Happy Birthday! Again!

It is almost the New Year... what does that mean? A new script! Currently the script is at 13 pages and will be mass released come the new year. So everyone check your mail for a wonderful New Year's surprise. Anyways... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Hope everyone is having a good break.


:) Adriana

Screen Novelties (click photo)

Another try

J did this one. Looks good. enjoy:






I hope everyone has a great holiday!!!

Love,
Adriana

Today...

is the day before the ROUGH CUT is due. Oh dear.

Greetings from my frozen feet

So I just got back from Kerr with this:



So me and J green screened and did this in After Effects... I don't know the program very well but I am going to learn it. Hopefully the reall thing will read better and have better... more natural movements.

P.S. I should have worn socks.

Yes.

hey guys. we are coming to a close of development!
what have we learned?

More storyboards...

This is the current Animatic as of Dec 1, 2006. Enjoy.

The Voices!

We have officially recorded all the voices! We are very happy with the results. Our next step is to get the animatic , sets, and characters all done so we can start animating.

The animatic will help us get an idea of what the film is going to be like and it also allows people to give us suggestions/comments on the story. So far we have done an animatic of the first section of the film, the "real" jungle scenes.


I also wish goodluck to everyone in 101A... write those papers!

-Adriana

And now for a picture of the J recording for Cuff:

in the jelly belly

ya i like that.
so we are done designing the "real" jungle. whats next?
how about a jelly fish ride?

anyways here is a new simon drawing for your face, please be happy.

-j

More Animation Test for Your Face

Here is the lastest chunk put together by our very own Annie. Also I'd like to thank everyone who helped out this weekend while I was in Vegas... I was very happy with the work. Thank you all!

Simon Estrada.

If you dont know already, Simon Estrada is our lead designer, check out his idea of the ice cavern.

sweet.

game genie by AL

some new mofo pix.

check these out, very entertaining no???

Myspace?

http://www.myspace.com/129978083


Add us!

hurrah.

check out Max and Eric

arts alive

Yes! We are into the arts and crafts stage of production.

our artists are getting paint in their hair now!
We had been experiencing some turbulence in getting the actual art stlye of our film going, but after some refreshing delegation i "think" we're on track and moving at a steady pace.

besides that we are still trying to make our characters

ironically, weve had character designs this entire time, and they will prolly be the last to be made. sigh.

reeses pieces

Put this on your site?

It is interesting what you can do with technology. I can send this to your phone and it could be your background... crzy.

Old Storyboards

MAx is the Cloud

The Scale

Hey everyone. I have posted the scale that I found satisfying. The rack is where the shelf is placed (the numbers along the sides). Oh and sorry the dark photos but they still work for size.


THE CAMERA IS ON LEVEL "E"


Backgrounds and characters.







































Framing only, maybe object/face close-ups.





Our little alligator friend is approximately 6 inches. Which is a good size.

Also auditions are this weekend and we finally get Mackenzie!

Also thanks to everyone who helped out Thursday night:

the Titan Bling Bling

Well, this is it. We are offically rollin rollin rollin rollin.

Congrats to everyone who got in and thanks to everyone else for pitching!

so whats next dare i ask?
well, we need people, lots of creative people, this is a film for artists.
Melies, Disney, Harryhausen, Svankmajer, Burton, Gondry. artists who got their hands on film and showed the world something it could only see in dreams. Ah yes. Anyways these are just some of the heroes of the Secret Disease. Hopefully we can follow in their footsteps.

j.

sonuva pitch!!!

so we finally got the pitch over with...YES!
overall i was pretty bored out of my mind, but there were some good ones and some really bad ones.

well we were lucky to have been told how great ours was despite the fact that i felt like i didnt get the points accross. adriana did i think, its tough when youre up there all nervous and brain is scrambled. uugh.

well we had fun, met some artists and look forward to the final results.

ok. thats all. for now.

OMG

So the screenplay is now in the hands of Laura Palmer, a very talented writer, she has given us her heart and soul and it is mighty tasty. Besides that we are freaking out like obese children in tight diapers about our pitch which is not only 2 days away. As of yet we have no commited artists or animators which is ok, i mean we are going up against 2 or more other animation proposals, ours is a bit more complicated than theirs i think....hence the freaking out. But hey, i think we;re capable of it.
go to the pitches please. please.

love always. J.

Budget Sound.

well, now that finals are over we are going to work on the script again.


its looking pretty fun fun fun.

Also it is time to Budget. This is not going to be very fun, i hate economics.

Also it is time to Conceptualize. I am doing preliminary concepts and then probably getting an Art/Animation Supervisor/Director to keep the ball rollin.

Podjte Pane Baby. Podjte Pane.

"welcome to the rock!"

Goleta, CA- Sir Sean Connery has just signed on to his first animation role (playing himself) ever starring in a new secret disease production. Connery will star as himself in the psychedelic/surreal adventure tentativley titled "The Titan Sting Project" Producer J. Salvador was delighted with Sir Connery's enthusiasm. "Dude, i just asked him if he would like to play a tripped out version of himself on safari and he said why not? He said his middle name was 'tripped out', though i highly doubt thats the case."
Secret Disease is currently looking for artists and film technicians for the production which is hoping to be part of the UCSB Film Departments 106 production class. Adriana Blancarte has agreed to write and Direct the tripped out short.


p.s. you don't actually believe he is do you?

HEY LETS MAKE A MOVIE!

Attention Artist!

Interested in having your art featured in a film that will be viewed by hundreds of people and possibly make the rounds in the film festival circuit?

We are currently looking for artists interested in working on our Film Studies 106 production. We want this project to be an artistic collaboration and we are open to seeing what people have to offer. You may be enroll in the class and receive 4 units a quarter or just help out for fun.

The story follows a young girl named Mackenzie and her grandfather Sir Connery who are on a conquest to capture the Titan Bee which happens to have a hallucinogenic sting. Most of the story take place in the strange world of Mackenzie's hallucinogenic imagination. Which allows for an extreme amount of creative freedom.

We are looking for character designers, animators, and set designers.

If you would like more information please attend the pitch on Friday the 29th, at 12pm in the Flying A room in the UCEN, or email me.


Adriana Blancarte, Director
rzeznik_8@yahoo.com

get the concept art going goddammit

so although it is finals week, i just can;t help myself from starting to see how this thing is supposed to look. well i had one quick concept i "painted".
kinda quick, but it looks cool.

Gay Sewing Party

So we need to do some material tests before we get to the animation tests, and i have decided that everything will be stuffed cloth and felt. i dont believe i have ever seen anything like it, so i'm going to find out why it hasnt been done. I think it will look amazing, and think of the merchadising opportunities! Anyways, we're gunna need some skilled seamstressers.

anyways, check out the work of Anna Chambers http://www.annachambers.com/annaplush.html this is what i'm going for, only its not just the characters, but the entire WORLD!!!

j.

The First Animatic Test

well, i'm starting to mess around with animatics for our project, i'm not sure whether or not i want to use after fx or flash, but anyways here is a screenshot of the first try at this method since blogger won't let me use flash.

she drops out of the tree and waves, kinda cool, but pretty effin time consuming.

btw: thats a borrowed backgound but is similar to look we're going for. bitches.

we need a producer

Hey kids, we are looking for a producer for our next project.

let us know if you are interested. jerk.

The Stuff of Nightmares

LORE


The Project Lore was our first attempt at film making with actual film. The film originally started as a live action basketball game with a Battle Royale twist, but after our shooting schedule got rained out .... it was followed by a series of failed heroin overdoses that resulted in this:



Although the film did not turn out exactly like we had foreseen.. it turned into something. The process itself helped us learn a lot about film making.
And here are some fabulous production stills:

Here is one of the animation test:

Daily Nexus Review

This is Adriana also known as Llana, Nana, Llana Grave, Adri, Aids and Adi.

do you hear what i hear?

This is the first post of the Secret Disease Production Team.
i am J.
i am weird.