♫Bikki;Midnight Sugar Productions♫

If you're reading this, you PROBABLY already realized that we're back and I've spoken with you or something like that. I've made posts on our production blog as well as sent out a big long email for the Midnight Sugar cast. But. Uh. I figured this needed an update, too. I'll give you guys a heads up on how things are going, so I think I'll probably cross post the important parts of this to our site as well.

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You can find production notes, progress reports, and other such rantings there!


Anyways, let's get started with what I've been repeating over and over recently--my apologies. I'm putting this under a spoiler button so you don't have to read all this crap if you don't want to. No, it's not an excuse--it's my mistake and laziness being put out into the open.

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Since this is my personal production blog, I'll flat out tell you that a big part of it was me getting burnt out on doing a lot of work on my own. While I did have help from some wonderful assistants, it wasn't enough to keep me going. While I had gotten new software for mixing episode two of Midnight Sugar, I had to use it on my laptop, which was not ideal for mixing at all--I had mixed episode two on my iMac, which has a nice, huge screen, with a great work area. Although I had to use audacity, I enjoyed it. Working on my laptop was another story entirely--much less room to move around and things took a lot longer.

With that said, a lot of other factors did go into my disappearance. School, work, and real life drama pretty much forced me into a little shell of "Let me sit in my room and be really anti-social and play World of Warcraft to relieve my stress and forget about my responsibilities" which lead to problems at school. I ended up dropping a lot of classes I was taking, though I DID stick with my Voice Acting class, which I am continuing this semester!

So, it was all due to my issues, and me not really being strong enough to overcome them. For that, I profusely apologize. I promise you that things are going to be different. For one, my major source of real life drama is officially GONE in my life, and that is a huge plus.

Now that that's all said and done, I recently purchased Adobe Soundbooth CS5 for mixing on my iMac! Which means I'll have a MUCH nicer space to work with in terms of production. Mixing should run much smoother, and hopefully sound a lot more professional. I've also taken a liking to creating homemade SFX, so that should bring an increase in quality, too! (Besides just ganking crappy quality ones from the interwebs.)

AS FOR WHAT YOU ALL ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT. Our projects.

We, Midnight Sugar Productions, do plan on continuing what we started. We will keep our promises. I'm very excited, because I'm going to actually be getting my staff members more involved beyond just script editing and opinions. This means we should be working smoother, more efficiently, and well, like an actual production team! Granted none of them have ever mixed before so that'll be a bit of a challenge, but we'll make something work. Even though Kacchama is going back to school soon and Suraki is all the way in Virginia, I think we'll be able to work together again harmoniously.

SO. Here's the deal.

Midnight Sugar
....will continue as planned. So far, we are waiting on confirmation from the remaining two cast members to resume production. If anyone has gotten ahold of Littlestar or xXLittlexGurlXx recently, please ask them to check their email for our letter--and let them know the episode is out! If they do not confirm their roles then we will be recasting, but I really don't want to do that so we'll wait for quite awhile! Regardless of when they give us the answer, though,

Midnight Sugar, Episode 3 script will be sent out by the end of this week.

This episode will probably be longer than the last and will be the last of the three pilot episodes before we move onto "season one" and go into actual legitimate PLOT, besides happy-go-lucky-random-stuff. Remember that this IS a drama series! It's a lot of fun, but there is some bit of seriousness to it!

Once cast is confirmed and production resumes, I'm hoping to get on a decent schedule of monthly or bimonthly releases. Also, there's brief mentioning of a comic adaptaion in the works, but Kacchama would know more about that.

SO! EPISODE TWO IS OUT. Advertise. Tell your friends. Make them fans. Get them to listen! And give us feedback! Also, I have to stop being lazy and split up parts one and two again so I can upload episode two to youtube... but, it's up here, and at our blog, so you can listen at these places. We do have a mypodcast.com account, but I'm probably going to scrap that, as well as the website I was building for MS. It may go up later, but for now... well, it's just extra, unneeded work.

SO GO LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO HERE! LEAVE FEEDBACK AND I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER. <3

Now, for our other project!

Dengeki Daisy
will ALSO continue as planned!

I have yet to send out an email to the previous cast, but the manga dub will continue. I have lines from the two most important characters, but I am missing A LOT of lines. What I believe will happen is that first, I will contact all involved with the animation, and see how interested they still are. Depending on that, we may have to see what'll happen with the visual aspect...

After that, I'll send out another email much like the one to the MS cast asking for continued assistance with their roles. Though it's not clear whether or not we will be doing more than one chapter of Dengeki Daisy, I am missing lines for most of the main supporting characters. These were mostly scouted, but some roles were casted. I'll see if these roles are still wanted, and if not, recast.

It'll take awhile to get off the ground, but it IS still happening. Please be patient with me! To Dusk-Requiem and xXLittlexGurlXx and those who turned in their lines, I thank you so much for your patience and for the fact that you actually turned in lines! Of course I'm not upset nor can I say anything to the people who never did, considering production was halted anyway.

Either way, it will be on it's way to the production room soon! As soon as I get my copy of Soundbooth in, I will be mixing what I can of the lines that I have. If you want to hear more about my progress on that, just send me a message! <3

If you'd like to HELP at all with the animation aspect, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send me a message!

But, that's it for me now. I'll keep you guys updated with production begins with episode Three of MS!

Edit: If you are involved in the cast of DD and would still like to continue to work with us (whether or not we do a chapter two, but you know, uh, yeah~!) please let me know. <3 =3 Thank you!!