Update 10/28

This year, Halloween is anything but scary for us here at Moving Box. Between Olympus Burger, Chalk Outlines, Java, and Mike Brindisi, the studio is more exciting than ever before.

Mike Lazzo of Comedy Central’s Adult Swim wants to see the pilot for Olympus Burger, so we’re putting together a press kit for him. Chris is returning to all of the source files of Olympus Burger, fixing any problem he ever came across. He is adding new music composed by our very own Dave Livingston, including Joe Zohar’s smash hit, Dewey Dewey. The most exciting part is that Chris is reanimating the pilot to a true widescreen 1920 X 1080 HD video.

The first trailer of Joe’s Chalk Outlines is coming soon. All but one or two shots are complete, and the film is in for sound design touchups with Ryan Mauk. Joe is working hard with Nicoli Schwiep and Liz McLelland to finish the Rotoscoping for the film.

Matt Lenz is finishing up the lip-syncing for Java. The front shots are complete and the only thing left in this fun for anyone film is a few profile shots.

In addition to all of this, Dave is working hard with Mike Brindisi and the New York Rock. The group has been in and out of the studio for a few weeks now. There are only a few songs left to record guitar on and the album is pushing ahead.

Possibly the coolest thing going on at the moment is the show reel being compiled for the Olympus Burger press kit. A show reel is roughly 20 seconds of each project Moving Box has completed, chronicling the last year of our progress. The show reel will be released online and will include Java, Chalk Outlines, Olympus Burger, Repentance, Bacon Samurai, Purgatory Pizza, Girls will be Girls, and a selection of documentaries.

Stay Tuned.

Magazines & Cruel Jokes

The May issue of Video Maker Magazine, where our cartoon, Bacon Samurai, won animation of the year has hit news stands everywhere. Wright's name was left out as the creator by mistake, so we'll give him a shout out here while we wait for the correction in an upcoming issue.

We also found this a little while ago. Its called Spider by Blue-Tongue Films, a small group of film-makers based in Australia. Enjoy it, as well as all their other work.

Bacon Samurai wins at Video Maker Magazine

BACON SAMURAI created by Wright Rickman and produced by Chris Davidson has won Video Maker Magazine's 20th annual video content for BEST ANIMATION.

More info as we know more. Our friends over at OurStage.com entered Bacon Samurai for us.

Wright Talks About Yams

It's been a while, but we have a new cartoon, "Wright Talks About Yams!"


Wright, the guy behind Bacon Samurai, teaches you the difference between sweet potatoes and yams.

It only took us three days (and the webcam was not turned off once for the entire duration, we have 3,122 pictures) and we managed to put a fight scene in a non-fiction film. Awesome.


Watch it over and over at Newgrounds!

- Wright

DailyMotion loves Bacon!

It just keeps getting better! DailyMotion.com has just featured Bacon Samurai on the top spot on their home page, giving us that big f*ck off block for all to see.

Bacon Samurai FEATURED on DailyMotion!

This is exciting! Bacon Samurai has been featured on Daily Motion's Film & TV Home page.

Bacon Samurai looks better on break!

Hey, Chris here, just uploaded Bacon Samurai to Break.com. Looks way better than metacafe's version, also the aspect ratio is right. Still feeling out the best video site for animated content, metacafe isn't too into it (although do-it-yourselfer KipKay is making a killing). I'm hoping the 18-35 year old male audience that Break servers might be more into this kinda thing. Only time will tell.

"Ew, Fry! Is this a carton of cheese behind your bed?"
"Well, it used to be milk, but ya know. Time makes fools of us all."
-Futurama


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BACON SAMURAI

Oh man I can't believe it's actually here. Yes the rumors are true, Bacon Samurai has made it off of Newgrounds.com and on to the rest of the Internet! If you have an account, please DIGG IT!


Bacon Samurai

Bacon Concept Sketch #1

Here is round one of new Bacon Samurai concept sketches for the game as well as the series. Today we have Bacon in all his glory.

He may not look that different from the trailer, but this new design has a more detailed face, new belt, and different proportions (longer legs, bigger feet, and larger arms). His side view also doesn't look like crap this time, which is good as this is the view people will be seeing the most of in the game.


I should have more up this weekend, so check back regularly.

- Wright

The Bacon Samurai Game

Chris here. Wright and I have started some brainstorming on some ideas, and Clayton is on board to program it. We started a NewGrounds thread with some of our ideas:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic.php?id=725172

That's it for now.

-C

Tracking Video Stats

So I signed up for www.TubeMogul.com , an awesome site that tracks hits on popular video sites. So yesterday was a slow YouTube day, and today apparently isn't, and the update was too good to not blog it.

Set's the bar kinda high... can't wait for the video version of Bacon Samurai. omg join the mailing list at www.BaconSamurai.com.

Oh, I'm also doubling my efforts on getting MySpace friends. My goal is at least 150 friend requests a day.

-Chris

Bacon Samurai Debut!

Hey, it's Chris. Bacon Samurai is up online at Newgrounds.com. Check the front page, or the link below.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/384149

It's doing pretty well, 20,000 views in the first day, and it's got a 4.19/5.00
If we make it to 4.22, we'll be on the the top 50 OF ALL TIME. So go vote if you haven't today!

k thx bai.

-Chris