Siege on Castle Steve

If you haven't been paying attention, I don't post much. Anyway, the film mentioned below with the broken pic links was completed and turned out to be quite popular. Here it is:

Minecraft Machinima

Working on a 'top secret' Minecraft Machinima, for a client. I had never played before, and had to figure out a lot of stuff in a hurry! It's wacky having to build sets! Some in progress shots:

If you live in Brazil

Our award winner from last year "The Lake" is screening at a Brazillian machinima and electronic arts festival. Too bad I can't make it.
HERE'S THE WEBSITE LINK!

I'm on Page 84

This is Coral. She's one of the two main protagonists in the graphic novel. Yeah, I know, she is reminiscent of a much younger me (if I dressed the same as I do now - back in the 80's pastels were the rage). But like they say - write about what you know.

I don't want to leak out too much of the graphic novel before it's done...but I'll try to post more things over the year for the 0.5 people that are looking. Once the first book is out, the website will be listed on it and hopefully more people will be watching. Which will encourage me to write and post more. And to fix some of the broken pages.

I still don't have a title.

Graphic Novel

A rough couple of panels from my as yet unnamed graphic novel (book one). I'll post more art from the project throughout the year.

Designs

Some character designs for a short comic book project. You'll have to guess the story.

Catching Up

So, Happy 2011! A little late, but Brad and I made this Holiday Card last month, for all our friends and family. He wrote the song and I hastily did a semi-animated time lapse kind of art thing for it. Enjoy!

OK, so there were no posts in 2010

I pretty much abandoned this blog and website in 2010. I finally gazed upon the sadness that was my website, and decided to rev it up again. Maybe I'll even be able to get a few people to pay attention.

The difference is that this year, the focus will be on a graphic novel I'm working on, and any other film-related stuff I happen to be involved with, but really, not so much about machinima. It was a really fun period of my life, doing the machinima thing, but as my boyfriend rightfully pointed out - it ain't no moneymaker, and I really have to concentrate on products that I own 100% of. I might throw together a quick one now and then, but it's going to be a back burner thing for sure at this point.

Now having said all that, here's a machinima me and Ben and the gang made last November for the 48 hour film challenge. We won the machinima division, so our film is going to the finals in March of this year. Here it is!

The Dumb Bob Xmas Special

Save the Murlocs!

A film I made for J!NX, based on their script. :) Here's the 'official site'.

Our 48 Hour Film Project

Yup, we entered again this year and nope, we didn't make the deadline...
AGAIN...because we were too optimistic about the script length and we underestimated how much time the film would take to render. Hopefully we have learned our frigging lesson!

Dumb Bob Halloween Show!

You'd think the boys would get tired of making these. But noooo, they are very dedicated to their series, LOL! Once again they wrote and directed everything. I just 'enhanced' their vision. Cole did all the music himself in this episode. Ryan did the little animation at the end.

Dumb Bob 2

Dumb Bob!

I helped my boyfriend's kids (9 and 10) with a film they wrote and directed themselves. They wrote all the dialogue and the lyrics for the music (we helped play a few of the instruments but Cole played guitar), directed their little sister and father as they recorded the voices of the characters, created the prop smashed car out of clay and paint, and shot the whole thing on my HD camera. I was the editor (only cause Premiere and After Effects are rather complicated) but they told me what shots to cut and what sound effects to use, etc. It turned out to be very funny! They were really proud of it! Perhaps there will be an episode 2? :D

Appearing at Comicon....

This Friday you can catch me pretending that I know what I am talking about on two back to back panels at the World Famous San Diego Comic-Con.

The first panel is called "State of the Animation Industry" and starts at 2:30 in room 10. I'll be talking about random current happenings in animation.

The second panel is called "Beyond the Gaming Medium" and starts at 3:30 in room 30AB. I'll be talking about my machinima films.

If you want to catch me for a question, it's probably best to do so after the second panel as I'll be racing in-between!

Kyle + Rosemary

I decided to put this up. It's been over 2 years since it was completed and has already publicly aired on Nickelodeon. :D Sorry for the watermark, it's the only copy I have.

Where the heck am I???

Where am I! Why haven't I made any more machinima!??

Busy, busy, busy. Dunno if anyone is still following this update page....but I am really busy these days. Went back to Disney, my old 'alma mater'...playing in an active 80's cover band (I'll post future gigs later)...got a nice new fella in my life (if I am being honest, that's the real reason I'm 'busy') Falling in love has this weird effect on my extracurricular projects...it makes me not care about doing any of them! ;)

BUT

I am working on one last WoW machinima. It's longer than usual and a little ambitious. I am trying to get it done for Blizzcon but if I don't (which is very possible) it may end up being a nice holiday present for all my viewers instead around December. A sort of swan song, if you will. I really think my life is changing now and I am leaving these wonderful worlds behind....I have already stopped playing WoW. WoW has been tons of fun and the folks at Blizzard have been good to me, but it feels like it is getting to be that time....time to move on....not that I won't pop in nostalgically once in a while! :D

City of Heroes ad #3

Ah yes, the last of the exciting City of Heroes/Villains ad trilogy! As always, please go to the main site to watch in high quality.

Remember This?

So, my short "Kyle+Rosemary" that I finished two years ago, is FINALLY set to air this weekend on the Random Cartoons show, January 17, Saturday 10:30am PST. This will be, unfortunately, on the NickToons cable channel. NOT the main Nickelodeon channel, NickToons. If you have cable, keep scrolling up...up....maybe into the 400's....oh, there it is. (Actually it turns out to be channel 108 on Charter in Los Angeles) A bit disappointing that they waited so long to air these and then stick them on their less known cable channel, but at least it's finally an 'ending' to this project.

City of Heroes ad #2

Once again, go to the youtube page and click 'watch in HD' for a better experience.