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A NIGHT OF HORROR is a new film festival premiering in Sydney, Australia this coming March. In their call for submissions, they specified three entry categories: general horror, animation, and adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft. So I had to enter, didn’t I? Today I learned that THE OTHER GODS has been chosen to screen at the […]
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A little more than a year ago, I purchased an Aiptek DV 4500, which I termed the Swiss Army camera. (See my initial review HERE.) Now that it’s been through Hell and back, I wanted to do a follow-up review. What attracted me to the camera was the multiple functions: still photos, video, and MP3 […]
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I recently had the pleasure of working with artist/musician Adam English on a cartoon entitled “Clicker Clatter.” Well, he’s multi-talented, and one of those talents is presenting songs about Mr. Potato Head and Aquaman to crowds of adoring geek fans. So come out for a night of frivolity February 18th. You won’t regret it, and […]
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A recent thread at Indieclub.com got me thinking about the origins of the Kraken. The most famous (Release the Kraken!) reference would be as the giant Harryhausen-animated monster from Clash of the Titans. Now that Pirates of the Carribean (plus a SciFi Channel low budget flick) has summoned the leviathan, I wondered which was more […]
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For you residents of Rochester, NY, “The Other Gods” will be screening as part of the Little Theatre’s EMERGING FILMMAKERS series. Come out for a night of short films Monday, February 26 at 9 PM. The Little Theatre is at 240 East Ave, Rochester, NY. Find out more at http://www.little-theatre.com/emergingFilmmakers.php I also just learned that […]
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READ MOREAt Animatus this week, I’ll be testing out the workflow for production on a high definition cartoon. We don’t have an HD camera or VCR, so we’ll be working in conjunction with another production house for the final product. The trick is, at some point I’ll want to down-res it for standard television specs, too. […]
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I recently had the pleasure of speaking with David Powers, who hosts a podcast entitled “Podcast of Circadia.” We had a great time discussing writer H.P. Lovecraft and the challenges of adapting his work. The interview is featured in episode nine, now online (in three parts) at http://poc.graveworm.com To listen, visit the POC site, click […]
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Now that I have a new MP3 player, I’ve been using www.podcastready.com for acquiring podcasts. (I’ve never liked the navigation in iTunes.) You can set up flash widgets there to display your subscribed podcasts and even record ones yourself, if you have a mic hooked to your computer. That, plus the Product of Circadia interview […]
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I’m adding a vod section to my website, where I control the content (it won’t be interactive like YouTube). My model is sites like scifi.com/pulse, fear.net, and fangoria.tv. So instead of just calling it Mad Dog Movies VOD, I’d like to give it a clever moniker. Something like scifi’s “pulse.” I like “feed” but I […]
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On a recent animation project (entitled “Clicker Clatter”) I noticed a problem when I output from Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to tape or DVD. As I looked at my video in slow motion, I was getting a “future echo.” Every time an animated character would move, a ghost of their movement would appear a frame […]
