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I get excited and I just can't fight it ^_^

JP ANDERSON as SAMHAINE TSUKE In case you didn't know the awesome JP ANDERSON from THE SHIZIT and RABBIT JUNK is the voice of the main character in HEART STRING MARIONETTE... I just got his final takes and they OWN... he did an amazing job... I was super excited when he said he would voice the character as I've been a fan of Rabbit Junk and The Shizit ever since I first heard them... In case you haven't heard Rabbit Junk here's some right here.. So yeh still waiting on the music so the film can be finished.... hmmm maybe I'll write a book in the meantime or somethin... Speaking of that IF you just can't wait and want more HSM stuff get my A_BOOK today! A_BOOK is also A_HAT!!!!

Fathoms on Kickstarter

I've been followin fellow animator Joe Russ and his project FATHOMS for a minute now and it looks like its going to be really tite! He just launched the Kickstarter campaign for Fathoms so go check it out!

Someone was screaming profanities?!

Recorded the voice of SIOUXSIE yesterday ^_^

THE BODY LOVES YOU!

On the horizon for strange people 2011-2012

So of course Heart String Marionette the film is being completed... I wrote the first rough draft of the Heart String Marionette fairy tale book yesterday and I'll keep working on that... at its core the story IS a fairy tale AND for some reason writing in that style is very natural for me...so yeh I'm excited about the illustrated fairy tale book... "Project Sooperman" is now known as "BADASSERY"... I thought the name needed to be simpler and I heeded Dave4096's advice from the comments about being sued by DC ^_^  So I'm preppin the kickstarter pitch for that to do 5 new episodes... then based on how that goes I will or will not produce a feature film version.... I'm outlining a live action absurd comedy/monster/horror feature to be shot on a small island in Iceland within the next 2 years... its an idea that's been brewing for awhile and now the affordable tech is up to the level I need it to be to do a high quality live action featur

The Masks That The Monsters Wear Teaser Trailer

Somethin new from my pal THAT MADMAN SCREAMERCLAUZ! He asked me to halp abort siamese twins babies in back alleyS for this one so how could I say No?!!?

START----> FINISH

So I r back from my quick trip to London to speak at dis MacVideo thang... I did my best to do like an inspiring go out and make your movie no matter how crazy it is thing... and they shot it with like 3 cameras and will post it online in the near future... I'll post the link here of course when it's available... but I think a big part of what I was saying was JUST START MAKING FILMS AND FINISH THEM... thanks to Rick for having me out there! Thanks for your suggestions, comments, concerns, and fears in regard to a prospective Project Sooperman film etc... I think what I'm leaning towards now is doing 5 new episodes.... Using Kickstarter to fund those episodes... then once those 5 are out... I will see if there is demand for a full length film based on it and if there is THEN I'll use Kickstarter to fund the feature version... if there isn't enough interest I'll start on my next "serious" feature... I have never used it BUT I think Kickstarter

Animating the alter ego

So I'm in London now... woke up at 4am since I went to sleeP early because of the lag of jets... My goal today before I go speak at the video expo is to go to a Cartoon Museum, a Toy Museum and buy an inflatable Dalek... got to get your priorities straight nah mean? So now that I have some time to think... of course my thoughts fall on HSM... and Project SOOPERMAN ^_^ HSM will be totally completed in the next 2 months... what will we do with it after that? Not too sure... Not too excited about film festivals.... not too excited about simply posting it online... We'll probably shop it around and try to work some deals so you can see it in a theater eventually ^_^  As we believe its REALLY something special so we want to make sure when you first see it its in the best way possible... In the meantime while the HSM magick is being worked behind the scenes I plan to kick out several new Project SOOPERMAN episodes AND a Project SOOPERMAN feature film... now that may sound crazy

Festivals should SERVE the Filmmakers not vice versa

So HSM was accepted into a festival wherein WATS had won some awards and was apparently popular with audiences there in 2007 which means it made the festival $$$ And what are film festivals without films? NOTHING... How would they make their money if FILMmakers didn't pay their entry fees? How would they make money if people didn't pay to see the FILMS? They wouldn't... so since FILMMAKERS are making them this $$$ and allowing them to EXIST you would think they would share the love a little eh? You would think that an established independent filmmaker like myself who creates unique films unlike any other in the world with a dedicated little international audience would get a little love? Now as a filmmaker you pay your entry fee... this one was $85... the film festival charges admission and makes more $$$ off the films and what do you get as a filmmaker? A T-shirt? So when the festival told me that they "couldn't" pay for flights for neither Endika nor I

Preview in LONDON this Thursday the 9th! + Lend me your screams!!!!

I HEAR voices

So while Endika is finishing up the music for the film... I'm working with the voice actors and making sure everything gets recorded... I'm working with most of the actors remotely... awesome peoples like Jimmy Urine, JP Anderson, ScreamerClauZ, FunyMony amongst others... BUT this weekend actor Ricky Grove who reads and comments on this here blog! came up to San Jose to do the voice of LORD WOR and he did an awesome job... Ricky and the P.A. JonboY It was a pleasure working with a great actor like Ricky and I look forward to working with him more in the future! We also showed him some of the film in progress and just hung out and chatted about all things film, art, music and geek... it was a great time! Endika and Ricky If your in LA or are visiting make sure and drop by Ricky's used bookstore! I've never been there but it sounds like a suitE place and it couldn't have a nicer or more knowledgeable guy workin there ^_^ Ok I better prepare my presentat

He wore a mask like a clown...

Too busy to tease 0_o

Sorry for not releasing any more trailers... I've been too busy with everything to cut another one... Right now I'm editing, doing foley, sound design, dropping in voice acting as I get it and doing temp mixes... a lot of the time is taken up by preparing materials for the voice actors as most all of them are being done elsewhere... I give them the script pieces of course as well as two quicktime files... one REF video which has all teh temp voices as a reference... and one SYNC video which is all the voices in the scene except theirs so they can load it into theY DAW and sync to they characters movements... I create these files for every character and every scene... and with this second pass of voice acting I started recording myself giving direction in an audio file I include with the scenes.... Hopefully I can make a little time before the world premiere in July to put out another trailer...perhaps the official one with all the voices and everything? ^ ^ Now I know its