Science has done it again

Just a short one because I haven't released anything a while. I've been meaning to do this one for ages and I finally got around to re-voicing and animating it. Sorry there's no backgrounds or shading/colour, but it's hand drawn and finished. Took a few hours, enjoy.

Testosterone Madness

Did a new video with some friends of us mucking around and yelling. Holidays are the best...

The Budgy Book

Been too busy for flash lately, too busy doing other interesting stuff like this children's book called Budgy the Budgeting Bird. Basically it's about this budgie named Budgy who's so good at budgeting he wrecks the local economy and suffers the consequences. Credit goes to my good friend Michael Manci for coming up with the story; I had so much fun illustrating it.

Possible morals behind the story:
-Always support your local economy
-Listen to you mother, especially when she's being a bitch
-Penguins are ideal for government employment

Back in Production. Scary, Scary Production

So what have I been up to? Well, mostly pimping, selling drugs, building nuclear devices and other mundane activities, but I've also been playing this free survival horror game called SCP: Containment Breach. It's based on fictional documents from The SCP Foundation, and basically its an area 51ish facility filled with different monsters and ghoulies and what not. Some of you will already be very familiar with this game as I've been pushing some of my friends to play it. I, personally, find it very unnerving and fun to play. You can download it for free here.

 I'll be doing a flash parody on the game. It's already recorded; it uses audio taken from the game and my voice acting and is exactly three minutes long :D Of course, it won't be very scary. More...goofy. It's pretty much my experience of the game.

It's a solo project I have to do in between school work so I have no idea how long it will take. Also, if I have time I'll release another one of my weird videos on Youtube.

Puppetry

I'm sure you're all wondering how my "detective" flash is coming along.
...Not as well as I hoped.

So far I've got a few small scenes written, and even some recordings done which are mildly amusing. The story I have right now, however, has no ending, is filled with gaps and barely incorporates the side characters. It's just Lance and Skittles running around town getting into trouble. I don't feel it's worth animating as it is, and It's taking me forever to come up with a full story. To make matters worse I still don't have a decent voice actor for the Chief and I don't think I can really pull it off myself. So at least for now, this project is on hold until I finish the story or abandon it altogether.

Of course, I haven't been doing NOTHING. About 2 weeks ago I animated a small scene that I found pretty funny, which was to be shown early in the flash. Lance heads into town to look for a new recruit for the department and arrives at the city park where he finds a puppet stall with, you guessed it, John Skittles inside. I wanted Skittles to formerly have a profession that would in no way qualify him for the job. And so, puppets. :D

Only the puppet show itself is animated, everything else is static. Hopefully it'll be enough.



 

Detectives Update

So yes, this little series will in fact be going ahead, and I'm already underway in writing the script, recording, and doing backgrounds and symbols for the flash.

I've been talking to some people about this project and some things occurred to me. My impression of Alice the receptionist isn't very feminine. I don't think this is really a problem though, I think it just makes it funnier. If you look at Bob's Burgers, which I personally love, you'll find that two of the three female members of the family are voiced by men. (I'd also like to mention that show is made with Flash :D) As for the Chief, I'm not sure I can voice him properly. I'll be voicing Skittles and Lance myself, as they're the main duo of this show, and they'll have the most lines. They already sound alike. If I try to voice everyone it'll all sound the same and that's gonna make it a little repetitive.

As for the animation side of it, I'm trying my best to keep it simple, because this isn't exactly short. I'm using stickmen for the majority of the characters, and I'm skipping shading. It will, of course, be in colour. Yay!
I don't know of those around me also have an interest in Flash, so at the moment I'll be taking this on myself, which I'm okay with, but it will take a while to complete it and make it look smooth.

So if you know me personally and you'd like to try voicing a character, contact me however. I would also like to know who knows their way around flash and animating. It's a lot of fun doing these projects, I promise.

Also, my wacom drawing tablet arrived a few days ago. It's absolutely fantastic. I got the Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch in a medium size, which is about A4. It's very smooth and reliable, and the pen doesn't need batteries. It'll help in making backgrounds and doing more complicated sketches.