Making actors is easier than working with them

A little film I made for a class I took at UCLA and my first time working with puppets.

Pinheads from Atomic Monster Labs on Vimeo.

I want in on some of this web comic action!

It's a new year and I decided to take a crack at this funny business everyone seems to be enjoying so much on the iNET. Why should they get all the sports cars and dental care? I have needs too, and it's not like I'm getting younger... believe me I keep checking. Gary Larson has been an inspiration to me so I decided to keep things to one panel. Trying to be realistic about my workload, I'll  try to update every Monday for now.  If I get faster at this, and hopefully funnier, then I'll try to update more often.  I'm a bad judge of what's actually funny to others according to the police, so please forgive me if a few of these make you physically sick and turn off of comics all together.  I really only have a small handful of ideas so this could be an interesting exercise in humiliation and failure. It may be because it's late, but  the spellbots at Blogger just informed me I misspelled failure in the last sentence. And with that I will begin...

We don't like surprises anymore... apparently

I absolutely love a good trailer, especially the ones that don't show the monster or give away any vital bits of info but still manage to make the wait for the film almost unbearable. But for some reason we are being presented with more and more of the film. This isn't really a new event in marketing, but it is a trend that has been slowly ruining movies for me over the years. I don't want to pick on specific trailers because there are simply too many offenders. I did recently see District 9 and maybe it's just me but when I see a money shot in a trailer I'm usually anticipating it when the film starts. The problem with this is you can easily paste together the story line from the shots you know have yet to be shown. i.e. in District 9 you know that by a certain point some one is in the mech stopping a missile. And at that point you can figure out who and why and sadly it's usually long before the scene takes place. Granted if the film manages to completely occupy my mind into not working the way it should, then I'm not thinking of anything other than "holy shit this is so fun". Unfortunately most films aren't this engaging and the scenes from a trailer manage to fill in the puzzle for me long before I have a chance to lose myself.
This was a fun little photoshop for me and sadly the only clip option that I made up is the top one, the rest I got from existing films... even trailer 4.

it came from the kitchen

 

I thought this up while buttering my bagel (not a euphemism but thanks for the sentiment). I was a big X-Files fan and the latest movie had just been announced to be in the writing stages on the webs... without a title. How's that for  premonition Agent Scully? I also knew it would most likely suck based on the story and have to date still not seen it.