This poor neglected Fwak! Blog…

Right now, Eddie and I are working late into the evenings, finalizing and preparing materials for Top Draw Animation (Philippines) who will be responsible for animating Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre. The teaser was cut this week and looks  pretty cool. In the meantime, more BG eyecandy  for ya! You may want to click on these pics for a closer-up (higher-rez) view:

[poster art outside arena]

[village swapmeet/arena]

[wall, Dragon Rojo residence]

[street, Goth Club sequence]

[interior of Goth Club]

[test of WWXXX Arena interior]

Artwork copyright Fwak! Animation

OK. Back to work…

Apologies for the lack of updates; Los Campeones is taking every minute of our waking life, which means other aspects of Fwak! get neglected.  On the plus side, animation is moving ahead, and we are producing our first teaser for the movie with Goodspot.  The teaser will be hitting movie theatres in Mexico next month, and we will organize a Web-friendly version as soon as we can.

by Eddie Mort
using Flash 8 and (Creaturehouse version) Expression 3.

Lucha 101 : Lots of eye candy in the first instalment!

‘Noir City’ at The Egyptian Theater. Going to see the Sam Fuller Double tonight.

“Tomorrow Is A Drag” - Beat poetry from High School Confidential

I haven’t seen it. But I’ve been told that it’s got all the good stuff like action, drama, love triangles, rebellion and old Los Angeles.- Lili

It
was really tough deciding which segments from Los Campeones to share on a public blog. We
didn’t want to give too much away of the story, or reveal cool wrestling-action
bits that might be better enjoyed within proper context… Here are some grabs from scanned storyboards/animatics.

“Sorpresa vs Abuela Extremo” from Act 3- storyboard drawings by Rafael.

This is pretty cool! (via boingboing)

L: Eddie Mort directing Lux; R: From the sound booth looking out

So
we have accomplished something quite amazingly ambitious this week. We
have just recorded over one thousand lines of dialog for an entire
feature movie in the space of two days. It was an incredibly tight
schedule because we naively assumed that we could fit everything in
and that it would be a breeze… Instead, there were times when we were
almost pulling our hair out, stressed, disorganized, wondering if we
were going to get through it all, and well, we did!

Thank you to the entire team and cast for a magnificent effort. Thanks also to Jim Cherry (Prod. Coordinator), Phofo (Music Director) and Chris (Sound Engineer) for their patience and for putting up with my snoring flatulent dog in a small airless room for so many hours.

We had a great cast too, and it was fun hearing the characters come to life. We present to you the main cast of Los Campeones de La Lucha Libre:

And thank you also to the very entertaining gang who provided additional/crowd/monster voices: Keith Rainville(writer of Los Campeones), Rafael Navarro (Storyboard artist), Linda Gamboa, Loretta P., Tilly Duran, Wes Massey, Jim Cherry, Phofo and Dave Buscemi.

The
next two weeks are going to be intense as Eddie and I will be putting
together the 70-minute animatic (storyboards + dialog tracks combined)
in preparation for the Animation stage of production.

• The Ray Harryhausen Creature List. This is very cool. Click on the Creature names for video clips.
• Marcos Vilarinyo – The history of photography using LEGO characters.
• Full Moon Clay Co. ceramic sculptures
• Stylehive - Designy-shopping inspiration; this site is constantly updated by members.
• Vera Brosgol’s illustrations  Especially love the sideshow characters.
  
• Gipi: Comics and Illustrations.  I love these Storie Verticali .
• The 20-2-40 Style Syndicate. 1920s-’40s Culture, music and fashion
• The Woman Who Thinks Like A Cow (Google Video). I am reading a book by Dr Temple Grandin right now… Fascinating!