and I mean that in a pretty literal way.

I mean, I have *zero* complaints with Lewaine.  None.  She is awesome.

It was just most everyone else around me that was sucking the life out of me.
I looked up and realized that most of my projects had stalled out, due to an apathy that I couldn’t figure out.

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Here is a sneak preview of my latest side project.

I am launching this character in a week or so as a guest
blogger and host of a retro/horror film podcast on a major horror site!

Thats pretty much how I describe my continual trysts with synchronicity.

So I get on facebook and I “friend” a lady named Bianca Barnett,
a perky horror actress that I found via another “friend”, Debbie Rochon.

Well, long story short, I see where she has a contest to help her find her ideal role.

No rules, just be creative.  Right up my alley!  But oh snap, the contest ends at midnight that day!
Again, right up my alley!

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I am going to be doing alot this year.  Alot.

I can see where I have have been way over-thinking alot of things when it
comes to the micro-cinema scene.  I sat down and started watching what is out there
on the market.  And I realized, well, I realized that I have a whole lot to reconsider.

And that is a good thing…

You ever work on something for so long, toiling and grinding, that you sometimes thing you will never get there?
Well, the time for all that hard work, all the studying, effort and endless nights of learning, learning and learning are finally paying off.

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So with a brief lull before we begin filming The Cthulhu Key, I have been working on an animated project.
It’s no big secret that horror and sci-fi are my favorite genres, so with Cthulhu Key covering the horror, I started outlining
a story for a web series set in the future.

AstroNoir.com is the home for this series, and if you care to check it out, you will see some of my initial character designs
and test animations.  I am working on streamlining the whole 3D pipeline, and considering this is pretty much a one man show
at this point, that is pretty much my focus.

It’s an ensemble cast, set in a future that while not full on dystopian,  is still rather darker than most mainstream sci-fi.
I guess thats the “Noir” in AstroNoir…

Promo art

So I have found a lot of great sites,  forums and businesses that I think have helped me get to the point I can actually make a movie.

I keep up with a few blogs, some updated regularly, others not so much. But one thing they have in common, is that when it comes to digital filmmaking, they are definitely the sites that believe in “teaching a man to fish” so to speak.

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So I realized that I have been so busy the past 18 months or so, that I haven’t had any real *fun* time.

Now don’t get me wrong, working on music videos and horror film projects is a blast, but sometimes I just need to
get away from the computer and unwind.

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I have been working this up the past couple of days, but between being sick and trying to get ready for Christmas, it’s been slow going.

I still need a couple of more photos to finish out the design, then I will begin working it more seriously.
Some of my regular watchers may recognize the shot of Alix I did a while back for a Lovecraft themed project I did for her.

wip

Hard to imagine it’s been 100 posts.
Preproduction on The Cthulhu Key: Legacy is moving along great.
Five of the roles have been cast, and we will hold a casting call
for the rest of the roles sometime in the middle of January.

I know I haven’t been updating as often as I should, but frankly, I have been buried in the writing and re-writing the script.
Lewaine is a great help in bouncing ideas off of, and she is providing alot of great energy in streamlining and amping up the
intensity of the story.

So for now, I will leave you with a couple of photos from the work bench.

a hand copied codex infernium and the Lovecraft tarot

some props and tools