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august 9, 2000
spent the weekend in vegas and won and lost alot of money. i can't say it was my thing very much and sort of need a vacation from the vacation. it was very hot and somewhat stressful and full of sad and angry people that scared me. i tend to prefer trips that take you to a place where you can meet locals, not to go to a place where there is only a bunch of other tourists. it sort of seems like a non-destination that way. so anyways half of my clothes smell like cigarettes and the other half smell like hotel and airplane. and all of them have that sort of suitcase whiff to them. i was very sleepy in the head but am recovered now. so i spent the weekend before last at my parents' house and dug through boxes of old drawing pads. i can't believe how many of these things i'd filled up. from when i was like 4 to 12 i'd spend hours scrawling thousands of pages of cartoons and never-ending series of ridiculously violent action stories. i couldn't help jotting down some dialogue highlights from these highly thought-out and intricate military operations:
CAPTAIN ZONG Our meeting for today is to have me and some volunteering soldiers and Rubber Man to fly over and get Dr. Fygar's blueprints for my giant robot. Now you will see what the robot will look like after it is built. On the film projector. Unfortunately the Black Glove has one too. He's planning to destroy San Francisco with it. It takes someone to control it. I will. A SOLDIER Who will control the Black Glove's? CAPTAIN ZONG Somebody called the Black Fighter.later on... CAPTAIN ZONG Hello Black Fighter. I just followed your path of destroyed buildings and dead people.an elaborate fight ensues... CAPTAIN ZONG Ooooh! THE BLACK FIGHTER Too much for you am I not? CAPTAIN ZONG Now for my sonic missile!these are pretty good samples too... "Our next mission is to stop our enemy to get the crystal of the lost tempal. It is so powerful with it we could destroy a base!"and... "Two saboteirs tried to free the Eye, the Dark Glove, and his brother so I think we should end the war and drop them in acid." (everyone cheers)aaah memories. i'm glad my writing has improved but i can't say it's nearly as fun anymore. well, this weekend marks another round of massive dialogue recording for the next film. i promise to fill you in on all that when i have more energy and it's a little more underway. meanwhile, here is something somebody sent: something else
july 25, 2000
the rest of the weekend was much better. i met some nice folks and we had a great screening. 'rejected' premiered to an audience of over a thousand and proved itself as a wild force to be reckoned with. the cheering began with the appearance of the first title and never let up. big, fun relief for me. many thanks to all who came for being so incredibly loud and supportive. so that film is officially wrapped and behind us and the mass drinking and intravenous drugs may begin.
was interesting to discover my inability at the comic con to whip up decent drawings of billy
or lily or whatever for people who asked for them. i did my best, but i haven't drawn certain
things in over 2 or 3 years and simply can't do it so easily anymore. that's sort of sad considering
they're frigging stick people. the reality of it is simply that when you're animating
you're tracing the damn thing thousands of times into oblivion and rarely ever draw it free-hand. so thank
you for patiently accepting the happy crap i was able to whip up instead and sign : )
bwooooooop? ummm so yes, there will be 'rejected' t-shirts made for all of you to clothe your filthy nakedness with. still settling on a design, but i promise it will be foxy. if you buy a shirt i will do a little shirt dance for you. no, still no word on the comic strip future. all-righty... it looks like by the time i write next all these production thorns will be behind us and i will actually be writing about life again... i promise i will have absolutely nothing interesting to say and things will be back to normal ummm boy. so here is the latest viewer contribution. this one is pretty good if you ask me. it is sort of a long download and is extra better if you have speakers.
uh huh
july 9, 2000
i found this on the ground the other day, on a 3x5 card. Dear Sir,
poetry. ok, will let you know how everything pans out this week. cross your fingers for us
and we will finally have this cartoon done. here is the latest viewer contribution:
waaa
june 26, 2000
june 21, 2000
meanwhile, saturday was spent back in the sound studio recording about 50 performers (both actors and people w/o experience) for the very next project. i'll spend the next few days going over the entire day's recordings and picking out what we're looking for and DOWNSTAIRS SOMEBODY IS DRILLING INTO MY FLOOR... ummm so once i can compile a master of the performances i need, they'll be handed off to brian to do some pretty massive dialogue breakdown whilst i take a bit of a break. can't say too much about this next project just yet, though i can tell you it will be visually amazing and i'm practicing walk cycles. lots of walk cycles. ok now they're pounding downstairs. i think somebody new is moving in. so saturday was indeed a long, hot day of recording and wrangling everyone, but they all did a really great job and i did my best to bake cookies for everyone. yes, i took another crack at operating the oven. meanwhile, 'being there' was on tv with peter sellers. i had no idea that the cookies would expand so much so my very first attempt was pretty much a sea of cookie dough that filled the sheet end to end. i then decided that i should have first invested in oven mitts. i was sort of able to break the thing up into cookie forms but they were sort of burnt. but the next couple tries came out pretty good. the adventure continues. just wrapped up another feature screenplay today which is an extremely important baby to me. meanwhile, what of the future of 'temporary anesthetics' you ask? i still don't know. believe it or not, it's still tied up in legal hell. el gato is muy grade.
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