Let's Embark On a Journey

WILD CARD PILOT

Now that I finally got off my slacker ass and finished the few frames left on that animal cartoon, I can begin my Magnum Opus of sorts, (at least I'm hoping it will end up that way.)

Wild Card is the inner city story of inner turmoil, societal dissolution, and long lost love. The pilot will be very "theatrical" in a sense. I'm not going for all out COMEDY let's say, but it will be some of my best. I plan to go all out with this one. So it may take several months or it may come together swimmingly, you'll just have to wait and see.

GIANT SNAIL DEBUT ALBUM




















Since my live band The Midnight Lounge Act broke up a little over a month ago I've been really concentrating on my solo music. You may have noticed (actually you probably didn't) that I've uploaded 3 brand new original songs to the Giant Snail myspace. Being out of the band environment after being in one for nearly an entire year really makes you inspired to pursue your own vision; something all you. So while I'm still reforming a new band with my buddy and drummer Keith Dast I still plan on cracking down on this project.

I don't know if Tommy will be a part of the new Giant Snail projects because we're both always so busy, but I'm definitely sure the songs he's contributed he would gladly want put on the album. So expect to see some of the best avant-garde pop music available to you the precious consumer VERY SOON!

...That means you WILL buy the album.

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MUSIC RELATED.

I've become really inspired to record an album like Zwan's debut CD if any of you have heard it. I have alot of song ideas right now just gestating in my head, so if I can't get Tommy to do digital drums/bass for me would anyone be willing?

I'm not sure if I'd release this under Giant Snail or not. The album I have in mind is more of a sunny pop-rock melody type deal; not a hap-hazard experimental indian trip.

Get at me if anyone is interested.

-Andrew K.

UPDATE FOR THE SAKE OF UPDATING.

WORLD OF WORK...CRAFT. WOMBAT.

Well things are going at a fairly steady pace in terms of work. All I Need is right where it needs to be for the public, but I shall continue working on this until completion; Superdave is being edited by The Screaming Mimes right now I guess; MGR 11 is about to go back into production; Michelle & Feo's mini pilot may just be out for the beginning of the Summer once I blow the dust off of that one; and Wild Card is currently being written.

UNRELATED

I'm really at a conflicted point right now in terms of where my musical interests stand. I love ska with a passion still, but I'm now starting to feel like maybe some bands should call it quits after a while. I still love Reel Big Fish but their most recent album was a massive letdown. That album really made the outlook of the ska genre bleak for me. Mainly because they thought it would bring upon the 4th wave of ska in the mainstream. If THAT is what the 4th wave is going to be framed upon then I may just stop listening to all new ska that comes out period.

I AM however anticipating the new releases from Less Than Jake and Rancid. But, with how nearly every release from a ska band now in it's late seniority has been a bike-ride through Mediocrity Park located in scenic Vanilla, BLAND I don't hold much hope for what their new albums have to offer.

I think that many of the senior ska bands these days try to please FAR TOO MUCH. I understand without fans they wouldn't be where they are at all, but that's just it: They're fans. Fans will check out anything you put out, and chances are they will pay for it. So why spend time (3 days; ala Monkeys) on producing something you haven't sunk your heart and time into? I guess my problem with alot of musicians these days, (not just ska, other genres as well) is that they tend to focus more on shoving music down peoples throats as quickly as they can. Whatever happened to quality over quantity? Ah whatever. This is just a stupid rant. Don't listen to me.

I'll keep you posted

- Andrew K.

IDEAS OUT THE WAHOO.

As of right now, since I'm SORT OF in limbo between serious work and my own projects, this blog will probably be much more updated.

As of right now I'm doing some small commission art for a few people, planning the Wild Card pilot, writing material for my band The Midnight Lounge Act, and trying to figure out where Giant Snail is headed.

You will probably be seeing a finished MGR 11 sometime soon if I remain free like this. And you'll definitely see the mini Michelle & Feo pilot, even if I feel like it has become incredibly dated.

Keep an eye out.

Later.

-Andrew K.

CHANGE OF PLANS.

Instead of creating a full cartoon for my next project, and not just because I got no reels from anyone, I will be animating an entry for another contest. I will not name it, being elusive makes me seem cooler. THAT'S RIGHT. I WANT YOU TO THINK I'M COOL.

Storyboards should be up tomorrow.

-Andrew K.

Female Voice Actresses

Continuing on the previous post about the After-school Special Short, I am going to need some reels from female voice actresses to play the role of the little sister. I'm strapped for cash at the moment, so if you're looking for a paid venue keep looking. I need free voice actresses!


Please email your reels to me at mrinsomnia@gmail.com


I need to begin production ASAP!

-Andrew K.

Revival

I'm bringing the blog back. The revamp is still in progress, but while I do that, here's some concept work to fill in this hollow post a bit.

That is all for now.

-Andrew K.

The Lowdown.

I'm not sure how much longer My GOD, Robots! will be on hold but it will probably be for a few more months. Right now I have to focus on making tiny alterations to the SheBeats video before the end of the month. Then I am going to partake in a Halloween contest for Newgrounds, so that will probably take all October. And THEN after that I am taking another commission for a band called the Screaming Mimes. So yeah, I NEED MONEY. TO BUY THINGS. So personal shit is on hold for a bit, but new stuff is still coming out from me so put away your serrated edges and hide your carving arm for now.

Late.

Screens.

From my current commission. Enjoy.

SUMMER IS HERE.

GENERAL
The first blog post of the summer! And let me tell you (I hope) I have a lot in store for you this year! I am finally nearing completion on my classified commission, so I will FINALLY be able to work on my own cartoons again on a regular basis!

MY GOD, ROBOTS!
I'm very excited to pump MGR Season 2 out as soon as possible. At the moment episode 11 is in animation, but on hiatus until the completion of my commission (WHICH IS VERY VERY SOON.) I should probably write the rest of the seasons scripts when I have time. But that's something you all can look forward to! MGR Season 2 will be my greatest effort yet out of anything I've done, so I hope it all pans out okay.

MICHELLE & FEO
This show is...well, I'm not sure. It IS going to happen, I promise you that. I'm just not sure when I'll have time for it. Perhaps the show may be put on hold and resume when I'm done with MGR as a series all together, or perhaps I will find some magical bucket of spare time to do this project. Just know I still have interest in it and I have NOT given up on it yet.

MUSIC VIDEOS
I'm not sure which ones I will do this year, there are alot I have ideas for spinning in my head, but rest assured there will be some kick ass ones. Expect one or two from the new RBF album.

There's alot more to talk about I'm sure, but its early, so this blog is done.

Stay tuned.

-Andrew K.

BACK TO WORK

So I'm finally up and running. Here's the lowdown on what's currently in production.

MY GOD, ROBOTS! Season premiere, written, voice acted, animation in pre-production.

MICHELLE & FEO Animation to be done over due to unsatisfactory results.

CLASSIFIED NETWORK COMMISSION Currently animating, majority of my attention.

CLASSIFIED NETWORK COMMISSION 2 Did test animations for, status up in the air.

IMPRESSION THAT I GET VIDEO In animation.

UNTITLED COLLABORATION PROJECT An action packed gore-fest, to be a joint effort between Jordan Dubois and myself.

89 VISION Music video collaboration between Tommy LM and myself.

THE POCKETEERS Music video and other artwork.

So as you can see by this list, I am fucking swamped. But I'm just happy to be working again. I will be pushing myself harder than I ever have to make sure I get through all of this.

Later.

Sneek Peek of New Stuff From The Robo-Show!

I said I would post some concept artwork or early design drawings and here is a page of conceptual artwork from My GOD, Robots! episode 11: "Number 11, With Jokes, and a Soda". Enjoy.

Hoping For The Mad Stacks

Here's something secret from a secret something you'll see sometime around December 20th...secret.

Oh Lookie-Loo, The Douche Actually Updated.

Well not really anything to report right now. At least not on my independent projects, which kind of defeats the purpose of this post, but I just figured the blog needed to be updated. Even if there's really nothing new to report. Anyways here is a screenshot from a music video that I've been working on here and there, on and off. The video is to the song Impression That I Get by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. This video will be a little more personal and less cartoony weird than my usual works. The song holds a place in my heart from the good ol' days of the 90s, so I wanted to make the video a little more "autobiographical" to project a little notion of how things were back then.

MICHELLE & FEO
Still have not worked on the episode since I last did. But I think I will be trying to do small parts every now and then when I start to get sick of animating the commission as a fresh breath, if you will. Hopefully projects like the commission will not come up as frequently, so that the show can stay on a fairly stable production schedule. But for now, nothing to report regarding production progress.

MY GOD, ROBOTS!
Nothing going on at the moment with the show right now. I have done a little bit of concept art for the second season, but I don't want to ruin anything so I'm debating on whether or not to post stills. However, during November I will try to start writing a couple scripts so that Brian and I can get cracking on how things will flow in the new method I'm trying to kickstart with this new season

Keep you updated
Out.
~Andrew K.

Still Alive

Hey folks, sorry for the lack of updates on this blog. I've just got ALOT of things things to juggle in the air at the moment. Currently I have 7 or so projects going at the same time. I've got Michelle & Feo 1, My GOD, Robots! Season 2, the Ji Spott project, Mighty Mighty Bosstones video, 2 art commissions, and the 2 network pitches for Smorgasbord Studios. And on top of all of that I have to keep my academics a top priority. So yeah, alot of stressful work in my schedule and not alot of time to keep my blogs and art pages up to date.

Michelle & Feo Stuff
Anyways stressful life aside, things are going fairly...slow with Michelle & Feo. As you can probably understand since Michelle & Feo and my other independent cartoons are done for free and on my own time, they become less important when something big comes along like the studio pitches and musician artwork projects. I'm still going to be working away at it, but I probably won't be as consistently as I would if I didn't have all this major deals going on. Here's a screenshot, as you can see it's still a work in progress shot, Grundman's arm hasn't been drawn yet. And I'm still drawing the poses for him at the moment. Feo's animation for this scene is all finished thankfully.

My GOD, Robots! Season 2
At the moment not alot is going on with My GOD, Robots! . The most recent thing I could tell you is that I finished writing the "TBD" outlines that were not in the list, so right now the entire second season has all of its plots planned out. Right now I'm just a little worried about how music is going to work out for this season. It had always been a challenge to get original music on time for this show, but now that both Matt and I are getting into bigger things I think that music might become even more difficult to attain. With Michelle & Feo I don't have the problem of getting an original score every episode because I'm using band music. But maybe I'm worrying too much and music will all pan out with few hiccups. I guess I'll just have to play it by ear until the situation arises. Anyways for the second season the "over-critical" Brian Bear will be a punch-up script writer. I've always been a little concerned about the comedy aspect of my cartoons, I am (in my opinion) a really funny guy in real life, it's just when it comes to actually writing it down I'm a little tapped for humor. Brian is a guy who understands the mechanics of a good script. If you're worried about the show becoming too joke oriented, don't. Brian and I have both agreed that to support good jokes you need strong story and character interaction. He will also be writing for Michelle & Feo too, so get ready for a bumper car full of belly laughs when we begin writing scripts together.

I'll try to keep you more updated
Out.
Andrew K.

Everybody Loves Andrew

I haven't done a whole lot on Michelle & Feo this week, mainly because I am busy doing a few test animations for my "job" on a new Smorgasbord Studios pitch. So at last I'm finally getting paid to animate. But I only really have to do a few short tests so I can probably get some work done on Michelle & Feo this week. I hope to get at least this first episode done before I have to go back in school, but it isn't looking very likely with all these projects building up and my physical limitations, I can only sit in front of a screen for so long...Can you blame me? It's hot. And I get sweaty. Here's another screenshot, yo.

MGR Season 2:
I hope to write the script for 11, record the lines, and get Alex's lines before I am back in the classroom as well. That seems probable seeing as I can write scripts fairly quickly and MGR 11 is the standard episode length. It all depends if I can get the free time to record my lines. In the next few weeks I may or may not post outlines of episodes and rough artwork for season 2. Keep in mind that I may NOT, I want the series to be anticipated but I don't want viewers to get too much of a taste of the goodies to come because then they might not enjoy the episodes as much.

Keeping you updated since 1748, Andrew Kauervane is out.

Yeah, what a lazy piece of crap.

Well...this screenshot isn't particularly interesting. Just because I had to pick a frame that was completely colored. The good news is that this scene is finished, it just has to be colored. The bad news is...there's still alot of the episode left. And I have just not been working, I've been staying over at several of my friends places since Wednesday, so obviously I have barely been working. But it's alright. All this month I will make it my main priority to finish this episode as quickly as possible. So I guess I'll have to disable my internet or something, whatever I can to get myself to just work.

After M&F1 I don't think I will immediately start working on MGR episode 11. I want to do a video to "Evaluation Day" by The Planet Smashers and send it to them. I think I might get some sort of cash coming my way if I do stuff for them, since currently I may be doing a T-shirt design for them. So that might be cool. More news to come soon, later.

I don't post enoooough, I post too muuuch!

M&FS101 is coming along fairly nicely, I just wish I had a higher work-ethic. The amount of progress is adequate for how long I've been working on it, about 2 or 3 weeks approximately, and there's exactly 1 minute of animation done out of a 4 minute episode (I assume it will be 4 minutes. I don't do table reads so length is usually determined by script length or just wingin' it.) I expect this to be done pretty soon, at least before my summer is over. I haven't really gotten too much work done in the past 4 days, mainly because of my birthday and also I'm a huge slacker. But I hope to get this out soon and hopefully start MGR 11 before I go back to school.

As for episodes MGR 5 & MGR 6...eh...I'm kind of sitting on them at the moment. I mean, I've gotten the Feats of Strength tracks I needed (Kudos to Ed Atlin), I have just been sitting on these episodes for about a year almost but, guh. I just don't think they're very good, and I'm afraid the idiots who haven't been brought up to speed that MGR is a show that gets better progressively each episode will critique it way too harshly. Maybe I'll just disable to option to critique them when I do EVENTUALLY put these eyesores online.

Here is a screenshot just a couple seconds from the first 60 seconds of M&FS101. I love this face.

Presenting Production Progress!

Here's some screenshots from Michelle & Feo episode 1. I don't even know why I'm posting screencaps this early, there's barely any footage done at all. I mean I just started, but I suppose some people might want to see the basic look of the show compared to My GOD, Robots! Enjoy.

My GOD, Robots! Season 2 List

Well, for the few of you that thought My GOD, Robots! was over at episode 10...prepare to have your socks blown off at g-force speeds at the news...That there will in fact, be a second season of My GOD, Robots! Unfortunately it is the, last season. But I promise I will make this show go out with a bang, here's the episode list of Season 2 so far. I wont post spoilers just yet or ever, because that could ruin the anticipation:

11. "Number 11, With Jokes, and a Soda"
12. "The Toaster That Loved...Something Stupid"
13. "The Female Episode About Girl Nonsense"
14. "Behind The Scenes of My GOD, Robots!"
15. "Prepare to Be Niced Through The Face"
16. "Lost In House" Part 1 of 3
17. "The Fist of Incomprehensible Compulsiveness" Part 2 of 3
18. "Return to Normalcy Island" Part 3 of 3
19. "Pirate Encounters of The Whiny Kind"
20. "One-Time Villians, Assemble!"
21. [TBD]
22. [TBD]
23. "Try To Cope"
24. "Change"
25. "Goodbye to Robots"

Some of these episodes I am super anxious to do, and this long list should keep me busy for awhile. So I think music videos will have to wait for awhile. But hey, that's My GOD, Robots! and Michelle & Feo to whet your pallette. Enjoy the future episodes of both series.