M dot Strange's blog

Weeks after meaning to install Source Filmmaker I finally installed it and Steam and messed around with it a bit tonight and I must say HOLY SHEEEIT to both Steam and Source Filmmaker... Source Filmmaker is amazing! As I was using it I kept looking back at my lovely assistant as I was messing with it going OMG THIS IS AMAZING?! DID YOU SEE THAT?! The workflow is definitely the future of animated filmmaking... it is POSSIBLE to import all original content I guess - but its not really designed to do that BUT there will be a tool in the near future that will use a similar workflow and be friendlier with original assets I reckon... the ability to record multiple takes of an animated actor and the camera and everything else in a LIVE edit is DOPE... don't know what I'm talking about? Go install it watch the tutorial vids in the help menu and screw around with it. I hadn't installed or used Steam until tonight either and I was blown away by it as well... So easy to find,

This animation was part of the tve youtube relay  Thanks to tve for commissioning me to make strange stuff ^_^

ScreamerclauZ made a facebook page for the podcast which we just did a few new episodes for- you can find the itunes link there and if you have any questions/comments for the podcast please leave them there in the fb page thang As I was advised from some wise peeps on this blog- I created a new personal youtube channel for my tutorials/film school/rant type videos- you can find it here  I'll be posting there regularly- here's a PEOPLE R STRANGE ad I put up last week So as per the good advice I removed over 450 videos from my mdotstrange youtube channel - what remains is finished animation and films- so if you flip through the vids on the channel or send someone there all they'll see is my films and stuff, so they won't get lost in random video craP. Thanks to a referral from my homie Mike from Nigeria this organization commissioned me to make a short animation about nature/environmental issues-  it has a giant monster banana fighting a half chicken/chicken &qu

Recently discovered the films of Konstantin Lopushansky   - I watched all the ones I could find-since demonoid is dead and the bay didn't have much I got em on rutracker.org- His films are SO DARK, metaphysical and awesome- My fav was The Ugly Swans check it out here! Steven Pressfield- the author of the must have book THE WAR OF ART dropped a new book to knock off the cobwebs and get you chasing your dreams- its called TURNING PRO  - I read it last night and it got me out of the muck and back towards the moonlight ^ ^ Scrapping God Lives Underwater as my next film- tore it to shreds, using some of its shreds and some other things to craft an all new idea/script this week- no title yet- Have decided to turn my sci-fi screenplay into a novel - as well as my erotic horror script into a novel as well- I've never tried to express my ideas in the form of a novel so I'm going to go for it and put them out- So lots of change- lots of movement- the gears are turning under

My new book "Scripts_Scribbles_Storyboards" contains the original 76 page screenplay from Heart String Marionette as well as all 1500+ storyboard frames hand drawn by me. A glimpse behind the curtain at the strange structure that created the film.  See deleted scenes and shots in the storyboards that were not used in the film, decipher the enigma that is Heart String Marionette. Front Cover Back Cover Title Page Real script note scan pages  Storyboard pages Script pages Real script note scans It's only $15.00 - You can buy it now  HERE It's 232 pages- The complete script+The complete Storyboards+some notes and drawings from the development of the film