DoorQ Pays Me Commission

Well, not really, but this post is going to sound like an ad for them, so let me cling to my fragile economic fantasies, thank you. I've been doing most of my blogging these days on DoorQ, where you can read such gems as Nintendo Saved My Marriage, Google's Bachelor Uncle, and Linux Will Get You Laid. I've also posted some Applesauce progress there, so you should be using DoorQ as your vendor for Applesauce-related news.

Speaking of Applesauce-related news: we've begun production on the first episode! We have all of four shots completed at the moment, but still, it feels good to have the ball rolling rolling. I'll be posting screenshots of sequences to DoorQ as we complete them, so tune in.

Everything Changes

While I wait for the barbarians to invade, I thought I'd drop a quick note to let you all know that I will be semi-pro blogging for doorq.com, the long overdue portal site for gay sci-fi fans like me. They're also going to be showing Pandemonium and Alone, so that's great exposure for us. Hopefully the site will be a huge success and we'll have an audience already gathered in one place when we finish Applesauce. Go check it out!

Claudia Christian is the Boss of Me

So Dex took a trip to Phoenix to visit the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival among other people and places. So he's expecting to drop around $100 for tickets when a festival zombie rushed up to him and said, "Oh my God! It's you."

"Me?" said Dex, utterly bemused.

"You're a VIP!"

Dex cocked an eyebrow. "Am I?"

"Yes yes! You're one of the Founding Board Members of the Phoenix Film Foundation!"

"Oh right, I forgot."

And so Dex got the full VIP treatment, which meant he got to spend some quality time with Claudia Christian, the divine goddess of Babylon 5. I hate him. But at least he got to show Ms. Christian the first Applesauce teaser, by harnessing the power of his iPhone. See? That $400 price tag is totally worth it.

Evidently she liked what she saw, as she graciously signed my now framed photo with "Applesauce rules!" And let me tell you, I squeed so hard when Dex showed me my souvenir. I squeed so hard and so long.

I am not worthy.

Poet vs Gang Warfare

Here's a still from our second Applesauce teaser, due out in a few weeks or so. What are all the pretty purple lights? They are emotech. Be afraid.

Meanwhile I hate this month. Too much going on with various systems at work, although I think I have a grip on all that now. I just need this week's conference to be over, and then I can take a breather before the riots hit.

Well, hopefully there won't be riots. But I live in the Castro in San Francisco, and traditionally there has been a major street party on Halloween in the Castro. Unfortunately, over the past few the Halloween party has become increasingly violent, culminating in a shooting last year. The city has officially canceled this year's party, but I doubt that will prevent the fifty thousand people from showing up anyway. This can't end well.

At any rate, hopefully we'll have the second teaser finished soon, assuming our fellow citizens don't murder us. We plan to finish a total of four teasers before working on the actual episodes of Applesauce, mostly to work out the kinks in the animation process. Stay tuned...

More On the First Teaser

1. The name of the piece is "The Song of Wandering Aengus."
2. That is also the title of the poem recited at the end.
3. Yeats wrote the poem, not me.
4. You can download the clip in high definition (1920x1080x24P) from the Internet Archive. It's a 250 megabyte download, and I only recommend it if you have a fast computer.
5. We created a new YouTube user for Applesauce, because our old YouTube account contains material that isn't safe-for-work. The new YouTube account is gaymecha. I am that awesome.

Applesauce Preview #1

Unity and Identity must stop a Celtic legend from ripping apart the galaxy. The video contains audio samples from the user 9425_thanvannispen of the FreeSound project.

Grrr

And here we see the first production still from Applesauce. It's actually from a little teaser clip we're putting together as an animation test. With any luck we'll have the full 45-second animation ready in a week or two, so you'll learn why the Celtic BDSM legend is ripping apart the sun, and how our cosmic heroes, Unity and Identity, stop him. Stay tuned...