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It's about time we completely finished this fucking movie eh?! ^_^ So A LOT is going to happen in the next month... -Finished soundtrack -Final voice acting -Complete Foley/Sound design for the second half of the film -Final edit -Final mix -Final FILM After not drinking coffee for about a year I'm back on the black stuff 0_0 So because of this months workload I expect dark bags under the eyes, states of mental confusion, exhaustion, and a strong desire to want to turn the computer off and sleep..... but alas I am a demon robot..... Being so close to the finish line and with the WORLD PREMIERE set for July this IS the time to sprint! So I shall grind the final month of grinding for HEART STRING MARIONETTE! Back to sound design for me......

The good folks over at MacVideo expo are flying me out to present at their London Expo June 9th. Click here for info  I'll be doing a presentation about my workflow as well as showing NEVER BEFORE SEEN footage from HEART STRING MARIONETTE....so if your out there come check it out! It looks like a good show and its only like 11 poundZ to get in. Hope to see you there!

IF you want to attend the HSM world premiere then you should probably be in Montreal some time in mid to late July ^_^ The TIME is NIGH!

So I'm close to having half of the final voices recorded now....and today I got the stuff for the main character  voiced by JP Anderson of the band RABBIT JUNK and... OMG it is AWESOME?!?! 0_0 The second sequence of the film has almost all of the voices and YES the characters are ALIVE and yeh its NUTS! Tomorrow I'll get to the 3rd sequence which features a monster voiced by SCREAMERCLAUZ! So yeh thanks to all the voice actors! If I haven't received your takes yet or you're working hard on them now mega thanks!!!

So earlier this month I sent half of the film to half of the voice actors... that first batch is due back by the 30th... then I'll send out the second half of work and everything else to all of the voice actors next week... I was in Iceland the past 3 weeks where I recorded voices for 7 characters and today I'll be recording the voice of actor Zhubin Rahbar who plays the coveted role of "JERKFACE" who is easily the biggest jerk in the whole film ^_^ What a JERKFACE! I'll be working with him in Endika's studio... since Endika is working on the music right now I won't be recording on his main rig... I'll be recording in a back room using my Macbook Pro and the Blue Baby Bottle mic and Presonus USbPre that we we're able to get with your paypal donations way back when ^_^ The main female character Siouxsie is still not cast... I've tried 3 different actresses so far but it's a really tough role and we might be holding local auditions soo

Now there are many pro's to being a solo 3d animation studio BUT right now I'm feelin the con's... Too many projects to complete... too little time...  I'm waiting on the music and the voice actors to put the finishing touches on HEART STRING MARIONETTE which is my new 3d animated feature type thing... but I have enough busy work to do for HSM to prevent me from doing anything else.... I wrote a bunch of new SOOPERMAN episodes and they are HILARIOUS I must say ^ ^ Look at all of em! I have hand written outlines for a few others I haven't converted to script format yet... AND I'm outlining a SOOPERMAN feature film BUT I have no time to make the stuff... once HSM is DONE then I have to get to work producing the DVD release and all those materials and some other tutorial things and the like to hustle... that'll probably eat up the rest of 2011.... unless I like sell HSM to a distributor and they do all that crap...  So I'll do my best to get more of thi

Dug up this old CRAZY short film I made in 2001... it was my first and only one mostly in Spanish... Thanks to my friend Sivan for starring in this one ^_^ It's crazy shit isn't it 0_o AND NONE of us we're on anything 0_0

Making 3d animated feature films alone or UBERECTING is a very niche subject. It's VERY difficult to find any information about it as no one really does it, except for a few CRAZY people out there ^_^ This text is taken from my A_BOOK which is the "art-of" and "making-of" book for my new 3d animated feature film HEART STRING MARIONETTE. I decided to make this ebook available for free because I think it would be useful to many more peoples besides the would-be UBERECTORS out there. So if you have any interest in creating low budget 3d animated films on your own or with a small team I think this e-book will be useful to you. Here is a list of the chapters in this ebook. Introduction Making of: HOW Brainstorm: Outline: Script: Storyboard: Animatic: Inventory: Concept Art: Modeling: Layout: Lighting: Character Rigging/Skinning: Animation: Rendering: Compositing: Editing: WORKFLOW Sequence Approach: Quotas: Breakdowns: Compete Against Yourself

Check that out.... the first draft of the HEART STRING MARIONETTE script was done in January of 2008... and just yesterday I make the final draft which is revision 34... as you know the last edit of the film is the final draft of the script.... The first "working" revision of the animatic was done in December of 2008 So then 2009 was pretty much all design/modeling/texturing/rigging etc... and 2010 was production... 2011 compositing/edit....post... and 2011 will be the year you see it. Time is a precious thanG... so you have to be careful what you let eat it up... making films the way I do certainly does eat up time in big chunks but there's nothing else I'd rather do so its no big deal ^ ^ So if HSM took 3 years+ to complete... my next "big" serious film will take no more than 2 years... as I've learned so much on how to streamline the process and I'm able to do better work faster... So yeh that's my goal from now on.... High quality 3d