I wanted to change some things anyway.

in my experience, that sort of accident is always annoying at the time (obviously) but the replacement version of whatever got lost usually turns out better than the original - so, silver linings and all that

i don't have any decent-quality CGI character animation, but i've got some stopmotion videos at https://www.youtube. com/user/thecolclough, wouldn't mind if you wanted to try re-voicing one or two of them.

sorry about the space in the link; had to put that in to stop the forum trying to render the link as a video

What next, a jackhammer?

shush, man - you know it's dangerous to give froyd ideas! 

...nothing wrong with giving johnar ideas, on the other hand...

sadly nothing that exciting for me; just life getting in the way.  hopefully be back soon...

actually, i've just remembered, and thought it might be of some interest... there were a couple of alternative directions that Red Letter Day nearly went in:

my initial idea was to have a very different environment, with a huge wave of water crashing through the scene, but that went by the wayside because i couldn't figure out how to model the wave or how to fit the water around the text without making the text illegible.

later on in development, after i'd settled on the current general layout with the round room, i thought about giving the image a grittier overall effect, leaving some of the 'window' panels out and showing pipework and concrete walls behind, with cables coming through, hanging in mid-air and attaching to the text object as if it was undergoing some sort of maintenance.  i didn't take that route mostly because i thought the clutter would probably detract rather than enhancing the effect; i thought the clean-and-shiny look would better convey the excitement and optimism of the landmark release.  i might go back and do a mock-up of this version sometime, just to see how it would have turned out, but then again i might not.

Nobody likes a good 3d text object more than I do.

i had kinda noticed that

Also I want to say thanks and congrats to Steve for getting this far with the cool little program!

i'll second that!

The only possible change I can think of that would make it better is if a little Robin got in through one of those windows and was seen flying through the scene (or perhaps sitting on the number eight) and leaving a small "deposit" for good luck! ;-)

something to bear in mind for v1.1, maybe

I'm going to steal it.

well, you know what they say about great artists

OK I have one more request of the splash screen entrants: Do you have a name for your entry? Most works of are are given title by their creators. I think these all qualify as art!

well, we've already got:

• 'Renegade' by Ensoniq5
• 'Be Lovely To Each Other' by FSS
• 'Red Letter Day' by yours truly

so that leaves Kreator, Ron and Kunihiko currently untitled.  if Ron has a title in mind, then i've got a hunch what word it might revolve around, but i won't say what my hunch is yet because i don't want to influence his decision-making...