Happy Halloween everyone!

This is a picture of my Hank madness costume. I'm putting on the grey makeup and cross over my face tomorrow for the real day!

i'll have more pictures later...

here's 3 pictures

i have to start off with this one cause it's a major impact. I can comfortably say this has to be my favorite or one of my favorite 3 Speilbergs.

and this guy, who is the king of movie intro's, and was a key source for the "Catch me if you can" titles is a master. Saul Bass:

Saul Bass made a lot of Alfred Hitchcock opening credits. Alfred Hitchcock being another source of inspiration. here's some of his movies:

...Not only had i precisely been working with an idea for a comic series of superheroes right before the first incredibles trailer came out, but the movie had so much in common with my idea for the look and themes. I absolutely love this movie and was a bit let down that it'd be considered a rip off if i ever surfaced my idea. But honestly, it was great seeing a movie that felt so up my alley. and I think i was close to literally cumming at the end of the movie when those title sequences came. I hadn't felt that fired up in a long time watching a movie until that.

When I was working on "The Ballad Of Cripple Kane" i had hit a brick wall and totally lost my fuel for it. I felt I was getting too ambitious. That project was literally untouched for a long time. Then... I went to see Kung Fu panda in theaters. And the opening sequence literally lifted my spirits. I still watch that video over and over again. and every time it's just as powerful. It was such a beautiful execution and would one day like to make an animated film with that stylistic approach. In that the digital approach to animating is used to have that smooth sleek look. but still have the flexibility you have with traditional animation. check it out. ( i wish there were a better quality version on youtube: if you want to see full quality. go here.

When I was a kid and we'd learn history, I was always so impressed by the simplicity and power of propaganda posters. especially the russians. Since I can't post many pictures on here I'll list some links.

russian

russian

russian

nazi

nazi

When I was a kid and we'd have our friday night block buster visits to rent some movies for the weekend. I loved looking at the covers for horror movies. I'd sort of sneak there to scare myself. I'd sneak cause my parents didnt want to have to deal with my restless nights. But by doing this routine, I realized I got a lot of inspiration from these covers. Horror has always been a favorite genre of mine. Because it's the genre that pushes the creators to use every possible medium available. A good horror (emphasis on the word good) takes someone who knows a lot of different aspects in film.

Donnovan's Brain

Invasion Of The Saucer Men

A Nightmare On Elm Street

They Live

John Carpenter's The Thing

Another aspect of film that is a key inspiration for my work is Noir, and German Expressionist cinema.

here's some of Metropolis (the non-rtil version):

Citizen Kane is another source of inspiration for me:

The Hudsucker Proxy, has that citizen Kane style, but a bit more loony and stylized. BUT! I SUGGEST YOU DONT WATCH THIS CLIP IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE. IT SPOILS A BIG ELEMENT OF IT AND RUINS A GREAT BUILD UP FOR A MEMORABLE JOKE. watch to be reminded if you've already seen:

if you haven't seen it yet you can definitely watch this:

Brazil is what i can comfortably say my favorite movie. It's had the most impact on me. I'm not even going to begin to describe why I like it. instead, check out the beginning of the movie. If you end up watching the whole movie, keep in mind it's a movie that is best appreciated if you've watched it more than once.

Jules Verne was always an inspiration to a lot of what I do. People call it "steam punk" now. I hate that term:

And right up the Vernian alley, an animated movie (one of modern disney's best in my opinion). comes a movie that mixed a lot of the best Jules Verne elements so beautifully. The trailer doesnt let me imbed the movie here so just go here.

maybe i'll make another post eventually and Zekey it out.

oh. last but not least, i posted that animated intro on youtube. if i put it up you can see all the direct influences referenced in the other videos.

College has been making me it's fucking bitch. It's been tough for me to get used to the routine. I feel like I'm always busy with, but I'm not accomplishing enough. It could just be me, stressing when there's no need. I have trouble with that some times. It feels like it's just never enough sometimes. My effort I mean.

Anyway, enough of that emotional bullshit.

I still need more face scans for "The Faces of Newgrounds" collab. I think I'm giving it one or two more weeks of face scans sent to me. If I don't have enough, I'll just fade out the music.

I want to get that collaboration done, cause I've got a little something up my sleeve I've been working on for a while. Actually it's pretty big. It might happen it might not, depends on how I lay out my work load. With college getting in the way of so much and all. It's always nice to dream, though (insert cheesy, poetic tone). But I think I've finally come up with an idea for a series...

I've had this idea for a series for a while. and on friday i decided to make an intro for fun. So, just in case this project never becomes a reality. i'll post this intro here cause it wouldn't hold up as a submission on its own anyway.

Check out the intro here!

Below is a screen grab of the Faces of NG loading screen/ logo concept:

At the very bottom of this post i linked the picture of my University Online account.

UPDATES:

'The Faces of Newgrounds'

So, It helped that Tom mentioned the collaboration on his news post, but I still got about a minute worth of song left and need a good amount of pictures. Please, if you have a scanner and a face press them together and send me what you get.

I've been getting a lot of questions like: 'do I have to be popular to get in?'
answer: no, hat's silly, it's such a fine line between being popular and not anyway and it'd get all political and shit. You just have to have a newgrounds account. user, artist, whatever.

Another thing. THE WHOLE POINT OF THE COLLAB IS TO MAKE A SILLY FACE PRESSED AGAINST THE SCANNER. DON'T SEND ME PICTURES OF YOU TRYING TO LOOK HOT OR SOMETHING.

the point is to do something ridiculous.

think of it this way if you feel intimidated. Clowns dress ridiculous to make it clear that whatever they are doing is a joke. If you feel shy, just make it clear this is all for fun and your not trying to impress anyone.

whatever, enough of that collab for now.

p.s. I think I'm gonna be Hank from madness for halloween. like ninja-fied hank, but my live action version.

No, sadly i'm not dead.

I just started going to the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, where I'm majoring in film directing, and boy is school making me it's bitch! So much so, to the point where it just didn't let me finish this little madness experiment on time for madness week. There is no way in hell I'd be able to finish it on time so i submitted it now :(

check out my madness day submission...

Nathanial Milburn wanted me to help him whore out his twin brother's project so check this out too!

AS FOR THE FACES OF NEWGROUNDS COLLABORATION.

i made a bad call on the cutting short the list of submissions. Yes, I'm still working on that. it's easy, but tedious. I'll have that definitely done before the year ends. Just give me some time.

I probably still need about 20-30 more face scans for the collaboration! So, if you got a face, and you got a scanner, submit your image. However, you must follow the following (uh...) rules clearly and specifically. They aren't hard, they'll just make it easier for me to put it together, thus finishing sooner, thus not having a problem linking each scan to the user's account.

here are the rules:

1. must be resized to fit in a 700x600 screen. basically any square sized smaller than that is good.
2. the file name must be your username. BUT spell your username the way it's spelled in the link to your NG account.

EXAMPLE: my newgrounds user page link is: www.almightyhans.newgrounds.com therefore, my file name is: almightyhans.png

3. your file should be saved as .png, or .jpg (for quality purposes)
4. try to make the weirdest possible face. be creative
5. host your picture on www.imageshack.us and PM me the link to the file. I'll just drag and drop into flash from there.

THATS IT! 5 easy rules.

anyways. Happy Madness day, or Merry Madness Day, or whatever it is you say on Madness Day!

-HVH

picture below is at the london meet loving the castle crashers drinks...

The gates are closed for "The Faces of Newgrounds" collab. no more faces (or balls) sent to me please. I'm pretty sure I got everything I need, if i Need more I'll let you all know.

I'm back from all the trips (Comic Con, Dallas, London Meet) and starting film school in about a week. I just moved to my new place in the city. I'm now living IN San Francisco now, as opposed to living in Berkeley. which if just the East side of the Bay for those of you who don't know. And it's really exciting. Just me and my brother in our own place. It's a new start, a new life. all that shit.

anyways... yada yada yada
-HVH

(photo of me and Nathaniel Milburn below eating free ice cream just outside comic con)

"The Faces of Newgrounds"

the collaboration is turning out to look like a lot of fun. however i chose a pretty long song and i need lots more faces for it. Just in case you didnt catch my previous post. rules are:

-you have to have a scanner
-you have to have a face
-you have to be a newgrounds user
-make a weird face pressed against the scanner
-name your file your NG username
-upload the file on imageshack.us and pm me the link

Been getting lots of people in on this. I'll put a list:

big-johnny-13
bug
KwikToon
lawnbaby
idude
dicool27
fornoreason
frozenfire
ediblecastle
kyaztro
paperbat
pawlakt
radioactive24
samiam
the-exp
Toblorone
j8czs8
flee
lexmarkaio
nathanielmilburn
Orange-moai
trottimus
buzzwerd
MoeJoe122
mrRedux
beenman19
AlmightyHans
TheBoogley
Oney
Scribbler
Tystarr
SuperLaserBeamPanda
Homicidicle
SPace
bob
Neoflame1
7794
IamWeird33
TomFulp
Stupid_Gir
catoblepas
assassin223
carbonwater
chookchuckley
magicalmonkeyguy
middlefingerrings
vincoid
supersense

i could use a lot more, cause it's quite fast cutting and it's quite a long song. plus, with a project like this. the more the merrier. spread the word. as long as you got a scanner, it's really not much effort to contribute to this collab.

*update* as for coauthoring, i'm not sure how ill be doing it for sure yet. but for now, i'm not coauthoring anyone except the programmer who will help make the pause/play, account links, and other stuff. I might do something like coauthoring he funniest faces, but that's sort of relative and unfair, there's just so many people in on this.

[I WILL BE UPDATING THIS POST SO COME BACK TO IT OR PM ME FOR QUESTIONS]

-HVH

p.s. only scan your face. i've received a scan of someone's balls. not pleasant. not at all. you're not allowed to enter if you do.

first off, check out my latest movie, I just submitted it on sunday!

I'm starting a collab.

If you have a face, and a scanner, and are a newgrounds regular... you can be in this collab.

Similar to tom's "The Day Keanu Stood Still". I want to make a collab of a bunch of newgrounds users with their faces pressed against the scanner to a song. I have a few songs in mind but i want it to be a surprise what song i use when it comes out. It's a VERY simple concept for a collab but honestly, i think it'll be fun to see it done.

what I'll need"

-ONE scan of your face in jpeg/png. make sure you choose a good one. have your image not be so big, cause i'll need to resize it in flash and it will get pixeled. the screen will be 700x600 so basically, any size that can fit in those proportions.
-your newgrounds username. also, make the name of your file you username as written in your ng url. example: almightyhans.newgrounds.com
-that's it!

THERE IS NO DUE DATE YET! MANY SPOTS STILL OPEN!!!

pm me all this info.
-HVH

Hey Peoplez,

I Just wanted to throw the message out there and mention that I've submitted a good handful of stuff to the art portal. Let me know what you guys think. Especially the 'Joy' comic strip series I made (read those in order).

thanks a bunch.
-HVH

P.S. I find it funny how the moment MJ dies everyone's all disappointed by parody videos. What ever happened to "die pedophile". You flip flopping fucks.

So I got my wisdom teeth pulled out. It was funny. I won't be able to voice act for a full week so sorry to put anyone on hold further for those of you i owe lines. just like Tomamoto, don't hesitate to remind me. It's hard to do voices for lines with no due dates, so a good idea of when you need them helps.

I'll try and Cover

WISDOM TEETH EVENT:
Anyway. It was hilarious when they were getting me ready for the operation. I was knocked out during the operation. but they strapped a tube over my nose to fill me with laughing gas first so i wont mind so much when they stab an IV into my arm. but i felt they put the tube over my nose for the 'laughing gas' kinda crooked. The plan was to fill me with laughing gas to that I wouldn't feel any pain or bother when they put in the IV. I didn't say anything, i feel intimidated by doctors, i mean, i just figure they know what they're doing and any mention of something could just make me look like an idiot.

So i started feeling a bit light headed, but not as light headed as i wished. You see when i was 9, i got operated and they missed my vein with the IV and i saw my arm get slightly inflated. I've been IV paranoid ever since. I watched the young doctor hold my arm with that big ass needle. "Oh, you have good veins" and she poked the needle right into my arm. It hurt. more than i thought. But at least the IV part was over. "Oops, where'd it go? Your vein just disappeared" she said. I didn't respond, but just wondered how in the world do veins vanish.

She poked again. And again. and again... i stopped looking at them poke after i saw some blood drops start to fill the holes the needle left behind. It was like they were voodoo torturing me but without the doll. i started laughing. cause i felt that tickling pain, the kind your body doesn't know how to react so it just laughs. "You starting to feel light headed, i see?" she asked, poking at my arm some more. "Honestly no, not at all." I wanted to respond. because I was only light headed like one would feel after one beer... which isn't much at all. My response to her comment was a little laugh.

"Okay, it's not working here. The Veins keep disappearing" she moved up to my wrist. I'd never seen anyone take the needly on the side of the wrist, like where the joint is. I heard my heart rate go up a little on that little beepity-boopity machine as she pushed the needle into the side of my wrist. I laughed a little harder than before. I couldn't believe putting the IV was so complicated. She told me to relax my wrist. As i did, I felt the needle raise my skin at the angle it was placed. Still laughing, I had to confess and said "That one kinda hurts". "It does? It's not supposed to... Well, you won't remember any of this anyway." Clearly I did... and it hurt... apparently they didn't have the 'laughing gas' up to the level necessary. lol.

ART PORTAL
So Tom made me an Art Portal Mod. I've never been a mod before, and we're all new to the Art portal, so I'm just gonna ask for people to give me a break at first. It'll take me a bit to adjust to this. especially with the wonderful pain pills i got for my missing wisdom teeth. Everything is nice and tipsy. But in good time I will be the most efficient mod ever. ;) Also, I'm incredibly excited about the Art portal. Congrats Staff dudes.

JOSHUA TOMAR IN SAN FRANCISCO
Congrats to Tomar, he just drove across the country with a friend of his and Arrived to LA, where he plans to live. He managed to make some time and visit the zany place that is San Francisco. It was the first time i met Josh in person. It was a strange feeling, i mean we chat it up on Skype a lot. like most people i meet in real life after already knowing on the internet. you feel like you know them, but not entirely. A lot of people are different in person than they are online. Not in Tomar's case though, he's an all around swell guy. For me, it was just breaking that first thin wall of awkward pseudo introduction. You don't know what to say cause he already knows you, but you got to start off somewhere. Anyways, It was me Tomar, Javier (an artist who has yet to submit to NG specifically but seems like he's got some great stuff up his sleeve), and Josh's friend who accompanied him through the vast voyage across the USofA. Meeting up with Tomar and his friends further increased my excitement for Comic con.

COMIC CON
So, as far as I know. Tom Fulp let me go ahead and sell One Shot Comics at the NG/Behemoth booth at Comic Con, which i'm really excited for. I will be going to Comic Con with my Cousin from Mexico. Really cool kid, pretty active in the NG community, but as a user rather than artist. Awesome guy, non the less.

I'm are letting Nathaniel Milburn and a friend of his stay at our hotel room throughout the time. That will be fun. And some Dutch kid named "the stamp" or something. He hasn't fully contacted me and let me know more details and exactly all that info. so im not sure about him yet. If people are going to be at my hotel place they need to be efficient with all this info. I don't want to be responsible for any misunderstandings, especially if you're underaged and lost. i need to know this stuff crystal clear. Let that be a message for you my Dutch friend. and let this also be another message. 'I don't speak Dutch'.

LONDON SUMMER FLING
So basically Comic Con is raping me violently in the financial asshole. I've been working my ass off painting bathrooms, gardening horrible back yards, and replacing old rotting wood porches. Trying to earn some money for the amount i'm loosing at comic con so I can actually have a decent amount to spend on good 'ol bloody expensive U.K..

I'm going to keep my word with saving all the money I make through the comics, strictly for the production of other comics. until i actually have an amount in that ODD Comics Bank Account to start using for external more personal uses. So it's not like the money i'll make selling comics at comic con is at all a boost for the London summer fling. I'm going to start going to the Academy of Arts in San Francisco starting September 3rd. I want to make sure I squeeze all the juice out of that lemon so I'll probably become more isolated to the Newgrounds activity, excluding moderating.

CLOSURE
What this means is that I'll probably have a lot less time for NG submissions, but mainly... Probably very few, but most likely no NG meetups for me for 4 years. which depending on how these meet ups go... London Summer Fling might be my last meetup. Thats why I've got an idea for a music video/movie of the London Summer Fling. To add a sort of closure on my part. and thanks to Luis and everyone who's made these glorious events possible. so basically Luis...

Anyway, there's a good slate of projects that have been taking me a a lot more time to complete than necessary. Honestly. This past year, I've been loosing my mind and drive to work on the stuff i love. It's been a lonely, lost year (not to sound like a total pussy). But I'm hoping to get back on track mentally by going to the Academy of Arts and get my Film Directing Major. And make a nice closure to this horribly depressive year of mine with Comic Con and London Summer Fling.

that's it.
-HVH

p.s. i made a tooth monster with my extracted wisdom teeth. (picture at the bottom of this post.)