A SECRET DISEASE

Shoo Race

2008-06-13T20:43:00.000-07:00

Here you go children:

http://blip.tv/file/991792/

Watch this. Why? Because we still love you.

-Adriana

Party next Tuesday!!!!!

2008-01-29T16:06:00.001-08:00

TUESDAY FEB 5th!!!!!!!!!!!

Consoles Afire 08

Your consoles are angry. You haven't been playing enough these days. They want your mind, they want your blood and they want your techno. We three aim to please. Live video-game inspired techno, performance, and visuals. From remixes to original tracks to live experiments.

Featuring:

SXEZSKOZ

robotcowboy

Laromlab

Motion Lounge is located between S Main St. and S Los Angeles St. at 129 E 3rd St. Please enter through the parking lot to the left of the building with the green awning.

21+ Please.

$7 at the door.

$2 beers for you.

Check them out before hand:

http://sxezskoz.com

http://myspace.com/laromlab

http://myspace.com/robotcowboy

Visuals by Secret Disease.

PS... if you like The Titan Sting, SXEZSKOZ did the soundtrack.

Add the event:

Yelp:
http://www.yelp.com/events/los-angeles-consoles-afire-08

Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/event/491028

Ink FInger

2008-01-25T02:21:00.000-08:00

Here is our latest short:

CLICK HERE FOR A GOOD TIME :)

BTW Ianswer is on hold until I get a faster computer!!!!

Loves Always Forever Plus a Day,
Adriana

iANSWER

2007-09-09T04:09:00.001-07:00

NEW CUT

2007-09-09T02:28:00.000-07:00

A new cut of a classic Secret Disease short. ENJOY!

Love Always,
Adri :)

skeet skeet.

2007-07-25T19:22:00.000-07:00

hey kids. how is your life? its prolly not as boring as ours!
or maybe it is, Adriana and J have been divided by their jobs! but have no fear, once our lives get into a nice routine well be able to schedule more secret infections to increase your disease!

for now, J will be working at UNIVISION in santa barbara doing technical direction and editing. its the local news. pretty chill, he rides his bike to work in perfect weather!! yay!
meawhile hes training on some cool animation softwares so that once day he will be able to bring adrianas madness to rotten fruitition.

sigh. i miss making cartoons.

REPENTEX

2007-07-19T22:42:00.000-07:00

Repentex is about a world in which you can purchase RELIGION IN A PILL! A man watching television orders Repentex from a 1-800 number and allows his sins to over take his life.

A 16mm project that premiered at the UCSB Reel Loud Film Festival. This youtube version is a bad telecine which doesn't do it justice... but what can you do.

It premiered with a live accompaniment. The infomercial half was scored on keyboard by Jeff Phaklides on Piano. The second half was done by Nice on Ice.
the song used is called SINNING ON A SUNDAY and it is available for download on their myspace. I must tell you that this song rocks!

The narration was done live by Kelly Livingston with variations from the narration on this clip.

Director/Writer: Adriana Blancarte
Writer/DP/Star: Evan Kohene
Producer: J Ramos

Free Copy

2007-07-19T22:26:00.000-07:00

If anyone wants a free bootleg copy of this... email me your address and I will mail it. No Lie. Oh... and I do mean THE WHOLE movie (20 mins) as it premiered at the screening. rzeznik_8@yahoo.com.

The real copies are not done yet :(

2007-06-25T22:38:00.001-07:00

Also J won the Corwin Award for best Production Design. Yay J!

Hey Kids

2007-06-25T22:36:00.000-07:00

The Titan Sting is being submitted to the ready made film festival. Also the 106 dvds are in. The Titan Sting Solo Dvd with a docmentary (which is done) and a slideshow is in the works.

ok its time to bee stung

2007-03-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

ok i have no idea how hes done it, but i know hes done it.

simon estrada. i think i'm his biggest fan.

anyways.

ya he drew most of the movie.
then i animated most of it.

yay.

Simon

2007-02-26T02:47:00.000-08:00

where would we be without him?

Moving Along

2007-02-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

hey boys and girls. welcome back to the secret disease journal!
where have you been??

well, i know we havent written anything for a while, its hard to keep this thing
up with news. but have no fear! some news is herre! (Nellese)

people are finally starting to see some resluts (sic) of all our hard work!
the images are gorgeous, the animation is pretty neat, and we still have yet to see a disgruntled face from anyone whos seen what we have so far.

this motivates me more than anything, when people actually like what were doing. sigh.
Well, Adriana, Janet and I pulled an all nighter thursday night..i got about 2 hours of sleep, and man was it worth it. I am hooked on animating now. its addicting.

we are going to shoot more this weekend with another possible all nighter on SUNDAY.

if anyone would like to see what were doing, let us know, i would love to show off our movie methods.

okay. my fingers are cold. goodbye.

Secret Disease

2007-02-19T23:47:00.000-08:00

So like I left for home (finally) and J got sick... poor baby. Mark and J animated this weekend. Let us all thank Annie she is here editing and might be here for a long time because we have to get this ready for Jeff tomorrow so he can do the sound mix. I got into town at 3 and still haven't been home but its all good... I love what has been done. We do have a lot of re-shoots ahead of us if time will allow. WHAT ELSE? Well... I got some new music from Al that will be featured in the animatic and Jeff and Janet met today to continue the gathering of sounds for the awesome mix that will take place. Ah! I can't wait. I am happy. :) And Jess made this:

MEOW
-Adrianananananananana

i got sick

2007-02-18T23:59:00.000-08:00

ya. i got sick and i am not very happy about it.

;j

YAY its 4am!!!

2007-02-09T04:01:00.000-08:00

thats right, thanks to my, or should i say ADRIANA's, experience on the DAN'CING LLAMA, we learned that if we can stay up all night shooting animation now, then were better off for post later. IN fact, we have a wide assortment of post people and ideas, so were actually working our asses and our minds off to get them the footage!!!

sorry, its 4 am and i have been in the loft since 6pm. i had naan stop.
its ok but a while ago they changed the recipe of their TIKKA MASALA and now i have really bad toilet experinces. oh ya, i was wondering, if a Urinal is called a urinal, shouldnt a toilet be called a fecal?

Anyways...funny story, adriana and nikki went outside to have a smoke and they propped the door open so they could come back in. I needed to get some natural leaves for a shot so i went outside, but then...the trashcan began to give way....NOOOOO! i ran to the door and just as i grasped (groped) the handle, it went "click" we were locked out of the loft. Fortunatley a CSO was not allowed to go home on time so she could help us. Turns out shes interning on WAITING ROOM, the dramatic pause of the 106's. Anyways long story short...she let us in and we were happy.

we did some great things tonight, things i can;t even began to explain because, well...you'll just have to wait to see the movie. but i did a run cycle using STEPHANIES amazing art. oh btw STEPH, i had to cut connerys foot off.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

;j

Design 1

2007-02-04T18:43:00.000-08:00

Yay Sound!

2007-01-30T20:31:00.000-08:00

Let's step back from the super sexy visuals and talk about the very seductive sound. We had a very successful meeting with Jeff and Janet our sound people. There was some talk about trumpets, backpacks, chainsaws, tomatoes, vaseline and glasses of milk?!?! Basically this movie is going to sound as great as it looks. So we have Jeff and Janet splitting the sound effects... and Jeff making a great mix out of his very own closet (it's a very nice looking closet). On the electronic side we have our composer Al working on some great video game music. Yay Titan Sting!

Stephanie

2007-01-28T21:42:00.000-08:00

so our wonderful artist stephanie drew this.

thats about it.

cuz i can;t give away too many trade secrets just yet.
also today ryan fung did some awesome after effects shot. i love it.
haha.

;j

a question of ethics.

2007-01-27T21:41:00.000-08:00

Ok, i admit. we took it a bit far here. Ya I actually am in quite a bit of disgust when i realize what is really going on with this image. It offends me.

and getting offended is something that seems to offend others. As if they dont want us to be offended by them, but what is really goin on is a discussion of ethics, morals, ideologies.

ah yes ideologies. that is why i like to be offended and i reserve the right to offend myself in order to prevent myself from becoming numb to the world.

A meat stuffed bear. thats what humanity is really like sometimes..you think he;s so sweet and cuddly and innocent, so much in fact that you sleep with him everynight. Little do you know, that inside him he is nothing but flesh and clay. And everyday that goes by, he seems to stink a little more.
And i should also note, you can probably buy so much security in the same store. But we went to albertsons cuz the thrift store doesnt sell used meat.

and no one had any live worms available this time of year. Big five is the shitiest store in Santa Barbara.

i should also note again. one last times. I wanted to feed the bear to racoons so the meat wouldnt go to waste.

that also offended me.

;j

DON'T MOVE A MUSCLE!

2007-01-27T21:07:00.000-08:00

so were starting to get some action packed images of sean connery. LOOK at those biceps! and that moustache....ooh and that BEARD. haha.

anyways the animation looks great. Mark Batalla, animator, is doing some sweet stuff. hopefully he shows out movie to his potential employers!! that bastard doesnt have any classes.

so he works for us! sweet.

The cells arent going to work for mackenize...dammit. just gunna have to print out some new faces. This has been the best learning experince i've had in years.

adriana says your high.

ok.

gnoodnight.

production is now on a roll!!!

2007-01-26T09:14:00.000-08:00

after all the dilly dallying i.e. making set/characters that we're not gunna use, we have finally settled on what look works the best!
just to bring everyone up to speed with our slow progess, we, I, had started this project wanting our sets and characters to look like stufft figures, fabrics, cloth, felt...all that..a real unique look that somehow would not work with the designs we ended up getting from a certain Simon Estrada, character designer.

Upon seeing his designs i decided that we had to get his look in the film. but how? well, after looking at the option of just using cutouts, i wanted to try something using a material called foamie. Its a thin colored sheet of foam that looks awesome, and it is posable, so long as there are wires behind them, or glued inside folded pieces, this is how we made early arms.
after a few tests, i thought it looked good and it would work, so i planned on converting all of Estradas drawings into foamie characters. This process took SOOOOO long, and i spent weeks making characters, mostly sean connery, our suporting character. Facial expressions are a whole other story with this method and it was proving to be a bit too much work.

But i pressed on, until one day, i realized that if i was going to convert all of the mackenzies into foamy, that our film would never get finished. like.....NEVER.
So i made a choice 3 nights ago after a couple of tests...NO MORE FOAMIES!!!!
Why? TOO MUCH WASTED TIME! so instead i have gone back to Estradas orginal artwork, colored, printed and cut it out. and it looks AWESOME!.

I added another artist by the name Stephanie Cheung, who I contacted after seeing 2 of her drawings, i knew her style would work seemlessly with Estradas. So bringing her on the team has doubled production. and the results are gorgeous.

GO TITAN STINGERS!!!! YYEEEOOOWO!! sorry. that was lame.
-J.

The Orthus Poppy!

2007-01-22T22:32:00.000-08:00

Yes.

2007-01-17T00:38:00.000-08:00

Meat Test

2007-01-13T17:09:00.000-08:00

So I went out and bought meat today. Mark animated it. We really got a feel for what we are going to be able to accomplish with the meat. This clip is off of the lunchbox which means the quality is a bit lower but the idea is still there. We also have to prepare the meat next time... this is all bloody and it smelled pretty bad to some. Anyways it was fun. Thanks to everyone who helped out today. Soon we will be putting up some cool photos of Mackenzie and Cuff in their real forms for everyone to enjoy.

-Adriana

Pt.2

2007-01-07T20:26:00.000-08:00

It is isn't.

2007-01-06T20:52:00.000-08:00

A nice little test. Some set pieces from the rainbow scene.

Also...

The Dancing Llama trailer:

Happy Birthday! Again!

2006-12-27T16:46:00.000-08:00

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)

2006-12-23T13:10:00.000-08:00

Another try

2006-12-17T23:28:00.000-08:00

J did this one. Looks good. enjoy:

I hope everyone has a great holiday!!!

Love,
Adriana

Today...

2006-12-14T00:22:00.000-08:00

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

Greetings from my frozen feet

2006-12-11T00:41:00.000-08:00

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.

2006-12-03T14:20:00.000-08:00

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

More storyboards...

2006-12-01T20:02:00.000-08:00

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

The Voices!

2006-12-01T15:13:00.000-08:00

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

2006-11-29T02:18:00.000-08:00

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

2006-11-21T18:09:00.000-08:00

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.

2006-11-21T01:05:00.000-08:00

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

sweet.

game genie by AL

2006-11-19T01:41:00.001-08:00

some new mofo pix.

2006-11-18T23:08:00.000-08:00

check these out, very entertaining no???

Myspace?

2006-11-17T01:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.myspace.com/129978083

Add us!

hurrah.

2006-11-16T12:04:00.000-08:00

check out Max and Eric

arts alive

2006-11-14T00:38:00.000-08:00

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?

2006-11-07T15:49:00.000-08:00

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

2006-11-06T15:30:00.000-08:00

MAx is the Cloud

2006-11-05T23:39:00.000-08:00

The Scale

2006-11-03T00:48:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-02T22:32:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2006-09-29T16:53:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-27T12:58:00.000-07:00

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.

2006-09-19T09:18:00.000-07:00

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!"

2006-09-15T16:21:00.000-07:00

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!

2006-09-15T16:20:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

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

2006-09-05T23:39:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-31T01:39:00.000-07:00

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

2006-08-28T23:16:00.000-07:00

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

let us know if you are interested. jerk.

The Stuff of Nightmares

2006-08-27T18:50:00.000-07:00

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?

2006-08-27T18:35:00.000-07:00

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