Get Ready For Gothtober 2010

Last night we delivered the 'teaser' version of our short film to our friends at Gothtober. This version is the first act in animatic (animated storyboard) format, and it has the final music track performed by Team Little Green Dog (Brett '2ch' Santucci, Alisa Loren Klein, A. Isamu Kuromi, Claire K. Kuromi, Sienna Kai Greenlaw, myself, and of course Sergeant Marshmallow and Toullie.) We had hoped to have the fully animated cg version ready, but unforeseen mocap retargeting issues tripped us up. Once I accepted that the cg version wasn't going to happen in time for Gothtober, I realized that our back up plan (the animatic) played better as a 'teaser' anyway.

So, if you're curious about our project and want to become even more curious about it, watch for the teaser at www.gothtober.com on October 31st.

We still intend to finish the cg version of the full movie by mid-December, and you can keep up with our progress by reading the production log, which we'll open to our friends (that's you) shortly after Halloween.

- Greenlaw

What the Hell?

Our new computer arrived this week, specially built for our markerless motion capture system. Just in time for Gothtober 2010!

So what exactly does that mean? Sorry, you'll just have to wait until next month to find out.

In the meantime it's 'bring-a-friend-to-work' day for the Grim Reaper in this week's webcomic Streams - Episode 12 'Snowball'.

- Sgt M.

Boring Tech Update

You may have noticed that the website was under construction all this week. Things should be stable now so, if you see anything weird, try refreshing your browser.

So what's new? We updated the Hello Frankenstein page to display the YouTube version of the movie, so you can watch it here bigger and in higher quality now. Other sections (Gallery, Books, Comics,) have been improved or at least made to look more uniform with the rest of the site. We're still working on the Store and the new Studio sections, so you can expect a new look and content there soon.

Two new features are Comic Roulette and Sergeant Says..., which are appearing on almost every page. These panels are still a bit limited in content, but we'll be expanding them over the next week or two.

We hope you like these changes. Let us know what you think!

Two bad things this week:

1. Because we changed the extensions on many pages from .html to .php, we lost our comments on those pages. We're going to try to restore the comments as best we can but the dates will be wrong. Oh, well.

2. No new comic this Monday because the web stuff took up too much time.

Look for a four part Streams starting next Monday though. (Now that's a good thing!)

- Greenlaw

"The Mysteryes of Nature and Art"

When people tell us to "go fly a kite," in Brudders - Episode 49 'Kite', we show 'em how it's done.

Remember folks: flying is still the safest way to travel.

- Sgt M.

"...isn't that interesting?"

Our delightful dinner with Death continues in this week's comic Streams - Episode 11 'Just Dessert'.

Save room for cookies.

Brudders will be back with a new episode next week.

- Sgt M.

History Reruns Itself

So if Henry the VIII and Bill Cosby got into a fight, who do you think would win? These are the things Greenlaw thinks about. Pathetic, isn't it?

Anyway, Brudders - Episode 48 'Ye Olde Saturday Morning Catoone' is up. If you find it too puzzling, try singing it to the tune of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.


If you're a glutton for punishment, or maybe just a glutton, come back later this week for a 'behind the scenes' look look at this strip.

- Sgt M.

The Next Studio Session

Sorry for the delays with Brudders and Streams. We've been busy figuring out a workflow for our new mocap system, and we're getting close to nailing things down. If you'd like to see a brief test done in our secret lab, please visit Little Green Dog Test Tube, our new YouTube channel where we will be posting our geeky tests and experiments.

Anyway, creating motion capture on a 'regular Joe' budget will be the topic of our next Studio Sessions.

-Greenlaw