Q: Are you happy with the length of hotewig? In sure it was tough to work on a project for almost a year, especially while getting so many questions about when the video will be done, why aren't you posting any videos, etc... ideally, would you have liked to make hotewig even longer and more detailed/inclusive? Or when you first stated working on the project did you kind of set a time limit for how long you wanted it to be (like you told yourself you wanted it to be around 20min or so)? Btw I love the video as is, and I don't mean to sound as if I'm criticizing it or anything like that. Just curious how the finished product compared to your early expectations in terms of detail and length.
A: i was hoping it would be about 5 to 7 minutes, 10 maximum. but it turns out the history of the entire world is not a very short story. i was trying to shorten it as much as possible at every turn but it went beyond 10 minutes, and with each passing minute of writing i kept promising myself that it would absolutely not go longer than 12 minutes, 15 minutes, 17 minutes, etc etc. ... when i finished the script it was timed at 21:45. then over the course of the preliminary graphics design, i was making a lot of changes and cuts and managed to get it down to about 19. was very concerned that it was too long, not only for production's sake but also for the viewers' sake