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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Coloring Books for Adults



Messing around with this new app. I lets you zap in your own designs and easily color them. And then it slaps its logo on it! Arrgh! But it is a fun app, you should all try it.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The shelf


The US and UK Editions, at long last!


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CVM status

Hi!

384 steps until the movie is done.

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Monday, August 08, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: Monday morning status.




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Sunday, August 07, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: Spread Sheet Status



Those last two columns with all the white, don't sweat it. Mostly rendering and adding dissolves. It's those scattered whites in the middle that take a while; clown keying and adding their punchout patterns. There are a lot of props still to move around, but that puts me in a zen state, so no sweat. One of those columns is blood splatter, that might take a hot second, so we will see if I have time before the screening this Saturday.


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Friday, August 05, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: Status Friday Night




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Monday, August 01, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: Status on the Spreadsheet

So the black is done, the white is to do. The screening is on August 13th.





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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: There are No Monkeys in this Dojo!

The movie is raging forward as we push to get it ready for the 13th of August.

Here's a new location I haven't posted before.




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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: captain's log

Last night's log. Progress is progressing.

The plot to CvM revealed!

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey Chunk#5 Stills




















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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: When Bonzo Met Preston



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Monday, July 04, 2016

H4J!

41 days/ 936 pieces.

Zombeak! will be released stateside tomorrow on the They Crawl compilation from Echo Bridge Entertainment.

Happy Forth!


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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: 45



I did not get further with pieces last night, but got the computer to cool down and did some clean up.

Computer running better, need to get some more space. The RAM cannot be increased.4G is as big as it can get on this machine. Will improvise.

Right now, the score is 981/45.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: RAM

Knock Knock

- Who's There?

RAM

- RAM Who?

4 gigs of RAM is not enough to finish this movie. Maybe when it was a little guy, but now, no. Buy some RAM.

- Who are you?



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Monday, June 27, 2016

Clown Versus Monkey: Into the Abyss

So here's some math.

I have 988 steps left to finish Clown Versus Monkey.

A friend wants to show it at a festival coming up.

He will show it as a work in progress.

I have 1152 hours before the fest.

I can do about 3 steps in an hour, baring computer glitches and obsessive tweaking.

That is 3/988 = 329 hours.

329/48 = 6.85 hours a day.

Let's say 7 hours a day, until August.

Let's say 3.5 before work and 3.5 after work.

Is it possible? Can I live 48 days in that CvM zone?

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Cameron Conkle's Mars Rover Life Cycle




Cameron spent five hours drawing 100 pictures of the Mars Rover's life cycle.

I put some sound effects on it and there you go. Cameron's obsessive personality is perfect for animation. We actually had some creative differences over how many "pops" to use.

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Ten Reasons You Should See The Church (1989)




1. A big event in high school was when a group of buddies and I took the subway to the one theater in Atlanta that was showing Cemetery Man. It was a horror geek pilgrimage to see a bonafide Italian Zombie Movie. A great movie, a great memory. Cemetery Man became a reference point in our marathon movie conversations. The director Michele Soavi did this movie before Cemetery Man, and you can see the same style here, especially when winged lizard man shows up.



2. This movie is all about the atmosphere. Nothing scary happens, but it’s so beautifully shot, staged, and lit that you don’t care. Great atmosphere and takes full advantage of the huge gothic cathedral they shot in. If you get to shoot in an ancient gothic cathedral, it can only help your movie. You got Cathedral? Movie makes itself.

3. Asia Argento is here as a gawky preteen who loves to go out to cheesy Italian discos and dance with preppy little dweebs in Member’s Only jackets. This was way before I met Asia at a Fango convention, married her, only to have the  relationship fall apart under the microscope of public scrutiny. It was nobody’s fault. Somethings aren’t built to last.

4. Hey, it has the degenerate from Gates of Hell, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, all grown up and bald, this time playing a priest. Even in the white collar, this guy is a greasy mess.




5. Speaking of greasy messes, everyone in this movie ends up coated in baby oil. I liked that, lots of greasy hair and greasy, grimy skin, and an alter made of muddy, writhing bodies. I guess that was an alter. Maybe an animal head? Not sure what they were going for, but it looked cool. Bottomline: There are no wet wipes in this world.

6. I liked that they didn’t go Evil Dead make up in depicting  the possessed people. People just start acting crazy. You don’t know who’s possessed, or if everyone is possessed. Is anyone sane in this movie?!? The over the top acting and dubbing adds to this confusion. Are they crazy and possessed, or is this just bad acting? It’s great.

7.  The greatest dubbing comes when someone gets possessed and starts retching and gagging. I can picture the actor in the sound booth making all these noises, the director trying to guide his gacks and groans. Hilarious.

8. Philip Glass on the soundtrack, if that’s your kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing, kind of thing. You also get Goblin. So it’s legit.




9.  Goat Head Man was fantastic. Imagine the love scene in Rosemary’s Baby, but with a big rubber goat head.

10. I missed this when it came out in the 80s. I love the homemade feel. All done in camera. I didn’t see one optical.  Feels like theater and photography, not like Home Video with CG monsters thrown on top.

Pairs well with: Prince of Darkness (1987) – It’s Carpenter, so you know it’s awesome, and the two movies share a lot of plot similarities.


Show Stopper! Two words: Subway Train


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