If you enjoy my silly animations and cartoons, I can really use your help right now. Please consider supporting your local animation guy in one of the following ways:
- Last year, I made a feature film, Atom Age Vampire. I took the sound from an old, awful 1960 horror film and animated a new film to it. It’s fun! Incredibly, it’s getting into some film festivals, and people seem to be enjoying it.
But you don’t have to wait for some fancy, high-falutin’ film festival to see Atom Age Vampire; you can order it on DVD right now and watch it in the comfort of your own, non-film festival, home. I’ll even sign it and draw something on it, and it’s only $10, including the postage.
Order HERE.
Bill Corbett (Crow and Observer from MST3K) says, “Very funny! In the MST3K tradition.” And John Kovalic (the cartoonist behind Dork Tower) says, “The “B” in Cecil B. DeMille stood for “Bateman.” Who knew?” So it’s got some serious nerd-cred developing. Get in on it now, and tell your friends!
- Also, I’m trying to get my second feature film (Zontar: The Thing From Venus) funded through Max Keiser’s new site, PirateMyFilm. Essentially, PirateMyFilm works like Kickstarter, except it’s just for films. Max Keiser is the genius who invented the Hollywood Stock Exchange, so he knows what he’s doing. And for as little as a $5 pledge now, you’ll get a DVD of the finished movie and a small share of profits. And I’ll probably put you in the credits.
Nearly all the films currently listed on PirateMyFilm are documentaries, so it would be super-cool to get a nerdy animated sci-fi comedy up and running through this site.
Here is the page for Zontar: The Thing From Venus at PMF, which includes a link to a video of a rough scene I put together. If you want to help, you’ll need to sign up for an account. It only takes a minute.
- Also, there’s now a “Donate” button in the sidebar of this blog, making it easy to throw a few dollars my way here and there if you like something you see.
- And if you can’t buy a DVD or pledge money right now, at least tell some of your friends about my animations and cartoons. That would rock.
Thank you so much.
Somehow, I’ve written an entire 50,000-word novel in less than 30 days (actually, I did it in 23 days). How did I do it? It Well, having none of that pesky “paid work” to do this month was a big help, time-wise. The hardest part was developing the habit of sitting and typing every day. After about a week, I’d wake up in the morning looking forward to writing. And for a while, it was easy. But around Day 18 or 19, it became incredibly difficult again, and I crawled over the finish line, gasping for breath. And now, two days later, my brain still feels completely empty–I put everything on the page and now there’s nothing left up there. Clearly, I need to spend Thanksgiving weekend re-filling the well somehow.