Some people say that the last 5% of a project takes 95% of the work. I’m not sure I completely agree, but I am starting to see the point.<\/p>\n
We’ve been working for months (in some ways, for years) to build toward a demo that we will show in about a week at the Siggraph conference. The work has gone through many phases.<\/p>\n
But this last phase is different. It’s the polishing part, the part when we make final choices, when we time things out.<\/p>\n
This is when we need to make the hard decisions about what to leave on the cutting room floor. No matter how much work we had put into things.<\/p>\n
As Chekhov sort of said, creation is easy. Editing is hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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