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if you look at the top of the browser, you can see a new addition to our web site. we’re now offering free high-quality digital downloads (a 1280×720 .mp4 file) of “Last Days: Ante Diem” in exchange for nothing more than an email address. we generally send out only one or two emails each month [...]

3/15/2012 we worked on this project for such a long time, it’s not easy to take stock of the entire work period. however if we plan to do better on Parts 2 & 3 (what we have posted is only Part 1) then that’s something we really need to do. the most obvious and vital [...]

this is the true first full episode of “Last Days: Ante Diem” – what you may have seen before was actually just the first half of it. it was made with the very generous help of a 2011 Celtx Seeds grant. Celtx is now accepting submissions for their 2012 Seeds grants, the deadline is April [...]

Sound Off I don’t talk about it because producing dominates my life, but I have a hidden passion for sound design. In film school when we were had to choose a focus I went with producing because that’s where I saw myself, and was consoled by the fact that even if I wasn’t getting credit, [...]

Project Management A huge piece of producing, especially independent producing, is seeing a project through the process from points A to Z in as efficient a manner as possible. This can be a challenge when you’re working on a project in a medium you’ve never used before such as, oh I don’t know, animation? And [...]

So this weeks video is a biggie for us. Back in August you may have seen our ‘last days ante diem’ teaser for this project, when we were about ankle deep. Since then we have rallied the troops and pumped out our very first animation. If you are not familiar with the project it is [...]

treading water September 2011 will definitely go down as one of the craziest months i’ve ever had. 60 hour weeks at the day job, well over 60 hours (total – not per week) on one of several different freelance gigs and a ridiculous deadline on Last Days: Ante Diem (today) – which we will NOT [...]

This week’s video is a teaser/trailer/behind-the-scenes piece for Last Days: Ante Diem, a webcomic prequel to the episodic Last Days. We recently announced this project had been selected by Celtx for Celtx Seeds, a grant program for narrative web videos. Celtx has created cloud-based scriptwriting/production software that makes it super easy to share and work [...]