Special Features

I tried to resolve this month to release some sort of special feature every week, to put it on all the socials, everywhere you can find TAPAS, as seen on our Linktree. But, even though there's a decent backlog of concept art and storyboards and stuff, it's been hard figuring out what to post. I'm trying not to be afraid of spoiling anything, trying not to tell myself that matters, and trying not to be self-conscious of the relatively low quality of concept art and storyboards, as it compares to final character art and final results such as the Irregular Fantasy! teaser. They're still very interesting, they'll just be more interesting when accompanied by their final version.

So, let's see what we're looking at, special features wise. Well, it's now been four years since the release of Better Yet? - every year I keep intending to do an anniversary special, and every year something gets in the way. Usually depression, ironically enough, but I'm hoping to prepare enough that I can do a fifth anniversary special, which involves LEGO minifigures of all the characters, which I had made last year, and a full-feature commentary/watch party, ideally with myself, Mason... and Adrienne, who wasn't available to commentate on release day or the first anniversary for medical reasons.

Mason's working on a follow-up, by which we mean just the next project written and directed by Mason, called I'm Telling Mom!, which he intends to really make into a play this time, while I've always maintained, okay, you can do that if you wish, but I think it should also be an audio play in the exact same format as Better Yet?, for consistency, it's what the fans will want.

Better Yet? is hovering at 294 hits on YouTube, which is ten more than its trailer has. Mason was always bummed out that the trailer has more hits than the actual project, and I was always like, why would it be any other way? That's how trailers work. But, no, apparently we've reached that point that more people have, in fact, clicked on the play itself than the trailer, so... I'm shocked, but I guess Mason got what he wished.

I've started working with Bass, a screenplay I was given by my Grandpa Larry before he died... I've considered that someday if we get big, we might shoot the movie in Denver, where it's set. Having gone over the first scene, I'm thinking even that will be a bit beyond our capabilities, but if we could convert it into a big audio drama and form it into a thematic trilogy... hey.

Moving on, I definitely want to give a shout-out to all the voice casts of the projects we've done. It's been a very long time since we did the voice recording for Keys & Kingdoms and Irregular Fantasy, and, outside of the Irregular Fantasy teaser, nobody's gotten to hear the work they did in its full, glorious context.

We're working so hard on finally getting the pilots out, and all the teasers and shorts that come before them. We haven't recorded the voices for the Irregular Fantasy pilot yet, I certainly hope we get the whole cast together again and so many more. And after the pilots, well, we intend to lay low a couple of years and just write the series, and write like mad for a long time before starting to self-adapt the series into the animated-comic format, so... might be a few years before we need the Keys & Kingdoms voice actors again, though I have been considering making the "educational shorts" about their world a feature for during the "writing like mad" portion...

And, finally... I've got kitties. It's just been me and Butter and Marmalade in this apartment for a very long time. Sometimes I wonder if they get bored. But I try to take some cute pics to share as often as I can.