So the first Animated tests are done and they are...

okay, really their are some fixes that need to be made but overal they're really good! especially after cleanup. My last film was completed on December 4th 2009, its now April 16th, I'm seventeen and my next film still is not finished. I feel like a failure. I have five more films to complete by this time and that's a lot of pressure and even more work. Soooo I need to find a system where I can work on these movies. I'm also feeling like reading more I'm going to try and make a reading list at some point but it's going to be out their. I'm watching the Naked Gun right now and on TCM of all places? also on Monday I'm having a screening of my hipster documentary in Provosts Room at Second lunch on Monday, so if you want to show up you can (unless you're not cool enough, then go buy some tight pants, join a band and then maybe). I really want to make a movie in live action. It would be nice to get something done faster and collaborativley. I'm also very excited for the A-P retreat in May and Cirque du Soleil on the 22nd of April. this was fun I should do this more often but I need to make more plans.

Pictures from Duel

More pictures from production of Between Gentlemen, just some characters and how there supposed to look when I draw them. Since I'll wind up drawing thesese two for who knows how many times it's important to know certain things that need to stay the exact same for every single jaw-dropping, mind numbing frame of animation. I think this one will be about a minute or so longer than Pulp which is yet to be determined whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing, although it's hard to do anything in only 1 minute.

by the way, Pulp has an IMDB page now

heres the link

oh and Newport Beach has also rejected my film, this is just a guess but its probably due to poor AVI quality, so future films are going to be formatted on Quicktime for better quality image.

Rejected!!

so I've decided to submit my films (actually I made this decision in December but whatever) to film festivals. It's wonderful to see you're stuff on a big screen and what better way to get it onto one (with a real audience I might add) than in a film festival. So I've submitted PULP to three festivals so far
ASIFA (don't remember what the acronym spells out)
Newport Beach
LA Film Festival

,and I plan on submitting it two three or four more festivals.
Recently I heard back from ASIFA as to whether or not I was submitted

Dear Michael,

First, thanks much for submitting your work to ASIFA Portland's Spring
Showcase. We (the showcase jury) spent a lot of hours trying to
whittle a surprisingly strong batch of entries into a streamlined
program. We had the luxury of having a lot of animation to choose from
(including work from luminaries like Joanna Priestley, Teresa
Drilling, and Rose Bond) but also the chore of having to cut more than
a dozen good submissions. We won't be including your piece in the
final program, but hope you're already working on something to submit
next year. It's great to see new young talent step up in this field.
Thanks again!

Well thank goodness the good movies were accepted.
maybe my next movie will fair better and I still have two
more festivals to hear back from.
Just going to keep it positive.

And of course! news on Between Gentlemen. I've started animating certain scenes although I still need to figure a couple more things out (what three of the characters will look like and what the manor in the background will look like) but I'll get to that no worries.

wow this was a long post!

Storyboard for Pulp

Well for anyone that's interested here's the whole storyboard which incluedes a character sheet for the two main characters.

It's a bit messy but I'll make a cleaned up version of the storyboard for my concentration.

So I've been thinking...

About my concentration and what it will be. And I've decided that It's going to be animation. Now why you may be asking, well because I'm the only doing it and because it's a great thing to expand on. With animation I can push what I'm working with to whatever. I can explore new ideas and themes with this medium and do that in a story form that can be followed and interpreted in many different ways. I can do my next two films that I've already planned on doing then do something completely different (I'm feeling a noir).

And btw I'm planning on putting up my storyboard for Pulp, but be warned it's a messy one.

An appropriate evaluation of PULP

so after last night I was spent and couldn't really work on an appropriate evaluation since it took from when I got home to just before I went to sleep to get the video uploaded. So now I will give an honest critique of my piece, PULP. and while I can't evaluate on all of the critea from the Blog Update and Critique handout, I will still give a few words on it.

I can't really say it's a good piece (being fair to myself it is my first), but I am proud of it. I think one of the best shots in the film is the opening shot and the closing shot of the two boxers standing in the ring boxing them out from the rest of the masses. Making there strife and struggle to defeat one another an isolated incident only to be pervayed and enjoyed by the masses. which is what the entire film is about, violence being used as a form of entertainment. While we as a society or culture normally would never condone violence as an enjoyable thing there is still a great facination with the idea of watching people beat themselves to a pulp and to add on to that even enjoy it. Possibly it's human nature.

Pulp film Uploaded!

Holy moly!!! it took about an hour but it finally uploaded (and at only one minutes and 25 seconds), well come pervay all of you wipper snapers and come watch some moving pictures.

I should probably (definitley) put up the storyboard for this film as well, but be warned it's messy.

Anyways enjoy the movie