The Wannabe Way
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Mark, I've been noting several classic comic books and animated films that have reminded me of you and 'The Wannabes' lately thoughts on what I've see. This isn't to distract you but perhaps to inspire you and suggest there were others who have paved the way and been through similar experienced. There have certainly been many. Here's a fun one from Frank Frazetta: http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/2011/03/fr...-daffy-and.html ...and not quite a pirate but the origin of Popeye reminded me of Flemm's initial quest to sail to sea. I find it fascinating that he originally appeared as only a secondary character in the Thimble Theater comic strip. It sure did…
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I meant to make mention of this on the 1st. That's when I started the thread for The Wannabe Pirates. Who knew I'd spend so much time on it and even though it didn't really go anywhere, I did self-publish a 200+ page graphic novel and several comics and even made a sort of animated commercial for it. I doubt the last storyline will ever be finished, but you can still read all the strips on the website. http://thewannabepirates.com
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Hey everybody! I've had to run a quick Kickstarter in order to get more funds to do the DVDs. I found a deal on them last year, that was going to get me 250 of them for just under $200 and now that I'm getting close to doing it, I've found that it's going to be more like $400! Anyway, I've reached my $200 goal to make up for it and have added a stretch goal of $300. As I write this, I'm $19 away from getting it, but if it reaches $300, everyone who gives $1 a more will get a free PDF of the 32-page Wobbling Dead comic book! So here's a chance to support the project for very little money and still get something cool as a thanks! Just go here.
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Both Greyhawk graphic novels are now available via ComiXology! They are priced significantly cheaper ($2.99 and $4.99) than the print versions and are set up as individual pages, making them easier to read on your tablet or phone. They are 93 and 104 pages respectively, so that's a whole lot of starbuckling fun for very little cash. The second volume does include a new six page epilogue that isn't available online. And the first has the original last page that was left out of the online version. Greyhawk and the Starbucklers, Vol 1: Greyhawk and the Starbucklers of the Caribbean Greyhawk and the Starbucklers, Vol 2: Universe on Fire The Wannabe Pirates…
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Okay, I'm going for it! There's a Fan Days convention here in October. Allowing time for DVDs to be made, that gives me 119 days to create another 15-minute film. And somehow do the web series, too. I've decided to do a parody of the TNG episode, "The Best of Both Worlds". It's probably one of their best-known episodes. It's the two-parter when Picard is captured by the Borg and turned into Locutus. This is going to be a big one, but it should be a lot of fun and appeal to a whole other generation. Pun intended.
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I see today's Google logo is celebrating Star Trek by changing the Google letters to Trek characters. Clicking on the hotspots takes you through a short (but humorous) adventure. It make me think of Stalled Trek and our own famous Mark Largento. https://www.google.com/ (Looked for the link to the permanent logo area but couldn't find it)
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In v. 17, we got a new feature: Retopology. Something like six years later, I finally got around to using it! :-) Here's a quick bit of niftiness. I needed a cartoon brain for the image I'm working on and it seemed a daunting modeling challenge. Seeing how someone else was able to do it with another piece of software, I realized I could do the same in A:M. I started off with a fairly dense sphere model I created with the Primitive wizard and cut it in half and worked it into a reasonable "lobe" shape. I created a new Cho and placed an empty model for the brain and the dense model and set to work. Once in model mode (with snap to surface clicked), I be…
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Just to say that your new signature is greeeaaaat .... Good job....
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A guy who does Star Trek fan films (and I mean a LOT of them) caught me at the right time about doing a poster for one of his movies. I expected it to have Star Trek stuff on it, but no such luck. :-) I wanted to make something that looked decent, but not require too much work. I'm not sure how much I succeeded on either aspect, but I think it came out pretty cool. Since it was an evil-twin scenario, I only had to model one figure and I actually just used the same model and changed the jacket and hat color in the Cho. I ended up doing two poses and liked the heads in the first one and the bodies in the second, so I rendered out just the heads with an alph…
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With the animation for Stalled Trek: The City on the Edge of Foreclosure finally completed (only took two and a half years!), I went back and made a new HD version of Amutt Time for the blu-ray! Going back to a project that's almost a decade old was definitely a challenge! For one thing, it was my first real attempt at doing a film. Although I would eventually develop some organization, the beginnings were a mess! I didn't have production notes, so I had to do a lot of digging to find things. In the first sequences, files were scattered around in different places and there was some of that "final_revised_2b_final_b" kind of naming going on. I wa…
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Sure looks familiar!
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Avast ye, ya' scurvy scoundrels! Today we *all* get to be Wannabe Pirates!
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