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News Update (last updated 11/7/01)
Team up!
This first special issue
features an exciting crossover story with Ninja
High School entitled "Living la Viva Taco." It
features one of the coolest NHS characters ever-
Doggie! (BTW, All Ninja High School
characters and logos are copyright Antarctic
Press 2001!)
Believe it or not but the first
printed edition of Mad Beanz! is set for
distribution! After five years of preparation
and planning, the wait is over! The book will be
unveiled through national distribution June
2002. Why the long wait? Well, Mad
Beanz creator DKN just wanted to make the
best possible book and that takes time! In
addition the last few years were spent carefully
constructing the initial fifteen-issue story
arch and putting the finishing touches on the
first ten issues.
Yes, 2002 will be the year of
the bean! The revamped MadBeanz.com site is
in the works! (Hopefully my next update will say
"The site is complete!") The new site will is
designed to give people more reasons to come
back again and again: weekly news updates,
exclusive online comic books, updates on our
'How to Draw' series and an animated Mad
Beanz! Flash webisode every month!
Yes, you heard right! But I'll repeat
it anyway. Leading up to the release date of
the Mad Beanz comic book this June,
www.MadBeanz.com will be updated with a
new webisode each month. Each episode features
some of the best voice talent in LA. You can
trust me on that because I sat in on like 50
auditions before DKN found the right voice
talent. Anyway, it's going to be much more than
cool! It's going to be kewl!!!
Yes, we will be selling ads in
our book. To be quite honest, raising the
funds for publicity and printing is a bit more
than we can easily bankroll without the support
of advertisers. HOWEVER- advertising in Mad
Beanz! is strictly limited to a few select
businesses that provide important services to
our readers. Potential advertisers will only be
contacted because we, ourselves, enjoy their
products or feel our readers will. The
businesses benefit by expanding into an
exclusive niche market and we benefit by raising
funds to print our book. Ads are very
inexpensive. So if you are interested in having
an advertisement or announcement printed in our
book contact
us. Also if you want
to trade ads let us know. We will send you our
ad kit. And for you readers, trust us- these ads
will not be terribly obtrusive. In fact we
are doing them in a whole new way !!
Saturday Afternoon At the
Movies was a event hosted by Smorgasbord
Productions and the LA Actors
Coalition at the
American Film Institute's Mark Goodson Theater.
The only problem was that we had so many great
short films the event ran a bit long. Invited
guests included members of Slamdance, Sundance,
the Hollywood Short Film Festival and Film
Threat. A great time was had by all- except for
Phil Zlotorynski who, I'm sorry to say,
committed an indecent act. We'll try to win even
him over with our next event. If possible, we
plan to host additional film screenings in the
future.
Comics
- Mad Beanz!
Everybody is hard at work on this comic. DKN is just a total perfectionist when it comes to this book. He won't let go of any of the pages until they are perfect. In fact, he keeps going back to redraw earlier pages. If you're a comic creator who has worked on a book for a number of issues, I'm sure you're familiar with this phenomenon. You might do ten issues of a book. By the time you finish the last book you look back at the first book and realize you need to redraw it. Your style has improved and you just know you can do a better job with it. Anyway, I'm trying to discourage too much of this but hey...
HELP WANTED: We're up to like issue ten with the pencils. Still need INKERS! We are also hoping to recruit an additional penciler and cover artist. Will need colorists soon as well.
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- Samurai Hoe-down Feature Film
The fifth draft on the feature film script is now complete. This script took too long to finish. Doubt its something our production company could ever make due to all the stunts, special FX, etc. I suppose we could turn it into a B movie if we got desperate and make it really cheesy. Hmmm, would Troma be interested? - Mad Beanz! Flash Animation
Currently working on the Flash animation for the first Mad Beanz webisode for www.madbeanz.com. All the storyboards and principal test animation is complete. Most of the voice actors have been chosen. DKN is still searching for a few more key voices so it looks like auditions for voice actors will continue resume next week. Recording sessions will probably take place the end of the month. The only slight snag is that our Flash animator seems a bit tied up with several other projects at the moment. Could probably use some help. ANY FLASH ANIMATORS OUT THERE WANT TO HELP?? - Mad Beanz! Animated TV Pilot
The television pilot episode for the series has long been complete along with all the storyboards. I don't think we'll actually be making the episode though now that we are so busy with the flash animation webisodes. It's on the back burner now. - Animated Trailer
We spent the last month hard at work on a short animated policy trailer for movie theaters. It's going to be our demo piece for clients. It was the first time we put our hardware and software to the test of creating 2-D animation. We went through the entire process- from script to storyboards, to recording voice actors, to composing music, to rough animation, to clean-up animation, to cel painting, to final output. whew! It's a lot of work! But we can do it! And to prove it here is a very short clip: - Other Random Production News
Our very own Daron McFarland is a contestant on Street Smarts. He came into some serious $$! If the episode ever airs be sure to watch for the part where he slams his head into the buzzer. That move gave him one very bloody scar which the make-up artists on the show desperately tried to cover.