Happy Halloween!

My first Jack-O-Lantern in about 20 years.



Hopefully you'll recognize the image. This is Mell with a knife through his head! Ouch!

I carved this mostly on Saturday while watching Halloween. It took all all of the first movie and most of the second, which we happened to have saved on the DVR.



The rough sketch I wanted to use.


The ink that I push-pinned into the pumpkin and then used a push-pin to dot all the line work.


This is the reverse that I thought looked neat. Happy Halloween everyone!

Friday the 13th!

So, we had a really good day yesterday. The Summer Camp of Death! crew had a little meeting with an important person over at MTV to discuss the show. The pitch went really well and there was a lot of interest expressed. I'm not getting my hopes up too much since I've had a lot of interest in this show before by another network, but it's always good to come away from the first meeting with plans for a second. Besides, I scheduled the meeting on Friday the 13th on purpose! It just makes too good of a story, doesn't it? If MTV picks this thing up, then I can say in interviews that we made our first deal with MTV on Friday the 13th! Too cool! So, I'm busy scrambling to get some materials together for the next phase.

Meanwhile, I built the scratch track audio for the next webtoon today! The good news is that it's the best one yet. The bad news (for me) is that it's about 3 and a half minutes instead of the 2 that I was shooting for. It's a Friday the 13th tribute but unfortunately it will not be finished for quite a while. I was hoping for the end of the month, but with it being a full 1.5 minutes longer than expected, forget it! If anyone is interested in hearing the audio while you're waiting for the finished product, please let me know.

In celebration of my good meeting, I bought the remastered Halloween DVD and of course the original Friday the 13th DVD. I just watched it recently but didn't have a copy of my own and more than that, I wanted my own copy of the cover art which I posted above. What a cool poster! I also bought Shaun of the Dead which I'm looking forward to watching tonight! Have a great weekend folks!

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Doodling at the office:

Above: A marker sketch of Gary with a knife. I've been thinking about doing a series of these, one for each character. This is a study to see what they might look like. I'd like to use some paint for a change. I've submitted the idea to a local gallery and await feedback.

Other news concerning Summer Camp of Death! I got the big N-O from adult swim -- for now. The good news is that other doors seem to be opening right up. I've got a meeting with an exec' at MTV on Friday the 13th, believe it or not. And, I just found out that I know the person in charge of aquiring new content for Fangoria Television!

Plans for the site continue. Friday the 13th and the month of October snuck up on us and it would've been great to have a new webtoon for either of those dates. I've written the new script but it may not ever get worked on. I've got to decide to create either it or the 11 minute pilot. I'm leaning toward the webtoon and if so, I'm shooting for end of the month, but not holding my breath, since that would be record time of just over a month and both the others took four.

Conversion of the character models into Flash is almost complete! The designs are looking better than ever and the next movie, webtoon or pilot will look great!

We have been looking into hiring a musician for an original theme song for the show. With any luck SCOD will have it's own theme music at the top of next year.