75th Tumblelog

The Mysteriacs responded wonderfully and graciously to my previous post and have me quite optimistic about the Book of Ti’ana movie again. To summarize their post:

• They completely agree that the animatic trailer is boring.
• It was the very first piece of conceptual anything they did and does not at all reflect their actual vision for the finished product.
• Its sole target audience was Cyan, for whom “boring” was a good thing, more or less, after their previous Myst Movie experience.
• They only shared the trailer with the world at all because they wanted to share as much of their process as possible, not because they thought it compared favorably with other real movie trailers.

I will confirm the implications of that post and its commenters and admit that I haven’t kept up very faithfully with mystmovie.com over the last few years, as my presence in the community has waxed and waned several times since its beginning. So yes, if I had read the site more thoroughly, I might not have been ill at ease about the trailer in the first place.

But I’m glad they made that post, as it is very confidence-inspiring, and also since they make a couple of tantalizing revelations in its comments. I hope they post some Big Good News soon.