More Stopmotion Madness!

Yeah, it's only 5:55 a.m., but I'm done stopmotioning for the night.  I got a lot done today, of significantly higher quality than yesterday's work; it's all coming back to me.  And I managed to get the camera to give me the right colors today, so that's great too.  

Pictures soon, fo real!  But I think you should know, I took more than 1200 pictures of this stuff this evening, so I'm too tired to upload it!!

-S

Hag Lady Bobo: Search for a Body

It's currently 8:37 a.m., and I have yet to sleep one wink.  Why, you ask?  Well, knowing me as well as you do, you should know that the only thing that can keep me up past 7:00 a.m. is STOP-MOTION!!  I absolutely love the stuff, and once I start, I have some difficulty stopping.  Or stopping-motion, if you will.  What's that you say?  You won't?  Ah well.

Anyway, the stop-motion was for a new project I'm working on, called 'Hag Lady Bobo: Search for a Body', which bridges the narratorial gap between Hag Lady Bobo as seen in the Hero BLOB series and Hag Lady Bobo as seen in the Cloudman comic series.  It's really rather short, and was originally planned as part of the 'Hero BLOB 8: BLOB Uchuu Ocho' movie (which has stalled in development), but I needed to do something short, as I have a very short time before it must be finished.  

The movie is going to be projected on the wall at a launch party for a local art magazine called 'Yellerzine', whose first issue this year features part one of my comic series 'Broken Vessel'.  They wanted something animated to show on the wall, and I happen to have hands to animate with!  Admittedly, it's been rushed so far, and parts of it aren't my best stop-motion work (it's been well over a year since the last time I stop-motioned!), but it's shaping up, and Hag Lady Bobo's soul is terrifying.  I'll tell you all about it in a future post, and then I'll treat you to some exclusive preview photos, which will probably just confuse you.  Ah well, could be worse!  Your nose could be gushing blood!

Hero BLOB Christmas Special 1

Hey, everybody,

   Sorry about the sporadic posting, but good news now!  I've finished the script for 'The Hero BLOB Christmas Special: BLOB's Magical Christmas', a short, Christmas-related thing I've been thinking of writing for three years.  There exists some footage for it in movie form, but Nick and I are too busy with other projects in the winter times to finish it, so the new script is entirely made for radio!!  Hopefully, I'll record it soon and have it ready before the actual Christmas time! 

The play itself revolves around BLOB's quest to find out what the true meaning of Christmas truly is, and it features the most spectacular battle ever: SANTA vs. SATAN.  Who will win?  Find out soon!!!

Hero BLOB IX: Wrath of the Tuna Queen Online!!

Hey, everybody!  Interestingly, I've run into almost every cast member of the hit play, 'Hero BLOB IX: Wrath of the Tuna Queen' in the last two days, including Samuel J. Taunton ( who played doctor Doctor Von Blimpo in the play, and whom you may know as the voice of Vampire Blob in 'Taste the Blood of Vampire Blob!'), Ruth Appleby (Precious Jim, Mayor Stephen Kettle, Mad Flamethrower Person, Lucy the Paramedic Lady from the Streets of Havana), Martha McGill (Tuna Head, Die-Cotyledon), and Kate Roberts (the Red-Head), and, of course, myself, Schedel Luitjen (BLOB, Narrator, Joe Gooblegop, Rick McStanmyer).  So I thought, 'why not put that play on the internet?'  So I am doing that now.  It's in terrible quality, which I'm trying to fix, but for now, here it is in all its grainy quality!

Please note that the beginning of the play footage is from the dress rehearsal night (thus no laughter occurs here), and the rest is from the actual performance!

Here it is, available only on Veoh, because the file size was too big to put it directly on here.  I'm afraid you'll only be able to watch a 5-minute preview unless you become a Veoh member, but that's free, so I'd suggest that.

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v193659857jk8dzAr

If anyone wants to download the full file without Veoh, they can just email me at heroblob@hotmail.com , and I can post a link.

PS the opening titles song is from Tokyuu Shirei Solbrain, and is the property of Toei Corporation; I do not own it, nor did I make it.

Thanks,

  S

APOLOGIES, and NEW PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Hey all, 

  Apologies for the inexcusable lack of posts recently!  I really am going to make it up to you now, by giving you a special sneak-preview of some stuff I'm hoping to get published around town soon!  This is a short, one-page comic strip made to be serialized on a bi-weekly basis!  I've done a few of the pencils so far for a Jack-in-the-box-man comic series, and now I've also done the pencils for the first issue of 'Son of Vampire Blob!'  Yes, you knew it would be coming, you perhaps thought it would be a short film, but no-- here it is as a serialized news strip!  So, without further ado, here it is!!!   Or anyway, here are the pencils... oh, and by the way, read from the bottom frame upward!  Sorry, I can't get them in order!

Update: Vampire Blob Returns

Another update-- I worked on VBR at lunch today, and I have finally gotten to the part where Vampire Blob first meets Doctor Faustus! Now, I just can't wait till I get to Lord Byron's part... featuring the first mention of Augusta in the BLOB continuity! Hooray, more incest!! Look forward to it!

And don't forget- you can email me at heroblob@hotmail.com

-S

Update: Vampire Blob Returns

Dearest readers,
Just updating you on the progress of the newest VB entry, Vampire Blob Returns. I'm still writing it, albeit slowly; I have this job (shock!) and it takes up an awful lot of time. However, I do hope to finish it in the next couple of weeks.

And, even more excitingly, I have confirmed the involvement of Stephen Potts; he will play Doctor Faustus for me!!! Hooray! So here's the confirmed cast list so far:

Vampire Blob: Nicolas Nadeau
Doctor Faustus: Stephen Potts
Lord Byron: Schedel Luitjen

More updates as they come!

-Schedel