GC narrated 'movie'

Date: Nov 20, 2008

GC narrated 'movie'

Date: Nov 22, 2008

Very glad you liked it. The words themselves in the book are the most important, but many people will not read words anymore - they will only watch moving pictures. So i believe it is very important to get this book somehow into a moving picture.

The short history of this particular piece is that a friend in India found a man who made this using Flash software. I thot he did quite well (even tho Hindu), and paid i think around 200usd after he fixed a few problems. He started on a few other chapters, but before completing the revisions of any of them, he got a high-paying (500usd/month) job in Bangalore, and left this work.

While in India 2 years ago, my friend introduced me to a different man who wanted to do this (for the pay of course), but he could not do it. Now no one is working on it.

I talked with an animation company director in Malaysia a few months ago, and he quoted me a price of just over 1million usd for a standard 2D animated 90-minute movie. Cannot.

While searching on youtube, i found this great animation of the Pilgrim's Progress:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyZaiVvmx-s

How is it connected to this book? Well, i have communicated with one of the men who worked on this 3D movie, and found out that it is possible to make a 3D movie with the current software, with just a small group, or even just one very dedicated person.

So where i am now in this project, is thinking and planning and putting out feelers to see where i can get animation school training. More specifically, i hpe to get training in TrueSpace 3D software, as it is robust enough to do the job i believe, and was recently made free.

My dream is to get 2 or 3 months intensive training in this software, then start training several young people in India or SE Asia somewhere, then we could make this movie ourselves, and in the process, the young people would get very marketable skills, which of course i hope they would want to use for God's service, to make many more good things to advance God's work.

Any advice or comments would be appreciated.

Date: Nov 23, 2008

Excellent ideas! I agree with you that most do not want to read anymore and want to only watch and listen. We must try and get the word out no matter what it takes within the confines of SOP. I pray that God will be behind this effort and make things go smoothly.

newbie

Date: Nov 24, 2008

Animation is not my ideal. I would prefer to see more emphasis on translation and printing. Perhaps those who don't read are not seriously minded enough to fully accept the message given. Regardless of the medium chosen, I am praying that people will be reached with the message given by God.