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Dana Gould asked me to design a postcard and an ad for the funeral fund of his late friend Maila Nurmi - perhaps better known as Vampira. What an honor. I am sorry I never met her, but gently correcting a rare color photo of her, delicately removing unwanted background pixel by pixel, rouging her lips and fingernails by hand, I feel I've done something good for the Mistress of The Dark.If you

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What's weaker than the title of this blog entry? Its tie-in to animation! Nevertheless, I must give a shout out to The Game 2007. This all-day scavenger hunt, which covered The Grove, Hollywood Forever cemetary, the Hollywood Wax Museum, SAG and 18 other destinations, was an unbelievable blast. My team consisted of Neil "Scrubs" Flynn, Rad "Fruit of the Loom Apple" Daly, and Blaine "My Husband

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In my excessive summer busyness, I forgot to mention an entertaining new production at the Steve Allen Theater. Proudly billing their collection as the "worst cartoons ever," Cartoon Dump! showcases classics of a not-bygone-enough era. Typical attributes of these shorts include: ridiculous lipsync (recorded after the animation?), no lipsync (the kids in "Big World of Little Adam" speak

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I screened this, my new short, at the 2nd anniversary of the Tomorrow Show last Saturday, hosted by Craig Anton, Ron Lynch and Brendon Small. Craig & Ron are also in the Tulsa Skull Swingers, the kick-assingest band that twinny and I go-go dance for. Please enjoy.xoxoVera

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Sad news. Alexander Tatarsky passed away yesterday. He was the co-founder and president of Studiya Pilot*, the first non-state animation studio in Russia. I'd met him in Moscow in 1996 through Igor Kovalyov - his best friend and studio partner - and ended up moving in with "Sasha," his lovely wife Katya (all pictured above, Sasha middle) and three-year-old son Ilya for seven weeks. I kept

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You’ve been there, right? Your friend is in a band or some theater production, and they invite you to see them, and you have to be supportive. You don’t have a choice. Like last week, my husband Blaine is all, “Patton invited us to see a private screening of 'Ratatouille' on the Disney lot Sunday.” Ugh! FINE! I’ll go, but I won’t like it.So I went. And it SUCKED. No, of course it didn’t.

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These two girls will see you here next week?

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Maybe "Twincesses" wasn't ready to send to the 2007 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, but the twins sure were. Last week we made our sixth trip to the beautiful little French town near the Swiss and Italian borders. What fun! Usually our time is split between watching the latest independent short films and TV shows, drinking Kirs, and napping, but this year was special. London's

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Look, I know how much you adore reading about unfinished cartoons, but how do you feel about a not-only-completed-but-airing-on-TV-show?!?!?!??! Well take a gander! "Let's Fish" is premiering on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, and if you let the big-wigs know how much you love it on May 11th, it'll go to series. Holy poo!Click here! Oh please oh please! And vote on May 11th after 2pm!Perhaps

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With the music all recorded, what would be the step before sound mixing, you ask? Why, a final pass at editing! Chopping the scene where baby Jamima drunkenly berates Will Ferrell for not paying rent was a no-brainer -- but some cuts stung a little more. Rescued from the dumpster behind Six Point Harness and lovingly restored to the very best of our abilities, we present... Lost Scene.

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Last Tuesday our composer Mr. Uncertain came by to lay down the beats (pictured here with Barbara and also-twin/sound designer John Warrin at Esho Sound). We first met with his incomparable talents whilst performing together in the Velvet Hammer Burlesque troupe. While his ragtime pianoing skills are second to none, he also hit us with some funkadelic bass lines, hearkening back to our days in

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Woo-hoo! Yippee! Yayayayayyay!! After a week or so of retakes (more thanks to Dave Gerhard and Chris Martin), we finished a rough cut of Twincesses for an upcoming animation festival. It was a real nail-biter, with me and After Effects magician/beloved roomie Michael Jacobson fixing some last-second post-related weirdness before handing it off to Barbara for the Final Cut finish. Besides his

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Weeeeell, I wasn't going to post any more art from the show, but I think this background is just a little too wonderful. It's the coloring genius of 6PH East's Nick Lakiotes and Jason Aston -- pictured here warming their hands, snout and gin-blossomed nose. (Click for larger view.)xoxoVera

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Okay, I lied in the last entry - here's a little somethin'. Yum!xoxoVera

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Including today, I've spent what feels like a 396 hour week finalizing animation and comping the exported Flash scenes into After Effects with their backgrounds and camera moves. I'm so tired. But I love our show. I love our show because the animators put so much specialness into it. The little touches. The additions. The sheer toothitude. Monday, Barbara's putting all 97 scenes back into

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I SWEAR we had every intention of finally doing a burlesque dance, until a couple of sexi mexi stripping cowboys interrupted.We asked them nicely to leave.*Sigh* Why does it always have to end in Huracanrana Suicidas?

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1. Animation for Twincesses is heading for completion THIS WEEK, making it the busiest ever, since -- 2. February 13th, 14th and 15th, me 'n' the twin are debuting our first ever beautifully choreographed BURLESQUE DANCE for Lucha VaVOOM, the Mexican wrestling / burlesque / comedy extravaganza, which you can read about in --3. My INTERVIEW with the funny and charming Glasgow Philips, author of

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Why are these girls so gleeful? Because animation for Twincesses officially commenced on January 15th! All of our favoritest animators are working on it – Chris “Blick” Martin (who drew the above frame), “Kentucky” Dave Gerhard, Joe “Mutha Jack” Kossuth, Rob “Rednecks in Space” Lilly, Jaime “Jaimz 57” Velasquez and Michael “Freelancin’” Huang. Two dozen insanely cute scenes are already in our

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xoxoBarbara & Vera

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Given the popularity of adult-oriented animations these days, people are always asking if "Twincesses" is for the younger set. Of course it is! We love children, as is evident with this documentary we made last year, on location at Saint Aidan's Primary School in Hornsey, London, where actual British school kids shared their unique views on a popular holiday. Filmmaker ZZalgern0n calls it "an

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hobo + adorable + a Vera = gotta give a shout outxoxoVera

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With the animatic completed on October 6th (golly, do we wish we could show it to you, but some things gotta stay under wraps!), Twincesses took a brief hiatus as Six Point tended to some prior commitments. As of this week, however, the show is again moving full speed ahead! The aforementioned James, Chris & Zach were joined by Danforth France, Seth Cooper and Kerry Dwyer in Flashifying the

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If you’ve watched “The Legend of a Twin Princesses,” you know that the Kindly Old Timer lives in a box community behind an old sausage factory. But let’s get something straight: he’s no Hobby Hobo. Sure, he’s got a leaky roof over his head, and he’s not risking a stay at the crowbar hotel or the bone orchard with a train-hop, and he carries his brief-bindle to and from a job, but this in no way

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October 2nd we received final character color from Nick Lakiotes. This would be the last step before Flashifying everyone into animatable poppets. Nick is the Art Director over at Six Point Harness East - that's right, this studio is too formidable for just one coast.xoxoVera

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