THE SIMPSONS NEWS

So last Friday, was a bit tense at work over the whole actors signing to do another season. At least it was for me.  Even though I tried not to think about it, I couldn’t help but be a little anxious about whether or not I’d have the job after this current season of the show was over.  It was pretty much a typical day at the office and looking around you would have never guessed that somewhere, some people where out there deciding our livelihood without us being able to do anything about it.

On the one hand, we’ve been through it before. On the other hand, this somehow seemed a little more tense than prior years.

Sometimes I forgot that it was happening though, so I was mostly fine.  It was only when someone came in and asked about it or talked about it, that I started worrying again.  Still, I had had a talk with my current director, the day before, who didn’t really seem to think it was a big deal.  This helped set my mind at ease at times.

That said, it was a relief to hear that the show was going to go on for another two seasons.  It would be VERY nice, if it went on for three more after that.  Here’s hoping…

BOOKS

I know I said I’d post some of my wife’s book this week, but I think I’ll wait till next week for that.  Especially since, I think the hard copy of the her book will be available for purchase then.  This week, I thought I’d talk about a different project…

VIDEO

My friend and co-worker Erick Tran is branching out. Erick has his finger in a LOT of different pies. This time around, he’s trying to raise money to produce a season of his animated cartoon for the web. He’s put all the info on Kickstarter.

If you’ve never heard of Kickstarter, it’s a website that helps you “crowd fund” projects that you would like to get off the ground.  The way it works is, you post up a project with a video of what it’s about. Then people support you by  donating however amount of money they would like to donate and in return, they get some kind of benefit you provide for helping out.  Each Kickstarter project has a goal it’s trying to meet and a deadline to meet it.  If the goal isn’t reached, the donators do not get charged for their donation, and therefore they don’t pay. BUT the product doesn’t raise any money and the donators don’t get any benefits either.

Erick‘s goal is $100,000 by Tuesday November 8th. Depending on your donation, you can actually have an Executive Producer title on this cartoon.

Here’s Erick to talk more about what he’s up to:

If you’re interested, CLICK HERE to see how you can help.  You can donate an amount as low as a dollar.

BOARD GAMES/BLOG

So I was made aware of this blog post by Rose King, who wrote an post naming THE TEN WORST BOARD GAMES EVER CREATED.

Number 10 is DOCTOR RUTH’S GAME OF GOOD SEX and it all goes downhill from there. Check it out for a good laugh.

ART

I started working on my cartoon again.  I mostly got time to start actually writing my “script” but I did get some drawing in.  I’ve changed enough of the details of my story so that I now have to start doing some new designs of something things.  One of them being, one of my Winged Apes.  It’s now going to be a Zombie Winged Ape or something that looks much more like a “dead” looking Ape. Here are my first attempts at the design of the face:

I don’t think this is what I want but I think I now know what I DO want.

I’ll have more drawings on my project ready for next week.

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