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Happy Halloween Minions!
It’s Halloween folks and you know what that means! It’s time to bring in La Cosa Nosferatu, the Dark one, Geo Brawn IV creator of the sexy horror comic series “The Untold Chronicles!”
Geo Brawn IV
If you are into Horror comics and Pin up Girls, then you gotta get your hands on Geo’s books. They are awesome! Film Director Guillermo Del Toro gave them the big thumbs up people!
click the pic to get to Geo's stuff!
My good friend Geo, besides being an extremely talented creator, knows his Horror FU! We have a lot of fun on today’s podcast!
Video Slideshow of Geo’s Paintings with artist commentary.
The Mad Monster Party!
Original Movie Poster by Frank Frazetta.
One of my favorite animated features of all time! Mad Monster Party was made by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, the same people that brought us the Christmas classics Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. This Rankin Bass’ 1967 stop motion animated feature is pure 1960′s Campy Horror Awesomeness! A killer cartoon featuring all of the classic movie monsters partying down at Dr. Baron Von Frankenstein’s pad in puppet form!
Promo One Sheet by Frank Frazetta! I Know!!!!!
I’m talking Dracula, The invisible man, The Mummy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyll and Hyde, The Wolf-man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, King Kong, Frankenstein’s Creature, The Bride, and an assorted mess of friggin’ zombies and skeletons! It gets better! The hysterical screenplay was written by the great Harvey Kurtzman and the characters were designed by the legendary Mad Artist Jack Davis!
Jack Davis Character Designs!
OMG!
Did I mention Boris Karloff is the voice of the Dr. Baron Von Frankenstein and Phyllis Diller plays the Bride of the Creature?
If this doesn’t sound wacky enough, Boris Karloff sings in this movie! I shit you not!
Dr. Baron Von Frankenstein and the lovely Franchesca. What a hottie! I mean the girl.
Bruce Timm Sketch of Franchesca and Dracula. Awesome with Awesome sauce amigos! WOW!
SWEEEEET!
Franchesca…..The first love of many geeks.
That is one sexy stop motion puppet!
Another Franchesca by Bruce Timm which I believe he referenced from the frame above. Bruce Timm can do know wrong.
The Japanese studio that animated this film did a bang up job! They called the stop motion puppet animation technique they were pioneering “Animagic” Is that cool or what? I’m geeking out man!
This little gem paved the way for films like Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare before Christmas” and the “Corpse Bride!”
The film has recently been released on DVD and I highly recommend it!
click the pic to go to Amazon.com to buy this DVD!
drawing by Don Duga the artist who storyboarded the film.
Scene Set up by Don Duga
Get a load of the trailer!
click to see The Opening Sequence
The Making of…..
H.H. Holmes Fiend and Serial Killer from Victorian Times.
The last segment of the podcast Geo and I got to talking about REAL monsters as opposed to fictional ones. I recently found out about H.H. Holmes. America’s First serial killer. During the Great Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 this sick twisted psycho used his custom built Murder Castle to kill an alleged 200 people!
This guy made Jack the Ripper look like a Pussy.
“I was born with the devil in me, I couldn’t help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than a poet can help the inspiration to sing. And I was born with the Evil One standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world. He has been with me ever since.”
H.H. Holmes
Happy Halloween!
R.
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Krishna M. Sadasivam Professional Illustrator. Cartoonist. Design Ninja.
Krishna by Krishna
Krishna earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. It was there, he discovered he was a computer geek.
After several years in the engineering world Krishna bailed to follow his life-long dream of going back to school for a formal education in art. He earned an M.F.A. in Animation from the Savannah College of Art & Design.
Currently, Krishna serves as a full-time instructor within the Media Arts and Animation department at the Art Institute of Tampa. When he’s not busy teaching, he spends a considerable amount of time as a professional cartoonist / illustrator. When he’s not creating comics, Krishna spends much of his time with his wife Aarti and daughter Sonia. His other hobbies include reading comics, cycling, Macintosh computing and playing guitar. Krishna wants to let the world know that he is an avid Power Man & Iron Fist fan.
Krishna, his wife AaRti, and daughter Sonia.
Krishna’s web comic PC Weenies has appeared online since October 1998 and is geared towards technology enthusiasts, engineers, systems administrators / IT, and software developers.
It’s smart, funny, and very well drawn!
On today’s show Krishna shares the origins of PC Weenies as well as some of his techniques with us. Krishna also gave us some solid tech advice to all artists. Specifically, he shared the importance of working with dual monitors! Check out his post on dual monitors.
We also talked about teaching art and animation and how much inspiration we as instructors get from our students! Seriously!
Krishna is an extremely talented and creative artist. He works hard at his desk and it shows. Plus he’s a cool cat man! I had a killer time chatting it up with him!
Krishna’s other web comic Uncubed
30 characters in 30 days
Krishna mentioned the 30 characters in 30 days challenge which I think I might just do.
The Challenge: Create 30 new characters in 30 days- one for every day of the month of November.
Why: Because the world needs new characters.
When: Starting November 1st, 2011.
Where: 30Characters.com.
How to Register: click the banner
ANIMATION ALLEY
The Animation Alley Show last weekend was a hit! My friend Jim Lujan spearheaded the event where a bunch of us crazy INDIE ANIMATORS showed our cartoons on a brick wall in the ALLEY behind the Casita Del Pueblo Gallery.
Here is a short mini documentary Jim Lujan put together.
My Latest Animated Short.
Here’s the latest chapter in the Citizen Sanchez© Universe. Check out my animated short The Vato Vlog which I premiered at Animation Alley.
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