CLOWN VERSUS MONKEY

CvM masterplan#9-a

2012-02-06T10:19:00.001-05:00

Addendum!

So it takes me about 4 hours to do ten seconds, that is all 15 steps.

It's going to be a 60 minute film.

24 hours to do a minute

1440 hours to finish the movie.

Do five seconds a day of movie (two hours work).

5 seconds / 3600 seconds = 720 days

Almost two years to finish this, less the 10 minutes I have finished.

600 days to finish the movie. Almost two years. Wee-Hoo!

I guess I need to make a premiere date and try to cram it into that.

We do need to factor in the Jonas element. But that is another day.

Hmmmm.

Clown Versus Monkey: Masterplan #9

2012-02-06T09:48:00.001-05:00

SO this morning started the master plan to finish this film. It has been the clicking time bomb in my mind, the nagging pink elephant that wakes me up in the middle of the night and berates me. I can use all sorts of reasonable excuses why the film has been delayed, but none of them allow me to sleep easier. So much has happened in life since I started the film. Again, you start the film as one person, and by the time it is finished, you are someone completely different who barely recognizes the person who started the process. I feel like I'm burying someone with each project, some former version of myself. Making a film sort of destroys you and makes you into someone different. At least it does for me, but my things take years to produce. It is probably me just getting older as I work on this stuff. It is sort of like purging and getting things out of your system so you can go about your life with out these little fixations coloring everything you see.

Alas, here are the numbers:

48 total scenes

14 completed

34 scenes to go

7 easy

9 kinda tough

18 WTF was I thinking, am I a masochist, no really, why!!!!????

So the basic process is this, in basic order, with little stars showing the level of pain.

* 1. place the dialoge - this is done for all the scenes already (easy)

** 2. put characters on the time line - we have all the scenes logged, it is just dragging them over (kinda tough)

** 3. make motion loops for the characters (easy, time consuming)

* 4. place the backgrounds (soooo easy)

** 5. position the characters on the background (kind tough)

** 6. draw the props - 90% are drawn, I keep finding new ones to create (easy, time consuming)

** 7. animate the props (easy, fun, time consuming)

*** 8. chroma the monkeys and clowns (hard, time consuming)

*** 9. chroma the clown patterns (f'n hard, and f'n time consuming, what was I thinking?)

**** 10. making sure the characters kinda interact (really hard)

* 11. add sound effects (easy)

* 12. add music -all music is composed and ready (easy and fun)

** 13. make close ups (kinda tough)

*** 14. add any blood, guts, electricity, visual effect (kinda tough and time consuming)

** 15. compile into a movie - this will actually be the easy part, I'm just going for a visual flow. (kinda tough, time consuming)

*** 16. let it go (hard and time consuming)

So that is about 16 steps per scene, and depending on how many elements, it gets more complicated, the gigs build and the computer goes slower. But at least it seems like something I can do now. I just need to find a way to make the more painful parts (steps 8, 9, 10) less heavy in my mind.

So I'll say 15 steps (dialogue already edited), and so 15 * 34 = 510.

So if I do one step a day, it will only take me a year and a half to finish this. :)

I should have done this math a while ago.

FIGHT EVIL
SD

Clowns

2011-12-15T20:04:00.001-05:00

So in the creation of this flick, I have been making peace with clowns, all things clowns, and what clowns mean to me. Having always related to monkeys, I had a deep seated distrust of clowns, and never liked being in close proximity to them.

My views have changed.

Why? Having a child can really rip you apart. There is great joy but also terrible worries and stresses and the world tips and turns upside down on a regular basis. My boy Cameron has been undergoing a lot of tests lately for his "weird kid behaviors", and so there is constant blood being drawn, and samples being taken. It is very stressful to him and my wife and I. Sometimes we go to Scottish Rite Children's Hospital to have the tests taken.

This hospital is geared for kids, and it isn't the cold cruel antiseptic world you usually experiance. There are bright colors and gigantic train sets and aquariums everywhere.

Look, I'm not going to be eloquent here. There are some really sick kids out there who are going through some tough stuff. I ran into some clowns at Scottish Rite who were entertaining a little girl who was hooked up to some psychotic monitoring devices and who's legs were bent up, she sat in a big wheelchair, and these two clowns were doing their best to cheer her up.

I'm just saying, the kid broke a smile, and her caregiver said that it was the first time she had seen her smile in months.

MONTHS!

Monkeys, where were you man.

I'm changing charities. If you buy a copy of the movie, the money goes to the organization that provides the performers to these hospitals.

I don't care that hipsters hate clowns (actually I love that), I don't care that Patch Adams was a stupid movie. Don't care. Just don't. Clowns are anarchists. That's what I've learned from working on this movie. Monkey's are all "monkey see monkey do". Sure you get a Gacy every now and then. But I don't care. Don't care. Don't.

Charity changing. http://www.bigapplecircus.org/community/clown-care.aspx

SD

Clown Versus Monkey: Back Alley Beatdown

2011-11-14T12:35:00.000-05:00

DROG/BLOG: Back Alley Beatdown Framegrab

2011-11-14T11:24:00.000-05:00

DROG/BLOG: Back Alley Beatdown Framegrab: You seen her! You SEEN HER PUNK!!!

clown baby aquarium03.mov

2011-11-13T20:39:00.000-05:00

10 Things You Must Know About Clown Versus Monkey

2011-10-30T18:28:00.002-04:00

1. It's Halloween and the movie is finished!

2. Just kidding.

3. I did my traditional last week of October vacation and locked myself in a small room, ignored telephones, friends, family, and hygiene, and now I am please to announce that I am a whole half scene closer to being finished!

4. Note to self: This is not operating in mind time, but in sticky reality time. Clown Monkey Time goes by a lot faster then People Day Job Time.

5. I spent the week animating baby clowns in an aquarium.

6. Borrowing a new scanner that is like a wand I wave over the pictures and upload them, and then my computer crashes and I drive to Sonic and drink a Pumpkin Pie Milkshake and then fill the empty cup with tears and sadness.

7. I am seeing the film not as a film, but as a slow stream of visuals based on a them that will eventually be collected and arranged in a film and book. But it isn't about the traditional "finishing the movie" How boring. What the hell is a movie anyway? It is about the moments that condensate onto the idea. Like a cold bottle of coke. Coke = Clown Versus Monkey, Updates = wet glass, Finished movie = sponge bath.

8. This whole thing is sort of inspired by the terrible movie Speed Racer, where I sat there going "what a terrible movie" while simultaneously going, "what an awesome series of Trapper Keepers".

9. Look they still make Trapper Keepers. Maybe I can release this movie as a series of Trapper Keepers. http://www.mead.com/meadstore/catalog/category.jsp?categoryId=Trapper_Keeper_MEAD&pageName=catPage&rootCatId=Brands_MEAD&isSubCategory=true&catId=Trapper_Keeper_MEAD&isEqual=&prodId=&parentId=
10. To the true believers who have bought a copy of the movie, don't fall into despair and disillusionment yet, Clown Versus Monkey grows stronger by the day, and it's love for you with it.

BONUS - I had another "moment" uploading on YouTube, but it got chunked up, so it's coming, baby clowns in a collection aquarium coming soon.

city street with clown baby aquarium and shredder

2011-10-27T12:24:00.000-04:00

04_31_cube_2_workprint.mov

2011-10-26T16:02:00.001-04:00

BABY CLOWNweb2.mov

2011-10-26T16:02:00.000-04:00

phone prop

2011-10-24T20:22:00.001-04:00

01 workprint

2011-10-24T14:11:00.000-04:00

Hamster Farm workprint

2011-10-24T13:06:00.000-04:00

so these are quick and dirty renderings of the scenes, because I'm wasting too much time trying to optimise this stuff. Everything will be shiny come the final render.

Remember Me Eddie? When I Killed Your Brother I Talked JUST..LIKE..THIII...

2011-10-16T18:15:00.000-04:00

I love this. And I love YouTube being awesome.

Monkey in the Garden of Good and Evil - work print

2011-10-16T17:50:00.000-04:00

Clown Versus Monkey Nightmares - Now With More Clown Action!

2011-10-02T23:28:00.000-04:00

Clown Vesus Monkey, talk talk talk

2011-09-18T20:01:00.000-04:00

in the hopper, rerendering scene 11,

2011-09-05T14:41:00.000-04:00

prepping layers for Jonas

Clown Versus Monkey Talk TV

2011-09-04T20:21:00.000-04:00

Tonight's Special Guest: Bonzo

2011-08-28T18:17:00.000-04:00

We are all Bonzo.
ps- these thirteen seconds are taking all day
SDROG

TEN NEW NEW NEWS ABOUT CLOWN VERSUS MONKEY!

2011-08-18T13:57:00.001-04:00

Long time coming, but here we go!

1. Firing on all cylinders. Having a great work flow with Jonas Ferreara. I gather the materials and process the layers, and he puts them together and renders them up.

2. I have had some call to arms, still need a sound editor to place sound effects and mess with sound levels. If you have an editing program and would like to through down, let me know!

3, The other missing link is some one to add blood splats and lighting into the shot. Two necessities in life,

4. The dropbox is working like a charm, we are all pulling from the cloud, the project files are in space, making it so much easier then driving footage all over town. FUTURE!

5. Even with the 2 day gigs, now that the kids are in school I have this pristine silence in the morning to process the footage, it is a bizarre feeling.

6. Also, something about the project is just clicking now, the rendering, the workflow, how the characters should move. It wasn't coming together in my head until suddenly, the switch flipped and I understood how it should go. Jonas F. has been invaluable on this.

7. We have two rendered scenes to show, both need some sound tweaks and a prop animated, so expect a preview of those soon.

8. By the way, the motion capture on After Effects is best if you use little ping pong balls with x's on them as tracking points. Other then that it is crap.

9. I gave Jonas his first clown footage this morning!

10. If you want personalized emails on the progress, shoot me your request to clownvsmonkey@gmail.com. Also get on our fanpage at facebook! CLICK HERE!

FIGHT EVIL
SDROG

Monkey in the Garden of Good and Evil

2011-08-14T21:01:00.000-04:00

Just in from Jonas Ferreira, the beloved editor! Give this guy a round of applause!

Monkey Talk TV

2011-08-10T10:20:00.002-04:00

the debate rages on

Team Formulating

2011-07-18T16:46:00.001-04:00

Have some awesome people coming in on this

a nice flow in the air

here is a piece of advise from Uncle Sammy

-To fully embrace the monkey, you must set the chicken free.

Fight Evil

Traction

2011-07-18T16:41:00.001-04:00

Finally getting some headway, a ten things coming soon!

A short interview with Sam Drog, director of CvM

2011-06-20T17:23:00.000-04:00

Where you been Sam?

-Been trawling.

How goes the movie?

-Been slow, but got a new plan.

Another one?

-Shut UP!!!

Okay, what’s the plan?

-Got some new talent signing on. A new work flow.

About time.

-I’ll kill you.

pretty much gotta be cool

2011-04-10T11:50:00.000-04:00

CLOWN VERSUS MONKEY: you got shrieker

2011-03-30T12:04:00.000-04:00

Clown Versus Monkey: Gerbil Jam

2011-03-14T07:26:00.001-04:00

Clown Versus Monkey: Call Me NOW!

2011-03-14T07:26:00.000-04:00

Clown Versus Monkey: Call Me NOW!

2011-02-12T13:27:00.000-05:00

a frame grab, why be lonely?

Clown Versus Monkey Versus Hamster Farm

2011-02-05T10:23:00.000-05:00

where clown dealers get their hamsters

yes yes

2011-02-03T04:09:00.000-05:00

this is inspiring

Beneath Clown Versus Monkey

2011-01-17T04:28:00.000-05:00

Clown Versus Monkey Nightmares

2011-01-12T10:27:00.000-05:00

Ten Rules for this Editing Session

2011-01-11T17:24:00.001-05:00

1. it's all graphic

2. it's all squish

3. it's all liquid

4. it's all cranked up

5. it has nothing to do with me

6. Pandora at all times

7. Time stamp the scenes

8. spreadsheet it all

9. don't worry about the sync.

10. easy scenes only.

the work flow

2011-01-05T17:49:00.001-05:00

1. open scene

2. place background

3. place audio guide track

4. sync monkey motion to guide track

5. sync clown motion to guide track

6. place monkey in frame against background

7. place clown in frame against background

8. place clean dialog over temp track

9. change monkey color

10. punch out clown body on separate timeline against clown pattern

11. bring in clown timeline

12. key out clown green screen

13. key out monkey green screen

14. place props

15. place sound effects

16. render scene

easy

CVM, FIVE Things You Should Know

2011-01-02T10:25:00.001-05:00

1. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all where unrealistic release dates, (shocker!) but this thing is epic, it has a "look", and it is specific, and all that stuff slows the process down.

2. All the footage is up on dropbox for editors to download and work on. If anyone wants to hammer out a scene, we have 46 to choose from.

3. Jonas Ferreira is hammering together the dance-off ending credit sequence and it is beyond all I could have dreamed.

4. A big slow down is just letting go oof the footage and working through the language barrier of what I'm thinking. Plus I'm used to holding up in a dark room for a year and putting these things together. This time out I just do not have that luxury.

5. The goal is to have it out by the end of March.

on the set

2010-12-17T04:21:00.001-05:00

Super Detailed Storyboard

2010-12-13T20:45:00.001-05:00

So hours and hours go into these things...

Larry King Monkey Pic two

2010-12-06T18:25:00.001-05:00

tweek tweeky tweek tweek

Larry King Monkey Pic

2010-12-06T16:47:00.000-05:00

An Exclusive One on One interview with clown spiritual leader, Bonzo.

Clown Versus Monkey Infomercial Complete

2010-11-11T11:58:00.000-05:00

CvM Update!

2010-11-01T13:48:00.001-04:00

Hello Awesome Beautiful People who are in the Clown/Monkey Cult.

So I didn't make the release date, but who knew making a pseudo animated feature would be so labor intensive! Sometimes you have to smash your head into reality to find out where it exists.

Thank you to everyone who was super cool who contributed to the project or bought a copy and made 2010 a really vibrant and creative time in my life. Even if you just humored vague emails that talked about how much stuff I was going to send you but never did, thanks for smiling and nodding. Everything is in an organic constant state of evolution, and sometimes invalid before I'm done typing it out.

I am hammering away for a turkey day release.

All the pieces are in, there is just A LOT of sandwiching to do and then a big render.

… and there is the sound mix which I will be stalking Jonas once its time.

But You Tube will keep you in the loop until the premiere.

JOHN by order of SAM

Clown Versus Monkey Infomercial

2010-10-31T20:44:00.000-04:00

Clown Versus Monkey in SPACE!

2010-10-31T11:10:00.000-04:00

CVM Inflences

2010-10-24T14:58:00.001-04:00

William Burroughs

Monkey Horror Movies

Fritz Freleng

Clown Horror Movies

Robert Altman movies

2010-10-21T13:31:00.001-04:00

Schedule and budget for next 9 days

YARKONI FLOOD!

2010-10-20T17:38:00.000-04:00

Here are a ton of backgrounds! Yarkoni is a drawing machine!

freak'n awesome!

2010-10-18T11:27:00.001-04:00

Two portholes

2010-10-18T10:12:00.001-04:00

Monkey at the mirror

2010-10-18T10:11:00.001-04:00

Monkey bathroom

2010-10-18T10:05:00.001-04:00

Motion stuff

2010-10-18T10:03:00.001-04:00

Bedroom of a married monkey couple

2010-10-18T09:11:00.000-04:00

Wes Ward drew the Oval Office!

New Yarkoni

2010-10-12T17:38:00.001-04:00

Sad ruined monkey childhood revisted!

Clown Versus Monkey 4U!

2010-10-10T20:42:00.000-04:00

Fractals! from Jeff Harden

2010-10-09T13:38:00.001-04:00

To be used for clown suits. SD

Music Samples!

2010-10-05T20:40:00.001-04:00

Cry Little Sister at the unholy awesomeness of this!

Clown Versus Monkey Sample Track!

Clown Versus Monkey tracks coming in. I don't know how much more he will want to add or remove, tweek and what not, but Corey Murdoch of Handsome Sweater is rock'n it!

Fractals Clown Suit

2010-10-05T20:03:00.001-04:00

Jeff Harden, who was sound editor on Zombeak, sent in his first fractal, just an experiment, but will be the direction we are going in for the clown costume pattern!

deminsions

2010-10-05T12:53:00.001-04:00

RBG color
PNG format
5100 x 2880
600 pixels/inch

A BOX!

2010-10-02T03:34:00.001-04:00

where brain hamsters are stored. Urp! Thanks Jimmy Lee Smith

props coming in!

2010-10-01T11:01:00.001-04:00

MORE PROPS FROM THE FOSKEY-MAN!

2010-09-26T18:08:00.001-04:00

Movie logged, we are comfortably behind schedule and thus! premiere on 10/30/10 is still on. SD

cvm pipes test

2010-09-25T03:31:00.001-04:00

Awesomeness from Jimmy Lee! Pipes where the inner workings of clown monkey culture takes place.

2010-09-23T09:50:00.001-04:00

Off this weekend! Have three sites lined up for Zombeak reviews and working CVM, this weekend will show if I can

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2010-09-17T10:35:00.001-04:00

Props are finished! thanks to Will, my neighbor who got pulled into the vortex of clowns and monkeys.

shelly house redux

2010-09-15T18:59:00.001-04:00

Where party clowns get punished.

NEW FROM TRACY Y!! Monkeys can never go back!

Go ahead, let it out. WEEP!

SDrog

shelley house #1 preview

2010-09-14T21:38:00.001-04:00

Where little monkeys have happy little monkey childhoods.

From Tracy Y

this is a replica of the house i grew up in (my mom provided the reference photo) -- in a tiny Iowa town

be HAPPY!

Sdrog

BRAIN HAMSTER!

2010-09-10T10:10:00.001-04:00

it's forming, from RORY BINKS! UKs Favorite Son.

HALF EATEN HAMSTER HORROR!

2010-09-01T18:01:00.001-04:00

From Rory Binks, who is BTW, UKs favorite son.

Doc Office

2010-08-31T23:42:00.001-04:00

Next.

Howling Box Hamster.mov

2010-08-31T22:02:00.000-04:00

2010-08-30T14:53:00.000-04:00

Scene from premiere of cvm where everyone went insane and nearly exploded into a cloud of happiness and cinematic euphoria!

Box Hamster Picture

2010-08-30T12:47:00.001-04:00

From Rory... the wailing box hamster commeth!

and I have a new prop doodler on board, Will in the house. He's my neighbor, and he may lay down some reverberation guitar from the wastland ala Dead Man soundtrack type stuff for me to add into the mix. But he's drawing the rest of the props! Not to many left to do, so we are on schedule!

And we finished the rest of the voices in the booth yesterday. All that is left is to start getting the footage out to editors. AND I NEED A FOLEY ARTIST!

Rock on Rockers!

2010-08-29T18:41:00.001-04:00

Got the last bit of dialog recorded, and the ramblings of "the shreeker", almost finished with prop drawings.

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Yarkoni Strikes! park at night

2010-08-24T10:32:00.001-04:00

Can you handle the awesome. Where monkeys are chased by flying carousels.

2010-08-23T19:04:00.001-04:00

Thunderdome for hamsters

Rerecorded the Voices!

2010-08-23T17:07:00.001-04:00

Yesterday! Will get the last one next Sunday, but 99.9 of the voices are in there, now to do a little sound editing. Snip Snap! It was a long day, went from 11:00am until 9:30, but we shot some wood chipper death scenes and then crammed people into a sound booth and recorded dialogue and wails of death and distruction. The last ten minutes of this film will be a cartoony gorefest!

2010-08-23T10:36:00.001-04:00

The latest unicorn diary

Tumor Clown

2010-08-22T08:37:00.000-04:00

the tumor clown grows

2010-08-16T22:38:00.000-04:00

beware! animation coming soon thanks to RORY BINKS!

2010-08-16T14:16:00.001-04:00

Precision level

Fwd: Drawing of Tumor Clown

2010-08-16T12:01:00.001-04:00

From UKs favorite son RORY BINKS!

Binks is the name, rocking animation is his game.

This is the skeleton that will form into the horrific TUMOR CLOWN!!!!

2010-08-13T16:56:00.001-04:00

Sad flower greenhouse

2010-08-12T15:33:00.001-04:00

Docs office

2010-08-12T14:59:00.001-04:00

Trendy flat, new tv, old tv

2010-08-12T14:57:00.001-04:00

Sewer pipes, hamster box, seedy hotel

Locations i forgor to mention

2010-08-10T09:52:00.001-04:00

1. Inside the hamster box

2. Punchy's nasty apartment

3. TV set #1 (punchy's rundown set)

4. TV set #2 (prestons's sleek widescreen)

5. TV set #3 (moms nice for 1960's set)

Poster Concept

2010-08-09T16:48:00.001-04:00

From the Rorinator! UK's favorite son!

2010-08-09T11:11:00.001-04:00

New location concepts

THE MONKEY LAB!

2010-08-08T21:27:00.001-04:00

New from Tracy Yarkoni, the amazing monkey lab, check out that hand!

2010-08-08T10:51:00.001-04:00

Snapping clown head - dead

2010-08-08T10:22:00.001-04:00

Tumor clown

2010-08-08T10:04:00.001-04:00

Evil snapping baby clown

final spaceship

2010-08-06T10:04:00.001-04:00

I love how the phone is hanging!

2010-08-05T19:29:00.001-04:00

Talk show, Primate Importance

2010-08-05T16:24:00.001-04:00

Talk show, Primate Importance

Cast of Monkeys

2010-08-05T14:10:00.001-04:00

Anchor monkey

authoritarian voice of the state

Arthur

disgraced Politian turned Mr. Mom

Audience voices

infomercial audience

Bats

insane neurotic monkey prone to violence

Captain Jones

egotistical space explorer

Collector

Carney like barker type, gatherer of clown babies

Dial Up Monkey

sexy dial a date model

Dial Up Monkey Announcer

selling the sizzle

Donna (Mom)

Preston's evil status obsessed mother

Emcee

Announcer at the Tiki Club

Feces Spreader

a presidential aid doing the best they can

General Monkey 1

one war hungry monkey

General Monkey 2

another war hungry monkey

Jenny

teen girl, gets abducted

Jerry

teen, who is too slow

Larry King

the monkey version

Lucille

nice teen girl, abducted by clowns

Max

middle school movie geek

Monkey Victim

screaming and disemboweled

Nurse Monkey

assists in hamster blending

Page

getting the president to sign bizarre documents

Paper Page

shredding paper in the oval office

Park Dutchman

fading TV star

President

desperate to find a solution to the clown problem

Preston (2 years old)

numb with shock therapy

Preston (17 years old)

caught with clown paraphernalia

Preston (21 years old)

hip, but with an embarrassing rash

Preston (36 years old)

stuck in an oppressive job

Preston (40 years old)

losing his monkiness

Professor Monkey

wise panel expert

Psychiatrist

witch doctor, interprets the ramblings of mad clowns

Raymond (Doctor Monkey)

bitter old doctor who has lost everything

Ron

jerk date of Shelly

Secret Service Agent

dedicated

Sergeant Monkey

fighting for the space program

Shelly (13)

creepy girl

Shelly (30)

creepy woman

Shelly's Mom

wants the best for her daughter

Spokes Monkey

sales anti-laughter gear to monkeys

Stage Manager

five minutes!

Steve

throws explosive pooh

Well Dressed Monkey

mysterious figure with a sack

Tiffany

another abducted teen

Various Background Monkey Kids (about 3 total)

playing happy

Various Cubicle Monkeys (about 4 in total)

busy at work

Various Monkeys passing on street (about 8 total)

got stuff to do

Various Tiki Club Patrons (about 8 in total)

out on the town

Super Awesome Space Capsule

2010-08-05T10:02:00.001-04:00

Where Space Monkeys do their thing.