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Well Kids...big Day Saturday....


http://tommyrockix.com/splash.htm"

Phone call with our LA contact that is shipping around our screenplay.

So send along all that good mojo!

Been getting some good response, but funny we use the phrase 'as they race across the Galaxy to ...' and seems many people think we meant race -as in race cars / spaceships / contest.

Weird.

PS
Website is being completely re-done ( it is all flash as of now not very user friendly )- new site should be up in a few weeks.



PSS

If you have been following along books have been put on back burner as we focused our efforts and $$$ on pushing the screenplay. Got our US copyright a few months back as well.

Good Luck!

The site is looking pretty cool. It's cool to see many of the familiar characters are still around.

Best of luck!

Rich

very nice characters! It would be wonderful to see animation with them.
Welcome to this forum

Hi Humdinger! Great news and good to hear from you!
Best of luck with the project!

Froo

Awesome Website!

Always enjoyed your characters and it looks like you are giving them a bigger stage.

Looking good!

Great work Humdinger. Both on the models and images and on the business side of it. I wish you success.

Thanks all...

the call went very well all things considered.

One issue we always thought would arise was going to be the look and feel of the characters. With that, after the call yesterday - they are all going 'bye bye'.

As much as kids seem to like them some industry people have had some negative comments - though nothing too harsh. the word 'creepy' keeps getting tossed around.

Maybe down the road they can be re-exposed - but current plan over next month is to remove all of it.

Our contact thinks we have some serious potential with the story itself - but most producers/studios he has in mind about pitching the screenplay to are very much 'hands on' when creating look and feel.

Which is fine - as long as the story and characters are intact no worries. And they do not turn our lead into a blonde haired blue eyed boy wonder. Nothing against you Aryans... lol ... but some of the character design was very intential on our part, such as NOT giving tommy blonde hair AND blue eyes. They are brown like me...his creator.

As a good inside joke...

We are reworking the screenplay - as it was just way too long.

So this will be my fourth complete screenplay - too bad they have all been re-writes of the same thing!

LMAO!!

Down from 322 pages and 2 hours 40 minutes - to 170 pages 92 minutes.

On a unrelated note...

Major PC problems here last week.

If you are using XP - stay away from IE 8 - huge potential security issues in running on an XP OS.

Dell went to the extent of installing an application that will not allow IE 8 to be installed on my PC. Even if I try to - it will not let me till i remove the application downloaded and installed to stop it.

You may also consider dumping IE completely and working with Chrome.

Lastly, forget McAfee - darn thing detected the bug - claimed to have stopped it - but did not.

So bad I had to restore my machine to factory image partition. Twice in last 4 days - after never having to resort to such a thing in over 14 years of having dell PCs and internet access.

Also consider dumping Yahoo free web mail as many..many..many of the banner ads are infected. But..don't get me started on that !


xoxoxxxx

Great news. Also your experience re-teaches me (reinforces what I've already learned) a business lesson -- for business adapt and be flexible.

I like the look of the characters now although they look a bit strange, not creepy, to me. Strange is good since they are people like, but not the same as, current Earth people.

There is a benefit to the producers designing the look and feel. While you and your team (you have a team?) obviously have the talent to design characters, the producers have much experience and information about what sells and what appeals to various people. By being flexible about the character design you gain the benefit of their knowledge.

Your website is good too.

Finis wrote:Great news. Also your experience re-teaches me (reinforces what I've already learned) a business lesson -- for business adapt and be flexible.

Yup - in the end if we expect someone to lay out the kind of $$$ it would take to actually make this feature - we need to be open to changes - loss of some controls.

Finis wrote:I like the look of the characters now although they look a bit strange, not creepy, to me. Strange is good since they are people like, but not the same as, current Earth people.

I do like some of the work - though it was more about quantity than Quality at some point. And yes hardest part was making them human but not present day human - more evolved - but not too much - bigger head - eyes. While at the same time not wanting them to be cartoonist (Jimmy Neutron (no offense to Jimmy).

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Our 'team' is my co writer / creator and three others..

Me ... Myself and I.

Isn't a big team but seems to do a lot of content! What tool do you use?
I agree with Finis but now you explained I feel more comfortable, they look really cool!

Keep the good work and good luck!

Humdinger, wishing you great luck and fortune as you go forward with this cool project.

leonregis wrote:What tool do you use?

All done with TS 6.5 - 6.6 - All models rigged with Motion Studio - fully animate-able - the Hair is from Poser/DAZ 3D- All models low poly with 2 - 3 levels of SDS -

Space Time Morph 2 for the faces.

The secret to getting it all done? Kiss your 'life' goodbye!

Update - web site revisions and mo'

http://www.tommyrockix.com

Sadly our LA contact had a family member become gravely ill and as a result we still await his initial review of our abridged screenplay. - ( original screenplay running 115 hours has been trimmed to 90 minutes at his request )

Fortunately his input to this point along with many of you has lead to dramatic redirection in our approach regarding the website.

Have had a few new potential 'connections' reveal themselves over the last few weeks as well.

Also came across web based submission services that are used to 'pitch' screenplays. Pay for services - but costs are reasonable

We still hold out great hope and are set to speak with our LA contact next week. Fortunately the family member has had their condition improve in the last week.

In the meantime hope you enjoy the new look of the site - in particular this new site is no longer 100% flash making easier to go back and forth using the browser.

Enjoy, and feel free to make comments or suggestions!

PS

'Edge of the Potty Storytelling' is one of the greatest article titles ever .....ever !!!

xoxoxoox

Hey Humdinger. You have a typo here; the spelling of: characters: the 2nd 'c' is in the wrong place.

http://www.tommyrockix.com/web/index.php/en/screenplay"

Good to hear you and your team are still pushing the project.

Best of Luck!

Froo

froo wrote:Hey Humdinger. You have a typo here; the spelling of: characters: the 2nd 'c' is in the wrong place.

http://www.tommyrockix.com/web/index.php/en/screenplay"

Good to hear you and your team are still pushing the project.

Best of Luck!

Froo

Ah thank you , and a few more in that section - menu

Amazing how so many can look and miss it - but slap me for not using my spell check - you type the same word so many times you start to assume...

and when you assume

LOL

well had it right in the rollover text