Here are the ravens mounted up for programming:

Now, all I have to do is:

• Write a script
• Record the voices
• Create about a thousand stop-motion animation frames
• Integrate the animation in with the lighting queues
• Make a gravestone for the ravens to sit on

I am totaly screwed. Time to start taking vacation days.

About four months ago I had an idea about the ravens doing a kind of Abbott and Costello routine. I planned on writing another so that the birds would have two alternating speils. With one week left, this isn’t going to happen. I need one good short speil.

Over the last several weeks I have been learing to use some new software. There is this lighting queue program called FreeStyler. It’s free and seems to do most things I need it to do. And it’s free!

The most important feature of FreeStyler is its ability to run sequences in parallel. This makes life easy because the bird’s sequence can be started independantly from the other lighting sequences.

Each FreeStyler sequence can be MIDI controlled, so I can plop the audio into Cakewalk along with MIDI events that trigger the lighting queues. This should be easy…