The best kind of procrastination, just in time for the holidays

So, me and the other guy, we're big prorcrastinators, mostly because nothing is really more important than watching "Soul Plane" in parts on Youtube.
This time, we put off the animation for something almost as important: an animation. More specifically, a holiday special, which we finished just in time for the holidays.
Honestly I don't feel like typing anymore so here it is. Bye.

Hot Chocolate has the capability to sear flesh...

Bonjour indigenous tribes and anaconda hunting nomads of the Burma Jungles who are reading this (and Ryan). In case you weren't aware (which I'm sure you weren't unless you have cameras in my house. Not going to mention anyone in particular.), I was drinking hot chocolate earlier today, and I was wondering... what if Jessica Simpson was sent from a planet of dumb blondes who's goal was to take over the world. Once they figured out how to spell world of course, in order to label their dumb blonde plan work cited sheet.
But my other thought was that Foark and Spewn is much like hot chocolate, Hot, Delicious and capable to sear your flesh. I cant really elaborate on that, it's as self explanatory as Head-On! (a medicine that you force against your head that like cures bronchitis or rabies or something...)
So in conclusion, when drinking Hot chocolate, Hot Cocoa, Chocolate Caliente or Click Click Boom Beep (if you're a robotic burmese tribesmen), remember that it has the capability to sear your flesh.
So in the real conclusion, Foark and Spewn is going sort of well a little bit, I guess... kinda... just be patient and your shipment of awesome will come in due time, no worries.

P.S. There hasn't been any pictures of real stuff used for the actual animation in a while so I thought I might put something to y'know, satisfy all the woodland creatures and loch ness monsters reading this (And Ryan.) (The quality is pretty crappy but get over it.)








This little kid appears in the beginning, he's not a major character but whatever.

The animation

Hello Hobbit people who live in those little houses on a hill! Welcome back to me updating this damn thing. Though nobody reads this (except for you guys!), me and Will keep writing it in hopes that it will chronicle our rise to the top, the middle, and the bottom of two animating soon-to-be stars, in this topsy-turvy world we call the taxidermy business.

Now recently I went to see "Bee Movie." It was funny, but I think that the audience, me, and the malignant-tumor my sister calls a hamster who we managed to sneak into the theater will agree that the movie was largely overshadowed by one of the previews before it. Yes people, I am of course talking about "Veggietales: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything."

As many of you know, Veggie Tales is a series of usually straight to video CGI films largely based on Christian themes; so, because of the growing Christian market, a studio (who's name I will not mention, but it rhymes with Beamworks) approached me for a couple of designs for MY (and Will's) feature film, "Foark and Spewn: as he lays judgement," a movie about sinning that is a departurte from our happy go lucky stile, into really what can be called a guilt trip film, or a journey into your kids crying in the theater until it's uncomfortable for you.

The problem was, I was very busy actually animating the first episode of Foark n Spewn (which will take a long time to come out, so don't hold your breath), and walking around my house in my underwear. Nonetheless, I managed to squeeze in the few seconds before making this blog post into making a very rough draft of what can be called, Reverend Spewn: whoever he's looking at really screwed up in the eyes of the lord:

So that's the end of my ramble. To tell the truth, Foark n Spewn is progressing, though slowly. And there's really nothing for me to tell here. I finished animating a small scene, and the recording is going just fine. But it will still take a couple of months until it comes out. Making this long an animation between to people with barely any prior experience takes time, so shut up!

Yea so that's it. Good bye!

Recordation!

The title may not be a word, but... I'm pretty sure no one is reading this but Sherpas and yetis, and they both cant read. So anyways, we recorded! one scene but... we're taking it slowly sort of. Not really. We just kinda rambled off of our lines which usually ended with us yelling something obscene that we would never use in the actual animation. So, after we got the microphone all set up after some "Tests", we started. We recorded a scene where i had to make a vomit sound for about a minute, which gave me a sore throat that hurt like a flaming KITTEN (CENSORED BY 'THE MAN'). So, we finished that scene, ate some quesadillas, and we continued to procrastinate. I would have to take blame for most of the time wasting, because every time he left and asked me to do some tracks, i would usually record a miscellaneous obscenity and call it a day. So, if any of you Sherpas are wetting your... Sherpa skirts... get over it. It might be done soon, it might not. But it's almost definitely going to be the latter.

See ya later,
The dude that does pretty much nothing, but sorta designed the characters and helped with the script.

Oh man, stuff!

I guess we need to post SOMETHING. I don't think anyone is reading this, but for the few mountain-cave dwelling folk who do, I've decided to add some stuff.

So recently, while I was changing the script of our animation in order to accomodate my prorcrastinating, my sister's mentally impaired squirrel (or in her words, "SHE'S A GUINEA PIG SO TAKE HER OUT OF THE FRYING PAN YOU MONSTER! BY THE WAY I LOVE FOARK N SPEWN") walked all over my keyboard. Now normally, I would have punted this rodent right into the industrial furniture shredder we have out back, but something amazing had just happened: This store-bought moose creature had actually typed something coherent! In fact, it had typed the exact words that I was JUST about to write!
So, right after I apologized to our sister for drop kicking the chihuaha-lookin thing, I secretly thanked her for buying such a retarded beast.
The moral of the story is that our script now has a shorter scene.
The other moral is that we haven't done anything animation-wise, but now that I bought a tricked out microphone and other stuff, I expect to get to recording about today. That's right, today, will be the day we record, and also the day I start animating.
Well that's it.

-Felipe

Actual animation stuff.

So, I guess we got caught up in being adventure hardcore men and forgot what it was truly about. So I guess, to make it up to you, here is a work in progress of one of the backgrounds of the film. Here you go you chaps. Tip tip!

THE REVOLUTION!

TO ALL THE REBELS IN THE FOARK AND SPEWN MOVEMENT: THE REVOLUTION IS NOW! TAKE OUT YOUR PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES AND UH.... I DONT KNOW.... MAYBE BURN DOWN A BARN OR SOMETHING... it doesnt matter to me.... BUT ANYWAYS... THE FOARK AND SPEWN SENSATION IS SWEEPING THE NATION! SOME AWESOME PEOPLE AT OUR SCHOOL ARE NOW OFFICIALY FOARK AND SPEWN GROUPIES... WOO! so yeah. peace out. Oh, and here are some pictures i discovered of them in the revolution.

FANFICTION IS LIKE A BOOK MADE BY FANS

HEY ITS TEH ANIMATOR. OK SO I FIGURED THAT WE CAN'T BE AN OFFICIAL BLOG/JOURNAL UNTIL WE DO A FANFIC OF HARRY POTTER. I FIGURED THIS BECAUSE IT IS SO.
THEREFORE, SUCH AS AND LIKE, I PRESENT TO YOU, THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY POTTER AND SPEWN WITHIN THE EXPANDED UNIVERSE OF HARRY POTTER WHERE HE INTERACTS WITH FOARK N SPEWN.
IN IT, SPOON GOES WITH HARRY INTO A SPOOKY CAVE TO DEFEAT VOLDEMORT, AND THEN HE ALSO FINDS OUT THAT HARRY AND HIM CAN'T BE TOGETHER (THAT WOULD BE CREEPY SPOON IS A GUY. WELL, SILVERWARE IS ASEXUAL BUT WHATEVER, THIS IS ANTHRO LOL), AND THEN FOARK MAKES A SURPRISE CAMEO. IT IS VERY FUNNY I BELIEVE MYSELF (THE SURPRISE CAMEO, NOT THE WHOLE THING. SOME PARTS OF THE COMIC ACTUALLY MAKE MY EYES SWELL UP BECAUSE IT IS SAD I BELIEVE).
I WANTED TO PUT IN A SIDE STORY ABOUT HERMIONE AND MALFOY'S LOVE, BUT IT DIDN'T FIT I AM SO SORRY BUT IT IS OK, THIS IS JUST AS GOOD. SO ENJOY IT ^_^

Ok FROM FELIPE IT IS TIME YES

This is Felipe, the one who showed you the stills. Of HOT!
So, me and will decided to give the characters motivation. A back story. because of this, I will build on Will's idea of a comic in order to show you the character I envisioned with him.
My first attempt was well intentioned, albeit too silly.

I decided to go for a more sentimental angle. A story of heartbreak, perhaps?

Finally, I decided to go for the "A picture is worth a thousand words" ideal. Here is, the backstory of Foark

LAWL COMIKZ...

hey guys its the character designer, I made a little comic thing to introduce foark to everyone and to introduce his serious anger issues.









(You have to click view image to see it better.)

TOTAL ORPHAN BURNAGE...

OH MAN. (This is the character designer)
THAT LAST POST WAS INTENSE, I FEEL LIKE SOME KIND OF BORING, CORPORATE DRONE! I NEED TO LET LOOSE! GO CUH-RAZY! but I for sure can't keep up with those drawings, they were great, a little creepy to me because i saw them at like 10:00 at night but I'm probably just a wuss. BUT BACK TO TRYING TO BE HARDCORE... S I WAS DRIVING MY MOTORCYCLE UPSIDE DOWN WHILST SETTING A BARN FULL OF NEEDY CHILDREN AFLAME WHEN I DREW THESE WITH MY FIST!
They're supposed to be images of what Spewn and Foark would do if they were to meet Superman himself, Spewn's is typical but foark's is a little bit more morbid... (heh... more morbid...)

Ok PICTURE TIME!!!

This is from Felipe, the animator.

Now I know your panties have been bursting from excitement, so here's some captures of the storyboards. They are totally sweet so grab on to your diapers. This is a picture of Spewn sitting around in his underwear. In the scene, he's evaluating a script he has been sent of a Hemingway work. It's hillarious.

In this next picture here they decide to talk like little girls. Only little girls talk around!!! lol!

The thing is, I dont want to reveal all the action. Thats for another day (the day it comes out to be exct), so I added some fire on foarks hand for all you ACTION XTREME DRUGGIES! In the real scene, i replace that with nothing.

I hope this has been enough. I know it has been for me. in between breaks of doing my homework, drawing for this terrific films, I still have to get a healthy dose of women and rock 'n' roll. So i'm off to drawing scantily clad women while listening to some pretty hardcore christian rock music. Look 'em up, they're called "The lord rocks panties". It's the name of the band.

Sincerely,

the animator

More work done... More brain cells killed...

I say this not because I don't enjoy working on this animation, it's just that the amount of time I've spent on the computer has been so long, that if i stop for too long, I might just go through withdrawal. So anyways, more work has been done, and I think that I can now safely say the script is fully complete. We still have to write the theme song, but all edits that were made to the script are engraved in stone. We basted the jokes in honey BBQ sauce, and roasted the storyline. I feel sort of obligated to give out a little hint about the storyline or something or a character design or a teaser of some sort. So I will. Without giving out too much information, I'll just tell you that a character from the movies Star Wars makes a cameo in our animation. I Won't tell you what he's got to do with anything in the story or what size underwear he wears so I'm gonna go, because I'm pretty much just babbling on and on...

The T-shirt has arrived!

Hooray! The t-shirt is here. But... it's too small for me. It's really cool looking as you can see thurr, and i like the way it came out. So this is a much shorter post, but who cares, I'm guessing that nobody is reading it, I'm just writing this to give myself something to do.

Many characters designed, act 1 of storyboard complete...

Hello to all of our fans (most likely consisting of a couple of our friends, and possibly some internet user who was surfing blogger). I can safely say that things are going well (knock on wood), I have finished the designs for maybe half the cast, not quite sure about the exact amount though. As well as that news, my partner has finished act 1 of the storyboard, and I think it's great. My t-shirt still hasn't come, but that's not that big of a deal. I'm hoping to at least already have recorded the script before school starts, so that we can start the animating. We made a few tiny changes to the script, but the only harm it may cause is that you will laugh so hard that organs may start to shoot from your ears, killing a Swedish family of 4 (no offense to the swedes). So anyways, before I leave to go work, I guess I'll post a character design. Here it is:

Progress, and T-shirt's possibly for sale...

Hey guys, according to the animator/writer/storyboard artist, the storyboard work has undergone. And according to me, the character designer/co-writer, many of the characters have been designed. I think that progress is going pretty well, it's going to be a lot of work, but I think it will be worth it. I also designed a t-shirt, and they may be for sale, for the people who are near us, but sadly not over the internet most likely. When it arrives, I'll take a picture of it, and post it here.

About Foark & Spewn...

Well.... for starters.... my name is Will Niedmann, and my partner (I'm more like his partner, he's more experienced) is Felipe Di Poi. Foark and Spewn is an animation that is under production right now by my friend and I. I can't say too much about the script, because I don't want to leak it to the small fan base that we might develop. All I can say is that it is about a fork and a spoon who are I guess what you could call friends. They go an sort of an adventure that leads them to murdering a TV personality. I'll leave it at that. As we move on in the work, we will maybe show you some character designs and maybe snippets of the script. So for starters I guess I'll show you the designs I created for the main characters, Foark and Spewn: