City Behind the Moon!

Hey everyone. I am currently working on a new anime/sci fi adventure cartoon called "The City Behind the Moon"

It's very futuristic and what not.

Right now, it's almost a minute and thirty seconds long. I expect it to be around five to six minutes long. It's getting done at an unusually quick rate. Will be uploaded by the end of August!

Sorry for not as many posts on the jwbstudios channel. I have been Poppet crazed! :D

Summer Night

I am in space for 30 seconds at a time on Summer Nights. Floating. Flipping. Turning. Twirling. All in slow motion. Space. Outer space. Then the feeling begins to wane. I push it, the mirror surface wripples...then I am above the water of the pool, gasping for air. I love swimming on summer nights. I watch the blurry sparkling stars without my glasses on. The sky is a television, light images from the past coming to our eyes. It takes a long time for light from the stars to reach Earth. Such a strange place.

I float around some more. The blue light was on, making waves of blue move around on the pool floor. This makes me more excited for the arrival of Master Blue poppet. I can ask him about the blue light and how it works. I assume he know much about all that is blue. I think I will ask him first about the sky.

Before I went in the pool I lit the tiki torches and bug fires, and read Neil Gaimans "Neverwhere" by candle light. It was very peaceful but mosquitos kept invading despite the candles...I get the feeling often that they don't even work...

Well, either way, it was nice. I enjoyed it. I rescued a cricket that was drowning in the pool...but when I put him down I went to put my glasses on (they were already off, I was ready to go in) and he was gone....I get the feeling he will pay me back in the future in one way or another. I'll post when I think the debt has been paid.

After the pool I sat for awhile and just watched the sky...waited for a few stars to become present. Then I went inside, got pajamas on. Mind is clear, headaches gone, time to relax further and watch a movie with some popcorn and iced tea. Tonight has been my ideal Summer Night.

Summer

Summer is almost here. Tomorrow is the last full day of school, then two half days for testing. Then I will begin work on the 'Moon' animation, set for an August release at this point. I still need to start writing it...

The correct time to start the script hasn't quite presented itself yet. It will soon I think. Timing is everything. If I start a script when the idea isn't ripe enough in my head, it begins to spoil and then I don't feel like animating it anymore. Making animations is a very delicate process.

In the mean time I started working on a short 30 second ongoing animation that should be done soon...its a new Poppet animation featuring the "The End is Nigh" Poppet. It will have a meaningful message in it somewhere.

The Moon animation will utilize something I would never touch, normally. Techno music. I have been exploring the hideous world of hypnotic computerized songs and found one I like...but the animation will mostly consist of simple free downloadable loops edited together to avoid copyright claims. If only people would share their work, always. No matter. Thats about all for now...have a nice day. ^_^

New Direction.

I am taking this blog in a new direction. I will post more often. I will divide posts about official things and my own thoughts. The Poppet animation is done. I am very pleased with it. Lisa liked it, which was my main goal. The Poppets must be animated right or not animated at all! I got a surprise the other day, I asked author Neil Gaiman to watch, just to see what would happen. He saw it. He liked it. Made my day. Getting good response overall. If you havent already seen it, I posted a video with the link to a new channel I made for the Poppets, only. Enjoy.

Recent Developements.

SO. I am still in collaboration with Lisa Snellings, "Poppet Conducts and Orchestra" will be released soon. Animation is about...hmm. Sixty percent done? I have the music already edited, I have the sounds, I just need to record me whistling and finish animation and I am pretty done. THEN I am going to finish "It Don't Mean a Thing", the meaningful music video set to the song of the same name and takes place in the 30's/40's.
After that I may do light work with Alice in Wonderland, nothing special or guarenteed, but I will be most interested in the next real animation "The City Behind the Moon". Its about a boy who gets transported to the moon, and finds there is a CITY behind it. He meets a local city girl, who helps him try to find a way back home to Earth and they both run into the head of the Lunar Police Force, a robot, and he doesn't like them very much. So now it becomes a race against the clock to get the boy back to earth, or be jailed or worse by the corrupt robotic police officer who will stop at nothing to stop these law breakers. It's due to be released aroundthe anniversery of the real first steps on the moon in July.
After that it will APPEAR we are on hiatus but I will be getting started on the Halloween animations set for October releases. One will be a music video of the Haunted Mansions theme song "Grim Grinning Ghosts", animated to my interpretation of the Haunted Mansion attraction in Walt Disney World Resort.
The other Halloween animation is my next planned Poppet animation, " Poppet Sees a Ghost". But everything about it could change, its very up in the air at the moment. More updates will be released about it as they come along. Tomorrow I hope to release a poster for the current one "Poppet Conducts and Orchestra" so get ready! :-D
-J.W.B.

Music Videos, Poppets, The Moon, and other Things

Hello everyone. Here's the current animations and news!

1. I am currently in collaboration with Lisa Snellings, an artist and creator of the Poppets, interesting and mysterious creatures who have been here on Earth for a few years, but in the universe for many. You can purchase your very own Poppet here

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Strangestudios?page=1

2. Also, I have two animated music videos in production that are on hold until the poppet animation is complete. One is an oldies type music video called "It Don't Mean a Thing" and the other is an Alice in Wonderland music video, with music from the new movie. Its basically the book in five minutes time.

3. This summer I have an animation coming out called "The City Behind the Moon". I cant tell you more, but guess what it's about.

4. Once ALL of that is done, I will take a short break for a month or two, to have time to continue to learn how to use my new animation program. I do think I will continue to animate Poppets throughout that time though. I thoroughly enjoy animating and drawing them. It feels more like fun than work. :-D

THE AIR PIRATES: Nearing completion and coming soon!

Hi everyone. I present to you the first poster for : THE AIR PIRATES!!

I expect it to be out this weekend, or during the week at the latest. It is pretty rad so far. Here are some of the firsts for animations of mine in this one project:

FIRST walkcycle

FIRST free camera movements

FIRST 3-D plane panning

FIRST running cycle

FIRST rotoscoping shot

FIRST real multi soundtrack animation with dozens of sounds and voices

FIRST project with a plot to use score music that does NOT belong to Batman or Spider-man

AND MORE...!

So everyone, be on the lookout for this project. It's literally going to be my best and most original animation so far. THESE are the animations you can expect from J.W.B. in the future.

THE AIR PIRATES: Status Update

Hey everyone, My VERY FIRST animation using Toon Boom Studio 5 entitled "The Air Pirates" will be out in approximately one week. Yes everyone ONE WEEK. It will include more sound effects than any other animation I have done, more dynamics, better animation over all, my first walk cycle which isnt amazing but usable, LOTS of planes flying around and hopefully a good finale. The finale shots are really the last that need to be animated currently, MANY of the sound effects are in place and my lines are nearly done. So sit tight everyone, the Air Pirates is honing in on a release. Once this ones out animations will hopefully be shooting out much faster. I know theres been WAY too many long intervals between animations recently, and since the beginning of my account, Really. This is set to change, ESPECIALLY over the summer. Stay subbed, keep subbing, and be prepared for a totally new type of J.W.B. cartoon!

"REMODEL"

So J.W.B. Studios format is getting a MAJOR facelift. I now have an expensive and wondeful godly animation program called Toon Boom Studio 5, and a few new editing programs, and I am now awaiting the arrival of a drawing tablet to simulate paper drawing on the computer. From now on animations are going to come out MUCH faster and they are going to look much more original and better over all. There will be more music, some even original and non-soundtrack ripped, more sounds, and more ranges of voices and mine might even satisfy you audiance members because apparently people are saying its changed.

My new project is called "The Air Pirates" and features the darkly comical battle between an two old pirate captains, one human one robotic, and these pirate captains do not captain an ordincary crew. They captain a crew of helicopter riding bandits that rob the jewels and money of rich party goers in flying "blimp yachts". They fight, the "Air Police" gets involved and a chase ensues. Who will win in a fight that has no "hero"? We'll find out!

During that I will be working on my after christmas christmas animatio nthat is a sequel to "The Forgotten Ornament" featuring a big ornament named, you guessed it, Big Blue. Instead of being left in the box off the tree before christmas, he is tossed outside ON the tree AFTER christmas and Big Blue must battle the outside and other challanges to get back to the ornament box. A heartwarming tale, even if it does take place after christmas.

And After THAT I will FINALLY be animating my dream animation: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I have been waiting almost TWO YEARS to do this. I will be animating the book almost line by line and word for word, taking each chapter one at a time. The characters will all have new character and set designs of my own style, and the music of the hit Tim Burton Film of the same name based on the same book, :-). Remixed, of coarse.

Thats about all of the updates I have for now...excpect MUCH MORE animation updates to follow in the comic weeks.

Bad news

Well my laptop with all of my stuff on it has died. I have some stuff backed up,but not all of it. It has been sent away for repair where they may erase the hard drive which means the Halloween anmation. Dont worry, I can meand it and re edit it but still, the first cut was greatness. If everything survives the repair, It will be up asap, which shouldnt be TOO long after Halloween. Sorry I am releasing a Halloween animation after Halloween, just the way the cookie crumbled. :-(

BUT

Fear not, I am already planning for Christmas and am carefully approaching a project involving Poppets, these littl creatures I found online that i hope to buy and animate. Then Christmas will pass, and February I should have my nice shiny new animation program and I can FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY get back to work on Charlie and the Chocolate factory, which recently has undergone a change in style. It will look MUCH darker than Burtons adaption. I will post some scary short stories of mine here soon for all to read to make up for the lack of animation. :-)

Halloween animation status and more:

Hey people! Halloween animation is going great! I have the music all edited, and its more than half way edited and animated. It SHOULD be up next weekend! In fact, I am animating it right now! :-) After that I will begin the EARLY EARLY planning stages of the Christmas animations, including a script for Big Blue and getting figures and such lined up for Christmas Carol. If they come out with figures for the new Jim Carrey movie consider it 100% that I will attempt to get them all and use them. If not, there is still a CHANCE I might switch to doing Nutcracker, but nothings set in stone yet. Still waiting for what I am in the mood to do. But Halloween is going good and I hope to get that new animation program for christmas and all the 2-D projects I have lined up will get done. Soooo thats about it! Thanks and remember: STAY SUBBED! :-)

Halloween Animation!

Hey everyone! I am currently working on a short Halloween animation to be released soon, I hope. I know nothing about it myself, but know it will star some creepy Halloween decorations. More updates as they come in!

UPDATES

We are taking a break everyone, I will release a short halloween cartoon in October and then we will take a good two to three week break before starting work on our Christmas Carol remake, then The Forgotten Ornament sequel in January, and THEN hopefully I PRAY that I will have Toon Boom, and I will begin working on my HUGE original cartoons. The First will be the first episode of a Haunted Mansion mini series, which will be based on the Disneyland/World attractions backstory. Then I will be working on a project currently titled "The Air Pirates" and then either the next motion comic, or "The Rabbit at the Corner". That is our current plan, we hope you like it. Just stick around and DONT UNSUB. Just because we havent made videos in over a week doesnt mean "oh well then I guess its an unsub then". We are just TAKING A QUICK BREAK. Just started highschool, so give us a break for trying to get used to it. Until then, STAY SUBBED and watch our old videos at www.youtube.com/jwbclassics Thank you!

NEW Rest-of-the-year PLAN

Okay so I was filming Caped Crusader episode 3...and I decided I was having absolutely no fun doing it. I started to do some tests on paint...and I decided I was having absolutely no fun using it. So I did some research on some animation programs, because I desperately need somthing new. I am sick of batman and stop-motion, and sick of all the effort of MS paint. Finally thanks to a tip by Aaron Quinn (see the link to his channel on mine, fantastic videos!) I finally found an animation program I totally 100% want. The name? Toon Boom Studio 5. The problem? Its sort of 400 bucks, 300 when its on sale. So I asked the parents, and I am gonna save up for some of it because I feel like I should and I am gonna get it for -drum roll please- CHRISTMAS! Yay! So now because I am just sick of all the animating and want this Toon Boom so bad, I am just gonna take a nice break, get used to school once it starts up (gross!) and relax. AND I will be doing some logo work here and there if you need it. ASK FIRST. It is not guarenteed I will say yes every time. My first logo will be for Coopthecougar15 (Its almost done! Sorry its taken so long!). THEN once Thanksgiving comes, I am going to film Christmas Carol in like two or three parts, much less than the last ones, and release it asap. Then I take a quick Christmas break, get Toon Boom test it out, then January is my after-christmas christmas movie "Big Blue" the sequel to "The Forgotten Ornament". So once Christmas flashes by, I am going to be using Toon Boom for quite awhile and THEN I will get back to batman. Thanks everyone for the support and most importantly SUBSCRIBE! :-)

Out with the old.

Ok, so the jwbstudios has been cleaned up of the old suckish spiderman superman blah blah videos and have been put up on www.youtube.com/jwbclassics for your viewing enjoyment. Now jwbstudios looks clean, AND you get to still watch for fave old episodes!

Now jwbstudios has a new logo and will now be much better and I am going to try and take the channel much more proffesionally now. I very much so would like to become partner, and would like to create my own videos from my own ideas. So thats what I am going to do. No more spider-man is going to be made, and Caped Crusader has been shortened to 4 episodes to get it out of the way sooner. I am working on ep. 3 but things are moving slow. Could take awhile. In the meantime I am making more and more plans on what I am going to do when I get ToonBoom Studios 5 for or before Christmas. Until then, I will be going to school starting September 7th-ish and I will be just planning away. Then come Thanksgiving I will start animating Christmas Carol and have that out by December 15th-ish. Then January I will be practicing with Toon Boom and making the sequel to the forgotten ornament, Big Blue. So thats the plan. I plan on sticking with it. Enjoy it. Like it. Comment. Subscribe. :-)

Whats happening...

Ok, so here is whats going down right now and for the rest of 2009.

1. I am going to try and get Caped Crusader Episodes 3 AND 4 out by the end of september.
2. October I want to see if I can either do a fake trailer for a "Batman: The Long Halloween" movie, or animate the jokers first appearance in Batman History, I think I will be doing the first one but both will be done eventually.
3. Once November rolls around I am going to take a nice break for about the whole month, prepping for the Christmas Animations along the way. BIG STUFF planned.
4. December I am going to begin filming Christmas Carol using some of the same sets only fixed up, and using new sets. I am going to TRY and make it in three to four parts. Will be all be released BEFORE Christmas.
5. For or before Christmas I hope to get an animation program called TOON BOOM STUDIO that is the best ever and will make animating 50,000 times easier, so I will take a small break to fiddle with that, PERHAPS releasing tests.
6. January I will make my sequel to The Forgotten Ornament that takes place AFTER christmas, so it fits. lol. It's called "Big Blue"
7. Hopefully by the end of January or early febuary I will release the big SERIES FINALE of Caped Crusader.
8. After all of this is complete, I will be switching to full time Toon Boom stuff of my own creation. I am hoping this will also help with the motion comics, so the series may have the possibilty of being revived but chances are slight. I am definetly planning on animating jokers first appearance in comics though.
9. I plan on animating many of my stories using Toon Boom Studio 5 in the future. I MIGHT open a new account for them specifically and try and get them noticed.

P.S. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is post poned until I get Toon Boom Studio.

That is my official plan and I PLAN on sticking to it. If you have any questions comments or complaints message or comment though youtube. Thank you and PLEASE subscribe. I really, REALLY, appretiate it. I noticed some unsubs, please dont do it. I really want to become a Partner soon to help fund animations to make them even BETTER. Thanks.

Plans Change

Okay so here is whats going down with the animation schedule.

The Motion Comic series is CANCELLED. Okee? Good. Here is what I am going to be doing from here on in.

WHATEVER IF FEEL LIKE.

I am going to finich Caped Crusader while switching to cartoon paint animations of my OWN. That ME thought of. So the next thing coming out is a short to and half minute animation of mine called "The Teleporter". It will be out later today, I hope. Next I MIGHT start Caped Crusader, but pobably not as I have alot of ideas that I would like to animate. I am also working on getting -drum roll please- FLASH ANIMATION PROGRAM to make my life much much much easier. Though it is pretty hard trying to find a good cheaper version of it. If anyone knows a link to a buyable Flash 8 let me know. Alright...I think thats about it...seeya!

Cartoon Network and other things.

HELLO. I have some very sad news.
Cartoon Network has officially turned to garbage. I never, ever, even in the bakc of my mind at any point in my life EVER imaged CARTOON NETWORK to EVERR (!!!) Broadcast...LIVE ACTION SHOWS. that SUCK! I mean, I would be fine if like...it wasl ive action with cartoons MIXED in. But this stuff? TRASH. Absolute garbage. What happened to you Cartoon Network? What happened? The FANTASTIC olden days of Dextars Lab and Samurai Jack have vanished without a trace and have been replaced by...TRASH! STUPID kids looking for ghosts! NO! I mean, ghosts are cool, I am a semi-believer, BUT THIS ISNT LEGIT! Its just kids going into a basement hearing normal bumps and sounds! Its INSANE! I despise. Absolutely DESPISE the new Cartoon Network. What. the. HELL?!! CARTOON. Thats the big word in the CHANNEL's NAME!!!! Not REAL. CARTOON!!!!!!!!!!! I am so angry with this channel. I have not even so much as LOOKED at the channel in weeks. I am disgusted. Bad move cartoon network. very, VERY, VERRYYY BAD move. Nick too, I mean, I think that channel made a wrather good transition into sitcoms and live action. It ALWAYS had live action. But man, now its BAD. You cant turn that channel on without seeing Spongebob or iCarly. Thats ALL they play. What about the OLD SHOWS?!!? Legends of the Hidden Temple, Finders Keepers, All That. PLEASE! ANYTHING ELSE! T.V. SUCKS right now. I cant stand it. Disney Channel. I expect better, but of the three they are doing the best to me right now. At least they somewhat DIVERSIFY! I mean, that Wizards of Waverly place is really pushing it but man. Nick and Cartoon Network...where have you gone...

R.I.P. Cartoon Network.

P.S. I am now supporting this anti real life show thing for Cartoon Network. I posted the support pic. Look it up. Its on youtube.

ALSO...I might be changing ALOT of stuff in my animation schedule. Maybe even a....cancellation. I am so sorry. But my brain is just...too stressed for all that stuff. I need some relief.

The rest of J.W.B.'s plans for youtube RIGHT HERE!

Okay, so right now for us here at J.W.B. studios this is like...the beginning of the beginning of the end. I have written a schedule for us on youtube that will go on into next year, and end by next summer. After that I will regularly go onto youtube check up on the channel, give updates on things, occasionally post a little cartoon MAYBE here and there if I am bored. The truth is, all the good people on youtube are leaving (KowisAnimation, SM3VENOM, ect.) and it's gonna be pretty boring...so I made this plan for the rest of jwbstudios too. Don't worry guys, I still have quite a few months on youtube to go. So here is the schedule:

1. Write Script for CC episode 3
2. Release CC episode 3
3. Write and release CC episode 4
4. Amazing Spider-Man Motion comic Jameson news report
5. J.W.B. Behind the scenes
6. Amazing Spider-Man Episode 1
7. Write and release CC episode 5 (series finale)
8. Amazing Spider-Man episode 2
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
10. Christmas Animation (Christmas Carol re-make, Nutcracker, or other vote in poll!!!)
11. Amazing Spiderman episode 3
12. Short Break
13. Amazing Spider-man episode 4
14. Amazing Spider-Man Episode 5

After this, I will take a very, very, very long break. Possibly up to two months. Then I will begin to release more Amazing Spider-Man episodes and will also begin to write stories of mine that have been in my head for a very long time. They will not be shared online for fear of idea stealers, you know who you are.

I really appretiate the LOADS of support we have gotten these past two years. It's been quite a ride. Now it's time for that last loop-dee-loop. Once again, Thanks. Also, keep subscribing!! It would be pretty awsome to become partner and get some funds for an independent film...!!!!

SOME VERY IMPORTANT NEWS!

Okay everyone, theres a big change coming to J.W.B. Studios. Spider-Man, the stop-motion series is currently cancelled. There MAY be a finale Movie of it in the works involving the Sinister Six, BUT it is not official!! TAKING THE PLACE OF THE STOP-MOTION SERIES WILL BE: The Amazing Spiderman Motion Comic Series, which will be THE ORIGINAL comics in their original form animated exactly like the up coming Amazing Fantasy animating which will be considered the pilot if it is successful. There is an UNOFFICIAL episode name list below, as on the jwbstudios Channel, link above. ALSO there is a POLL!!! VOTE ON IT! We NEED your opinions on this. It will be out until a week after Amazing Fantasy is released, which is DAYS away. Thanks so much for all of your support, keep subscribing, and enjoy.

P.S. Old J.W.B. animations that got taken down will be re-uploaded in the coming weeks with fixed music!!

The Amazing Spider-Man Motion Comic Series

Season One Episode Titles:

-Amazing Fantasy #15 (Pilot/beginnning of series movie)

1. The Chameleon Strikes!

2. Duel to the Death with the Vulture!

3. The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer!

4. The Strangest Foe of All Time: Doctor Octopus!

5. The Strangest Foe of All Time: Doctor Octopus! (Part 2/Finale)

So Vote, send me messages, comment my channel, ANYTHING to give me YOUR opinion!!!

-J.W.B.