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Update #6: Making the Animatic

Posted on January 20
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Update #5: Short Animations

Posted on January 10

Sometimes I make short animations and put them on YouTube.  This is the latest, Wheel of Fortune.  I took an episode of WoF and drew the screen every 3 seconds, then put the drawings into a timed slideshow with the original audio track.

This is a similar one of an episode of Blind Date...

This is a very short cartoon of a boy burying porno magazines.  He is afraid his parents will find them.  It is a eulogy for this activity, now that kids find their porn on the internet and will no longer bury them like bodies.

This is a very early one I did.  A word horror video.

And here is a particularly dumb one.  This is a mock opening title sequence I made for an animated series titled Cell Mates.  The premise is this:  The members of the Frat Pack normally stop their immature, deviant behavior by the end of their movie, but in this alternate timeline they never stop their rampage and eventually they're imprisoned.  Cell Mates details their suffering, regrets, and prison adventures.  Enjoy!

We've all been hard at work here on the feature.  A making-of and animatic clip to come!

Thanks,

Dash

Update #4: The End

Posted on May 10, 2011


 

We've reached the end of our campaign, so we can all now breathe a quick sigh of relief between working on the animatic!  We are very grateful for all of your contributions.  It's full steam ahead!

We'll be reaching out to each of you in the next couple of weeks regarding sending you your awards. Thanks!

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      suckerPUNCH on December 8

      did the t-shirts ever go out? the print is great!

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      Matt Levine on December 13

      Hey never did get the poster. Let me know if you can resend one. Otherwise dont stress.

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      Matt Levine on December 13

      Hey can you email me at levinetown@gmail....thx

Update #3: Thanks Again

Posted on April 28, 2011

Wowzers! We’ve reached our Kickstarter goal! “THANK YOUUU!” to all of the contributors and people who linked to us, friends, family, etc.: again: Thank you!

Well, we have a little over a week left in our campaign and we’re still gratefully accepting pledges to assist in this animated undertaking. Funding that goes above our goal will allow us to push the project along beyond our initial hopes — round out our equipment needs, allow us to draw even more of the movie, and even dive into the dark art of casting.  Yes, unlike my other animations, this one will have actual voices!  Human voices shooting through the drawing masks!  It'll make or break it as an emotional experience.

We really tried our best to muster up interesting incentives here: There’s still a couple spots open if you’d like to be drawn into the movie! No acting experience necessary! Or, with a forty dollar donation: a print that, after the campaign, will not be available again, ever! Same goes for the t-shirts! And, of course, we’ll be mailing out those postcards to everyone! Postcards make excellent bookmarks! Last chance!  Thanks again!

Update #2: Video Message

Posted on April 24, 2011


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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 8, 2011.

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Our deepest gratitude, not only spiritually but as a printed, limited-edition postcard hand-written and signed by Dash and whoever else is in the room. (We'll send this to all of our backers at $5 and up).

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Everything above AND a DVD of the feature (upon its DVD release) AND a signed copy of Dash's animation art book "The Unclothed Man," courtesy of Fantagraphics Books. (Canadian friends, please add $7 for shipping; international, please add $9).

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You'll get a piece of the movie itself —also suitable for framing! — an 8.5 X 11" original line art drawing on paper from the movie, and everything above. (Canadian friends, please add $7 for shipping; international, please add $9).

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Your face, in the movie! Shaw will draw a background character with your likeness in the movie. You'll be mailed the drawing after it's been filmed. You'll also get everything above.

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A private screening in NYC or LA with John Cameron Mitchell and one of his films — Rabbit Hole, Shortbus, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, or his action movie Band of the Hand starring him as a homocidal New Waver pitted against coke pimp Lawrence Fishburne. Plus everything above!

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Dash Shaw

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I was born in Richmond, Virginia, and drew the comic books BodyWorld, which was originally serialized online and later published in print form by Pantheon Books, and Bottomless Belly Button, published in 2008 from Fantagraphics Books. I did a series of animated shorts called The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD in 2009 that's streaming online at IFC.com, and is available on DVD in Wholphin Volume 13. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, where I'm working on this animated feature and another comic book.

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