Still Working

Sorry I don't update much here but there's really nothing new for me to post about just yet!

Brief Hiatus

The show's progress is currently on hold while I get my final film for class finished.  Thankfully that means that I'll continue with more experience and better technique! 8D

Happy Hallovalenweentine's Day!

So I was listening to Zach's Kandy Coated Kackles and thought it would be a fun idea to figure out which songs each character liked, both as a development exercise and to use my favorites for Halloween parties.  I decided to upload it here for Halloween music lovers out there and even added some of my own songs so it wouldn't be a direct rip-off of KCK, lol.  What are you waiting for?  Start listening! ;)

P.S. Let me know if any of them don't work or something like that.  It's 12:30 AM right now and I can barely keep my eyes open, let alone listen to test the links!

1. This is Halloween (Danny Elfman)

2. Transylvania 1887 (Alan Silvestri)

3. Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)

4. Dracula Theme/Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

5. My Son the Vampire (Allan Sherman)

6. Gremlins Theme (Danny Elfman)

7. Fright Night Theme (J. Geils Band)

8. Psycho Theme (Bernard Herrmann)

9. The Witch Queen of New Orleans (Redbone)

10. The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Primus)

11. Midnight Stroll (The Revells)

12. Skeletons in My Closet (Alice Cooper)

13. Nosferatu (The Coral)

14. Ghost of Stephen Foster (Squirrel Nut Zippers)

15. Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)

16. The Devil Inside (INXS)

17. Ghost Riders in the Sky (Johnny Cash)

18. Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers)

19. Weird Science (Oingo Boingo)

20. The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)

  
1. It's Terror Time Again (Skycycle)

2. Thriller (Michael Jackson)

3. Scary Monsters & Super Creeps (David Bowie)

4. The Creature From the Black Lagoon (Dave Edmunds)

5. Dig Up Her Bones (The Misfits)

6. Have You Ever Seen...? (The Boss Martians)

7. Dragula (Rob Zombie)

8. The Flying Dutchman (The Ghastly Ones)

9. Fashion Zombies! (The Aquabats)

10. Haunted Cathouse (Nekromantix)

11. Buried Alive (Creature Feature)

12. Brains! (Voltaire)

13. Rockula (Los Straightjackets)

14. Halloween (Siouxsie & the Banshees)

15. The Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon (The Cramps)

16. Terror in the Haunted House (Blitzkid)

17. Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo)

18. Boris the Spider (The Who)

19. The Maddest Story Ever Told (Lon Chaney Jr.)

20. Everybody Scream (Rob Zombie)

1. Disney's Haunted Mansion (Buddy Baker)

2. The Yodeling Ghost (Bing Crosby)

3. Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula (The Diamonds)

4. Beetlejuice Theme (Danny Elfman)

5. Taboo (Gene Summers)

6. Mysterioso (Artie Shaw)

7. Spooky (Classics IV)

8. Witchcraft (Frank Sinatra)

9. The Twilight Zone Theme (Marius Constant)

10. The Blob (The Five Blobs)

11. Watusi Zombie (Jan Davis)

12. The Man With the Hex (The Atomic Fireballs)

13. Evil Night Together (Jill Tracy)

14. Harlem Nocturne (The Viscounts)

15. Sinners (Freddie & the Hitchhikers)

16. Bogey Wail (Jack Hylton & Sam Browne)

17. The Mice, the Demons, & the Piggies (Wolfgang & the Jumpin' Terrors)

18. Sweeney Todd Opening Title (Stephen Sondheim)

19. Nightmare (Artie Shaw)

20. The Legend of the Headless Horseman (Bing Crosby)

One more thing: PLEASE don't direct-link these songs or it'll ruin it for all of us.  Have fun listening!

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Hmm.  You know, I haven't updated here in a while.  That's because...I have nothing to say.

Mark & Brian's Christmas Show!

For my dad's birthday yesterday, we went to see a show hosted by some radio comics on 95.5 KLOS.  My parents sat in row 4 and my mom's friend Kellie and I sat in row 5.  We were about 15 feet from the stage so that was really cool. :P  PICTURES!!!

 

Kellie, dad, and me.  I cosplayed as Gio!!!  Haha, I totally wasn't ready...

 

My mom has curlers in her hair... XD as for me, this one's not much better :P

 

Mark and Brian!

 

Sammy Hagar.  He was a lot of fun.

 

Edgar Winter.  He stole the show when they played "Frankenstein."

 

 

Sammy again.

 

Morgan Freeman read "Twas the Night Before Christmas."  How awesome! 8D (too bad our camera hates us)

 

Steve Miller was the headliner!!!  I love him!

 

Those lights were really pretty, especially during "Abracadabra." My parents had the camera and didn't take a picture during that though.

 

My dad took these pictures and he had front & center so that's why the mic is in front of him in every shot.

 

I thought this was a neat one of my dad. XD

 

Hey look, it's a blurry picture of Kellie and I! (Excuse my messy hair; we got rained on pretty hard) 

Yep...that was fun.  My ears were ringing as I tried to get to sleep, haha.  Anyways see you guys later!  More cartoon progress coming soon...

New Characters? ...Maybe?

So there's this series of stories I've been working on for a long time.  The earliest concepts for it started in 2003. O_O  I can't even put into words the amount of work I dedicated to that project.  Gio and Ghosteh used to be a part of it until Gio got his own show :P  But, with GtM having far more progress in only two years (not to mention this old series is beginning to look kind of silly), I'm seriously considering scrapping that series, except for a story or two out of the original five.  I am saving my favorite characters for other projects and three of them might be introduced as minor characters in GtM.

These new characters consist of a girl (finally! :P) whom I need to draw an updated look for, and a set of male identical twins who need name changes.  I won't reveal them to the general public until an episode with them is about to be released...which won't be for a while...x_x As for the rest of the characters from that old story... that'll be for another blog once their stories are redone. :D

Latest Updates

I haven't been doing a lot of animation lately.  Instead, I've been finishing up everything else and getting a head start on the second episode so there won't be such a long break in between the first two episodes' releases.  The second script has been giving me a lot of trouble for many months now, but I think what I have so far meets my high expectations.  I've just got to write in the missing parts of dialogue where I changed or cut scenes out.  It'll be finished soon! :D

Here's something I've been working on for so long I can't even remember and no one knows about: a seamless design for a background, wallpaper, fabric, etc. with the trio in various drawings, almost like a collage.  Hardly anything is inked yet and it definitely won't be finished for a while, but the sketches are looking pretty good and I can't wait to have it as a background here.

I've got a bunch of other awesome things planned so stay tuned...