Yes, after about two years, way-too-dang-many promising journals and a whole lot of procrastination, material hunting, puppet-building and a whole lot of other nonsense that happened to show up, the spectacular display of splundiferous mediocrity that is THE MOVIE RATS web-style show! Here's our channel:

[link]

and part one to our first episode here: [link]

My friend Mike plays....Movie Rat Mike and I play Movie Rat Ian and Mindy, and our friend Robert lends an extra hand as her in the opening. I think it came out pretty good!

Check out both of our solo YouTube channels for single-character straight movie reviews (not a half hour like the show):
Mike's: [link]
Mine: [link]

Please support us with as many good ratings, links, comments and word-of-mouth you can because the only ones watching right now are my mom, sister and cousin. Oh, and please friend us or subscribe! We're not one's for spamming so this is my one shot at self promotion.

Despite what may appear, this show actually took a whole lot of work behind it. Yeah, the week before, my mother's putting-off-of-work finally caught up to her all at once and the rats themselves were finished and clothed in two nights total, in an incredibly well done rush job...if I say so myself. Filming was also really weird due to some last minute cancelations from our help and some major compromises of our....well, I guess you could call it the "vision." We started up simply enough and tried to jump right into it, but soon realised how awkward we became on camera, with Mike surprisingly admitting his trouble with improv (you may not know him, but that's sort of an event ). The show was postponed another day for scripting (while watching Count Duckula), and the show was finally filmed Saturday afternoon with my crappy-written intro in place. 1001 script f-ups, retakes, sinking puppets and visible arms notwithstanding, we actually managed to have a whole lot of fun shooting this show...though the room got hot, my asthma came back and our arms near fell off. Even when it was done filming, the editing was a nightmare. Mike tried his best to work with his materials...but his materials sucked. Seriously people, don't but Pinnacle Studio. Just don't. The audio track slid around like crazy and the playback came out choppy (when it wasn't coming out as a wall of black), making the editing really....hard, to say the least. And afterwards it took hours to upload. Oh, and this is all a bad combo with Mike's busy schedule, procrastination and incredible ability to stay out of touch.

Me via Facebook photo comment: "Waiting for Mike to put Movie Rats online....waiting, waiting, waiting."
Mike: "well, it've beed have been uploading video all morning and have been non-stop since 9:00 so, yeah. It's uploading on youtube, but it's going to be another 50 minutes. But, I have to go to work so, i'm just going to leave it uploading, til I get back."
Me: "Whoah, that's a long time...Well, thanks, at least it's finally going somewhere...try and fix it tonight too, if we're doing the promised/planned Halloween episode. Please send it the second you're back. We're already a week behind. Also, if we're doing a Paranormal Activity parody for the Halloween episode *I need to see the movie!* Can we see it tomorrow morning?...and did you actually script this change-of-plans?...and is it a review or what? You keep coming back to me with these cryptic half-answers and I'm alone in the dark not exactly knowing what we're doing. With your schedule, we barely have contact and it's really taking a toll on this show. It only "gets easier from here" if we work."

And so on and so forth. So yeah, The Movie Rats is serious business.

Honestly, looking back, it's pretty incredibly that he managed to edit at all and he did a good job. (Though yeah, there's a lot of bloopers) It was both really fun and really hard to make and you should go and appreciate my friend's work in making this thing possible! Check out our far superior all-improvised Halloween special here:

[link]

I had to go and see the movie to film that, and I do think it was worth it....even though what I didn't find scary in theatres (the movie didn't really scare me) later became horrifying when going to Mike's place and realized how similar his house looks to the one in the film. :scared:

In other nobody-cares news, the reason I haven't posted much is because of my surplus of schoolwork, like a major group project (along with daily vocab work and writing Canterbury Tales imitations [late now] and a traditional style ballad) AP English, late stuff in AP Art and making a teddy bear in Blender. Or in my case, a teddy bat. 'Cause I'm a weirdo..........Yeah, I suck at that class. I don't know why I do this to myself.


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Pencil drawing or sketch: $5 [link]
Clean Pen drawing: $10 [link]
Colored: $15 [link]

Requests are going to be closed until further notice...or until I get some comissions. Trades are open. Just ask me what you want in a note. Please commission, I work fast and I can scan anytime! I'm trying to raise more money for Movie Rats tools and supplies (cameras, etc.), art supples.....and this is my only source of income until I get a real job.

If it'll prompt *anyone*, for a limited time (from now until I get some): BUY ONE GET ONE PENCIL SKETCH FREE! ....yeah, I'm desperate.

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COMMISFORMATION...or COMMINFO
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Pencil drawing or sketch: $5 [link]
Clean Pen drawing: $10 [link]
Colored: $15 [link]

Requests are going to be closed until further notice...or until I get some comissions. Trades are open. Just ask me what you want in a note. Please commission, I work fast and I can scan anytime! I'm trying to raise more money for Movie Rats tools and supplies (cameras, etc.), art supples.....and this is my only source of income until I get a real job.

If it'll prompt *anyone*, for a limited time (from now until I get some): BUY ONE GET ONE PENCIL SKETCH FREE! ....yeah, I'm desperate. XP
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......Real journal coming very soon.

Yep, it's that time again. Again. For once, I'm actually excited about going back...though I definitely didn't miss going to bed at 10(30 ) or waking up at 5:20. Anyway, while I'm here, how did you guys Spend Your Summer Vacations? I saw some movies and plays, but that's about it...nothing much to report, I was just really tired of having that out-of-date journal as always.

*[Edit]. One week in and things are going pretty good! Computer art looks fun, but moves pretty fast and it reminded me how much unfinished computer graphics creep me the hell out. Seriously, I made a gooey looking "C" shape that exploded on me and deleted half of a bust, makin' him all hollow. Seriously, just remembering it gave me the willies...and I *never* use that word. Oh well, hopefully I'll get the hang of things (and get used to things) by the time we start creating actual characters. But if my 8th(?) grade class with this teacher is anything like this one....it'll be one horribly paced roller coaster to a barely passing grade. Buuuut, this should be better. Advanced Art is frickin' sweet and I love this teacher, and all the kids are nice. AP English is taking it's time...but in about a week...when I get comfortable....I know it's going to ambush me and attack with a f***-ton of essays. Actually, there's already one due Tuesday...but it's pretty simple. Unlike the three summer-reading projects due at the end of the month. Aside from that, Algebra is incredibly easy for once, American Government could be cool and Biology (that I'm taking now [with a bunch of underacheivers and lower-grade...kids] because of many years of scheduling errors nobody noticed until last year)...is looking weird. The teacher mumbles really softly, does many lessons a day and moves super fast while constantly reminding us that he can't wait for us to finish. ANYwho....I'll live.

The Movie Rats puppets are underway and close to completion and we should hopefully have an episode online (the big Summer Movie Review) by the *third or fourth* week of september.

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COMMISFORMATION...or COMMINFO
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Pencil drawing or sketch: $5 [link]
Clean Pen drawing: $10 [link]
Colored: $15 [link]

Requests are going to be closed until further notice...or until I get some comissions. Trades are open. Just ask me what you want in a note. Please commission, I work fast and I can scan anytime! I'm trying to raise more money for Movie Rats tools and supplies (cameras, etc.), art supples.....and this is my only source of income until I get a real job.

If it'll prompt *anyone*, for a limited time (from now until I get some): BUY ONE GET ONE PENCIL SKETCH FREE! ....yeah, I'm desperate. XP
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...Y'know, like Wednesday is "hump day"...because it's in the middle of the week, like July is middle of summer.....get your minds out of the gutter people. XP Anyway, I haven't been up to much this summer because of school: Geometry/Algebra 2 summer school and my Advance Placement reading class. I can handle the reading, if Ellison's Invisible Man wasn't such a dark thought piece and I wasn't already reading Golden Compass, Little Prince, Richard Williams' Animators Survival Kit, John Hodgman's Areas of my Expertise and a book on Japanese mythology. To top it off, when I'm done Invisible Man, I have to finish 1984 and Waiting for Godot for that same class. And if I don't finish it means I start off the year behind in my easiest subject. XP Anyway, I know I can do it; I'm pretty fast and I'm beginning to schedule myself with the help of my trusty-dusty Betty Boop calender.

Other than that, my summer's been slow. Me and my friends filmed the first third or so of my short film for-internet-release....and because of their schedules, we can't finish it until August, meaning the other film will be put on hold. But, on the bright side, the fur for the MOVIE RATS puppets came in! Meaning that when the puppets are done (should only be a couple of weeks), our web-show should be on track to a weekly series! I'll post the link alone in a journal whenever we start up the channel.

Also, that "mystery puppet" I mentioned ages ago has been finished for a few months now....so now that I finally have a camera (built in to the computer), I'll try and take a photo and put it up by tonight!


Oh....and I got a MacBook! It's awesome, easy to use.......and somehow the keyboard wound up looking burnt. Yeah, I have to clean that. But other than that which I probably caused; I'm loving this comp and with it I have all the art tools I need! Photoshop/flash is going up soon, I have a tablet and Manga Studio! Whenever I get good enough at those, I'll start that new account.

Thank you very much to all the people that commisioned!

Finally, time off! Now I can actually draw. XP I don't have too much new news besides: look out this summer. Me and some friends are starting two YouTube pages over the summer, one for shorts, one for the Movie Rats reviews! I'll be writing and directing (and animating ) a bunch of these, so keep a look out!

Also, I'm getting a new laptop; a MacBook Pro! With it I'm getting a tablet and Manga Studio or Photoshop with the commission money I got. And some time this summer I'm starting another "proffesional" account on DA focusing on my shorts work, digital art and comics, and kind of leaving this one just....sit here (don't worry I won't remove this one). I may still put stuff up, but I'm trying to get a clean slate to move up a step artistically. But either way, I'm not leaving DA for a long while. So, that's it for me, how're you guys?
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COMMISFORMATION...or COMMINFO
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Pencil drawing or sketch: $5 [link]
Clean Pen drawing: $10 [link]
Colored: $15 [link]

Requests are going to be closed until further notice. Just ask me what you want in a note. Please commission , now I can scan anytime!
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