Stan, Satan, and the Old Fashioned Gun: Why You're Stoked and You Don't Even Know It.

In this day and age, everybody with a computer thinks they're special. I mean, just look at YouTube for example: I spend 7 months on a cartoon that over the course of 5 months gets just over 100 hits, where somebody can take a dump on an animal and get 2,000,000 in just under 5 min.

With the new modern technology that lets anybody in the world make their own media content and potentially reach millions of people comes the inevitable over saturation of fields that I've been interested my whole life; certainly before there was ever any internet. It almost makes it that much HARDER to get your stuff noticed, because there's an incredibly huge amount of shit to sift through and it's not hard to get lost or stuck in it's murkiness. These days, you have to do something either incredibly ambitious or totally stupid to get noticed. So I'm doing both.

I keep referring, in this space, to the "Stan, Satan, and the Old Fashioned Gun Project." I kept from labeling it anything other than "project" because I wasn't sure if my initial ambitions would still be clearly manifesting themselves 4 months after production started. Guess what: They are.

Thats why I've decided to attempt the impossible: Create the worlds first feature-length (animated) film done in full (except maybe some voice acting and music) by 1 person.

I'm doing this for a few reasons. One of the reasons is I can't tell the story I want to tell in less than an hour (which will probably end up being "feature length" enough for me). There's just too much to go over, and I don't want to make it feel rushed like I did with Lunchbox Duck Does it Right Episode II.

Another reason is the way I'm going about writing it. The entire film, while initially having a basic outline, is being written and created scene-by-scene. This is basically a measure I'm taking to make sure I don't get bored. If I were to do each step at a different time I would get bored and unmotivated. I have 2 or 3 scenes in production at any given time, it's just how I'm choosing to do it. The other reason I'm doing this is for freshness. I find that my best ideas are my initial thoughts and not ones that have had time to marinate over time... epically with a comedy in the vein as this. I want to keep it fresh for no only the audience, but myself.

So, this is a project. With everything I have so far, I's say I'm about 1/6 to 1/7 of the way completed. Not close, but not entirely ridiculous.

I will leave you with a previously un-released clip (unless you check my youtube site) thats been waiting to go to into final production for almost a month now. But here it is, about 95% done.

ooh, by the way... if you want to check out my other shit click HERE

We're going on a Dance ah-choo

Many of those sketches from last post are more than just random images shat out onto paper from my knuckles to your eyes; most of them serve a purpose. I like telling people that I have a fully functional animation studio in my apartment because not only was it expensive, but I use it quite often... that means that a majority of my ideas evolve from sketches and notes. Well, here are some of the work that has specifically been derived from those sketches.

^Some head. Experiment with photoshop techniques

^Another Photoshop test



^ Here's my mockup intro to a (now on hold) pilot show called Beasts of Lore





^Another Beasts of Lore test featuring one of the main characters, Gillard, a half man, half cow... man. Please notice the dirty-ass paper I was using and how terrible it makes everything look. This is a perfect example why I always test, test, TEST!

NEXT POST: Stan, Satan, and the Old Fashioned Gun and why you should be stoked and shitting in your jeans.

-Kev

Run.

^ Just a lazy-ass scan, wow.

^Few sketches and plot balloons. I don't know if "plot balloons" is a real term or not; perhaps I invented something glorious. Anyway, they're super helpful.

The first 6 Minutes in stunning video diary!

The first 6 minutes (and then some) of Stan, Satan, and the Old Fashioned Gun, is 100% animated and edited. There is still a small segment I want to put in between 2 scenes that would better clarify things, but for now, it's just an idea.

So, I'm really stoked on how this all turned out, and so I've taken the liberty of going through the first 6 minutes and taking a few snapshots of how the final product looks.



^it starts off with a rockin, fast-paced opening credits sequence. There are many cuts and effects put in place here. Theres also an underlying story that doesn't have anything to do with anything, but it's basically a copped-up, re-edited version of the original scrapped intro. I like this one better.


^My name happens to be in every single credit.





^ A few more happenings during the opening credits



^Hooray! The title!



^scene change- We meet Officers Frank and Marty, as well as the chief of police, Paul Stuck. The introduction is brief however, as there are better things to focous on.






^Scene change- we see Stan arm wrestling a pig. Before this, I plan to add that short sequence I mentioned earlier. As satan enters, we discover that Stan is involved in Illegal, Underground, Left handed pig arm wrestling. After a moment of arm wrestling, a shotgun goes off. A cat jumps up and yells "FARMER!" as he is mauled by a herd of animals hastily making their way to the exit.






^Satan has made it out of the barn through the commotion. But... "Wheres Stan?". cut to Stan laying down on his back. We see a creepy old man slowly make his way to him... they have an awkward conversation for a moment, before we change scenes.

(oops forgot to include the old man. sorry)


^lengthy scene change includes many pans and zooms throughout the city, to the saxaphone.


^After the scene switch, we come across Frank and Marty again. This scene is (almost) verbatim to their first comic introduction. Much nostalgia.

Well this it folks. There are other scenes that are indeed finished that aren't here, but they take place later on and I'm just not there yet.

So, tell me what you think (I'm pretty sure this is getting posted on my Facebook, as well?) about what you saw. The art direction, the characters, anything. lemme know! comments!