D.A. Sebasstian Journal & Creative News 2006

12/27/06- "Busy with the DV editing"...I bet I could just copy and paste that line for every day for the next six months.

12/26/06- Organizing files and file back-ups for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Also found some excellent foley and impact sounds in my Apple Loops program. Since I use Cubase for my audio sweetening - I hadn't really messed with Apple Loops (Apples version of a Sony Acid like program). Some of the stock sounds are very big and impressive. Saves me from having to scour Sonomic.com.

12/25/06- Merry Christmas ya Punks!

12/24/06- R.I.P. James Brown...

12/20/06- Editing an extremely difficult scene for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. This one could take awhile.

12/15/06- The power just came back here in North Seattle. It's been out since Thursday night. because of a massive wind storm. Gusts of up to 69mph were recorded at Sea-Tac Airport. We have it lucky compared to some others ion the East Side. Puget Sound Energy said some customers could be days without power. We're talking thousands and thousands of people. This is one of the biggest outages in the Northwest I can remember. I've been living here since 1989.

12/01/06- Uploaded a new Kill Switch...Klick Channel on You Tube. Some archive footage including our Spuds Goodman performance and Eye On Seattle TV Show performance.

11/28/06- Seattle is still a snowy icy mess. With the down town I was able to finish Scene 7 of Hot Rod Girls Save The World.

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11/27/06- Snow, snow, snow. Mess, mess, mess. We left my wives art school to drop off one of the students. We are to meet the child's parent several blocks away to save her the extra drive. It had just started snowing again and the weather people had warned it could get ugly (commute wise). An hour later we reach our destination- only 15 blocks away! The parent is stuck and has called her brother to pick her up. After dropping the child we spend the next four hours trying to get home. Cars are strewn all across the one inch thick ice covered roadways. We see dozens of cars abandoned along the roadside. Frustrated motorists have become freezing pedestrians. The most subtly amazing thing I saw was a huge Dodge 4x4 pick-up, sliding sideways across the ice. It was sitting in front of us, not moving forward at all. Then all of the sudden the weight of the truck and gravity started pulling the truck completely sideways towards the curb. The guy managed to keep from hitting the parked cars. Our Dodge Magnum is AWD which helped, but still four wheel drive didn't help if the hill was too steep. We got home at 11PM and ate and went straight to bed.

11/26/06- Snow, snow, snow.

11/25/06- Back to the movie editing.

11/24/06- Spent the last two days uploading content to a new You Tube page I started for Go-Kustom. It's murder uploading with dial-up!!!

11/23/06- Thanksgiving...hope yours was decent. I used to hate Turkey Day as a young single guy, but now with a wife and two pre-teen kids, I really dig it. We are vegetarians that eat fish (what the hell- fishitarians?) So we cook up a big slab of Salmon each year. This time around we hit the local Costco and got this giant slab for next to nothing.

11/20/06- Busy weekend. I started a new imprint on Go-Kustom called INDVSTA (also the name of my publishing company). This is strictly electronic music. We are going to do several compilation of strictly electronic music in early 2007. I also uploaded a few of our titles to Custom Flix. They are a duplication service connected to Amazon that runs DVD's and CD's as people order them, so there's never any backstock. I knew this one was coming. They are also doing a direct movie download service that will be available soon.

11/13/06- Carly came over to the studio to do some voice over tests for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. She will be replacing random dialog and doing some extra work for our little film.

11/11/06- Upgraded my system to Mac OS 10.4.6 and Final Cut Pro 5.1 Universal. Took three days to re-render video files. I could have waited until I was in need of a certain scene and then rendered, but I like to bounce back and forth for scene comparisons.

11/05/06- Heard Link Wray passed away today. Link was the pioneer of fuzz tone guitar. His 50's anthem "Rumble" started a trend that continues today in Hardcore, Metal, Punk and even Electronica. More distortion please...

11/04/06- Finished a string of scenes for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Now a whole section of the movie is rough cut. We may make our February 1st deadline.

11/01/06- More Special Effects Editing for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Compositing multiple video and still images together is one of my favorite things in film making. It's time consuming, but creative. P.S.- Hey where'd the year go? November 1st is my official "Holididay Slip'n Slide" start date. 2007 here we come!

10/16/06- HEMI 'CUDA. I was reading in a Muscle Car magazine whilst sitting on the shitter that proclaimed the HEMI 'CUDA as the most expensive muscle car on the planet. Which makes sense (thank you Nash Bridges). Watching Barrett-Jackson a few nights before- I saw Mopars going for incredible amounts of money. Who would have thought that a muscle car would cost more than a decent home. Being a diehard Mopar guy since I was 14, this is cool and not so cool. I like the fact that Mopar iron is getting the attention it deserves as the greatest American Muscle Cars of all time, but now know that actually being able to afford an original "Hemi anything" is next to impossible. I also realize that many of the new owners of these cars are just doing the investment thing. They never drooled over an E-Body like I did as a kid. A double edged sword.

10/15/06- Stormy Sunday. Big Autmn storm hit Seattle last night. Our house, so we get the howling winds at night. Very cozy. Thought about going out to see George Noory at Third Place Books last night, but couldn't drag my ass away from the computer. I love listening to Coast To Coast every night. Helps me fall asleep. For you that don't know, George took over for the Art Bell a few years back. I've been listening regularly to Coast To Coast since the ninties. Spent most all the weekend editing and also wrote some new music for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Took several hours yesterday fine tuning a subtitle font and content for a scene featuring Buhgabaa. In the scene he is examining a dead human body.

10/13/06- Friday the 13th...always something cool about that. Hot Rod Girls Save The World has taken over my life. I am really churning out the scenes. We decided we want to try and beat a few festival deadlines (including SIFF). That means we have to have a rough cut of the film by Feb. 1st 2007. I think we can do it. Nothing like a deadline to light the ol' fire under the arse! My editing style is getting more relaxed... Not lazy...just flowing. I know more and more what to look for in potential footage and how to problem solve bad angles and bad audio. Eric Freytag (HRGSTW second editor) has been cranking out the scenes as well. His style is artistic and edgy. I think our different editing styles are a good match-up.

10/10/06- I have the Space Madness! Fidgety, but working hard on the editing part of HRGSTW. Man...editing a feature length film is alot of work. I think editors are totally under-rated. They actually have more effect on the film than almost anyone else. How you assemble the pieces is how the film impacts the viewer. Like Legos, you can put the bits together in all kindsa combinations.

10/06/06- Extreme editing session on Hot Rod Girls Save The World for the last two weeks. Knocked out several key scenes. I've been jumping around working on one scene and then when I get tired of looking at the footage over and over and over, I'll jump to something else, I also got some very interesting music written for the Alien Scenes. At night, when I'm tired of looking at the computer monitor, I go up to bed and grab my Korg ESX-1 and write tracks in bed. It beats reading or watching TV.

09/22/06- Back to some serious movie editing. Fine tuning special effects for Scene 2.

09/12/06- We finally opened my wife's arts school.. Alot of work for both of us that will hopefully pay off for both us and the music and arts community at large.

08/31/06- Still working on getting our arts school up and running. Not much time for anything else. Yesterday I was over there working 10 hours straight and the day before 15 hours! It's almost ready though so I can get back to the movie.

08/25/06- The last week I've been getting my wives art school ready for a September opening. In case you guys wonder, that's how we make a living. The label breaks even on most investments (eventually) and Hot Rod Girls Save The World has been a money hole for the last three years. So needless to say I haven't spent much time editing. We are supposed to wrap the remodel of the building up this weekend, so I should have more editing time. I also canceled our weekly TV Show - Go-Kustom TV for this next season so I can dedicate 100 percent to the film. The good news is Go-Kustom TV is now available on DVD. I also just signed a new distribution deal that will get the DVD's on a slew of new websites including Amazon and Froogle.

08/14/06- Spent the last few days compositing scenes for the alien planet "Moosha Maa." The render times are huge with some 10 minute clips taking 10 hours to render. I think I need a separate computer just to render special effects.

08/11/06- Came up with several new songs for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. No titles yet, but an interesting mix of industrial beats and swingin' guitars.

08/09/06- Got several new scenes completed for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. We may make a Fall '06 rough cut deadline. Eric Freytag has been extremely helpful with the editing. He started a few months back as second editor and has been knocking out scenes left and right.

08/05/06- Spent a few hours over at the Tacoma Hot-Rod-A-Rama. Chris Darland, Ryan Kezer and their lovely wives came up from Medford, Oregon. Chris and Ryan staged a major gang fight scene in Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Tony Ririe (whose '29 is one of the stars of Hot Rod Girls Save The World) and The Fat Bastards (whose cars were also featured) were all in attendance. Even though we only stayed for the afternoon, it was a blast.

07/27/06- Finished yet another scene for Hot Rod Girls Save The World.

07/22/06- It's hot in Seattle. Got up to 95 F, which isn't that hot by Southern state standards, but few people have air conditioning around here and houses can get damn hot. We slept in my Recording Studio last night. It's in a converted old fruit cellar, so it stays cool year 'round.

07/17/06- Finished a rough cut of Scene 3 for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Started on the Alien world special effects. Alot of masking and green screen.

07/09/06- Been slowly finishing a rough edit for Scene 3 for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Man...this one was tough- mostly because we were missing shots. When you rush a shoot you can easily miss shots and end up with unusable footage. We over shot certain sections of the scene and missed other sections. This particular scene was shot down in Medford Oregon and we were rushing to get as much done in one day as possible. Haste makes unusable footage...

06/27/06- Hired two additional editors for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World film. Having three people work on the editing should get this rough cut by end of summer. iTunes just added tons of new Kill Switch...Klick music to their site. A few weeks ago there were like 5 songs up, now there are over 4 hours worth of music! My two new albums- Kill Switch...Klick- Mechanoid Collection and D.A. Sebasstian - Straggler should be available in a month or so on iTunes. Also the newest Go-Kustom Rekords compilation Girlfiends & She-Devils will be out next week.

06/11/06- Got some decent editing time in today for Hot Rod Girls. The last few weeks have been crazy,,,getting my wife's art school up and running.

06/05/06- Still busy helping the wife set up her Arts School. It's been alot of fence building and carpet removal and painting. I'm hoping to get back to the editing later this week. I'm jonsin' to finish my little film. So much work left to do.

05/22/06- Helping the wife with the new school, editing Hot Rod Girls (I'm getting 4-5 hours in a day) and created two new short run CD's for this website and CD Baby Distribution. The two discs are Kill Switch...Klick - Mechanoid Collection, featuring a few new songs and alot of mixed older material and D.A. Sebasstian - Straggler with about half older and half newer songs.Both discs will be available on this site early next month.

05/12/06- Spent the last few weeks helping my wife get her new Arts School ready for a June Grand Opening, as well as editing, editing, editing. I've completed several new scenes. It's slow going, but I still hope to have a rough cut of Hot Rod Girls Save The World by end of thi s summer.

04/25/06- Anxiety. I guess it's post filming depression (PFD?) or some such emotional blah blah blah. Gonna go see my doc and get something to help me sleep. I try to do things au natural but damnit- I really need to sleep right now.

04/23/06- After nearly two years of filming- we finished the filming for Hot Rod Girls Save The World today!!! Well yea- there will be a few little pick-up shots, but it's very very minimal stuff that remains. No scenes or multiple actor shots. I was trying to explain how it felt to my wife and then it came to me. Think of one of your favorite years of school. It's the last day of the school year, right before summer vaction begins. You have a half day, the year is done, the teacher lets you goof off all day. Theres a little sadness, because you know you moving on, buts tsill summer starts tomarrow. Thats how I today felt. The Seattle weather was gorgeous, like an early summer day. I felt a sense of completion (although I've just started the editing), a little bit of sadness, as I was packing the biohazrd costumes away and throwing sheets over the Alien TV & Space Pod props, but mostly euphoric.

04/20/06- One of my internal hard drives crashed out yesterday, locking my computer all day long. I just finished putting it all back together this morning. Lost about 6 hours of work time. I still have a few things to re-install. Oh and my face errupted with a giant cold sore. Hmmmm- I wonder if the two are connected?

04/19/06- Almost finished a very complicated dialog based scene for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. It's slow going, but I'm finding my editing style. It took the better part of a week. At this rate it might be in theaters by 2010! Actually we're hoping to have a rough cut by end of summer 2006. Better crank it up a coupla notches.

04/17/06- We had a quick pick-up shoot in Olympia at the Capital Theater with Detective LLoyd (Jimmi Davies). All went smoothly. The shoot had originally been planned as an outdoor shoot, and then after talking to Jimmi we were able to move it inside. Thanks Audrey for the use of the theater! Coming back on I-5 the rain was pouring down in buckets and then the sun would burst out and the rainbows would pop up everywhere and people would wreck their cars in the ultra-glare and then it'd poor buckets again. Typical NW April weather.

04/14/06- The last week has been spent on editing several scenes for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. One in particular was very difficult (and still isn't finished). It includes tons of back and forth dialog and close-ups. Rented Mirror Mask a few days ago. Nice to see an indie-film with serious artistic edges and enough backing to make it to the average Blockbuster store. Gives me hope for our little film.

04/05/06- Spent the last week getting promo ready for Viva Las Vegas Show- including a new Hot Rod Girls Save The World DVD Trailer package, new buttons and new postcards. I also finished The Best Of Go-Kustom TV Volumes 1 & 2 and 3 & 4. I'll have them up on the website for purchase shortly. Each volume is close to an hour long with two volumes on each DVD.

03/21/06- Did a few solo pick-up shots for the Roadside Biohazard scenes we shot last weekend. You never know until you closely review your footage, what needs to be reshot or what camera angles didn't work. I can't imagine all the last minute pick-up shots needed for a big budget feature film.

03/19/06- A little bit of Sunday afternoon filming for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Good day to film. Looks like winter is on the way out.

03/11/06- Editing, editing, editing...

03/06/06- Spent the whole weekend digging through audio files and loading DAT tapes of sound effects and potential movie songs into a new external drive. Hot Rod Girls Save World already fills some 350 Gigs of disk space. The songs were from older Kill Switch...Klick - Organica recording sessions. I usually save versions of songs I write in an instrumental mix form (as well as the vocals versions). This comes in handy for quick remixes or new vocal takes. Anyways these instrumental songs are perfect as background music for several scenes in Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Meanwhile, most of my sound effects library is from my ancient Roland S-550. This old sampler stores sounds on Floppy Discs (remember those?). I have to load, record through the audio out and then edit to get the sounds into the computer. Alot of work, but well worth the effort. Especially since I have thousands and thousands of sounds in my S-550 library.

02/27/06- Happy Birthday Liz Taylor! Hey people- check out the first completed scene from Hot Rod Girls Save The World! In this scene, the alien boy (Buhgabaa- played by David Nance) , touches a Tilki Lamp used in Cat Fight Combat by the devious Vikki Lee & one of the stories heroines Jo Leene Dodge. He can sense past events through objects, kinda like an empathetic flashback. Klick the still above to see the clip. It is in Quicktime format and is about 23 Megs in size.

02/26/06- Got a killer write up in the April 2006 Issue of CK Deluxe. The piece is a three plus pager about Tony Ririe's Hot Rod (the automotive star of Hot Rod Girls Save The World) and mentions the movie quite a bit. Check out the nice little staged action shot above by the incredible shutter man- Dan Brouillard! Today we also went over to Fiefe, Washington to shot a shop interior. This was a pick-up shot for a scene we filmed last year in Olympia. Because we tried to shoot so much in Olympia in one afternoon, we ended up rushing and missing a few ambient shots. That is happens when you try to do everything you can in the shortest amount of time.

02/25/06- Worked up some creepy music for a "Creepy House" scene in Hot Rod Girls. The piece is based on some bass guitar tracks I recorded a few weeks ago- running my Ibanez through a ring modulator effect. Then I doubled up the tracks and slowed and reversed them, to give the piece an other-worldly sound. Very creepy and appropriate for the scene. It makes it easier to cut a scene (at least for me) if you are cutting it to some music. They say audio is 80 percent of a movie (although one of the weakest areas of most movie budgets). That's part of the difference with this film. The music and sound come first.

02/23/06- Found another decent review of the Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD. It was in Rasputin Manifesto. The reviews are just starting to come in. It usually takes 3-4 months from the time you send out the CD's before you get anything in print.

02/22/06- Spent the last week trimming scenes and reviewing footage. I'm about half way finished with the scene reviewing (40 of 80 scenes). I also completed a few transitional scenes- including a very difficult alien flashback scene, which involved multiple footage styles and sound effects. I am slowly building my own film editing style and vocabulary.

02/14/06- A slight dusting of snow around Seattle. It was all melted by noon. More editing time for yours truly.

02/10/06- Working on the title theme music for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. Basically I have two separate songs that I'm trying to combine for the musical template throughout the movie. This is harder than it sounds as the two musical pieces are in different keys with different tempos. With a little combining and re-recording things seem to be working. I also have notice in this early stage of editing of this little flick, that my method of using the on camera mic mixed with the boom mic has paid off. Sometimes the boom sounded...well...too...boomy. Especially when sitting on the floorboards of a moving car, in the path of heavy winds, etc. Having the second audio channel to jump to- saved several scenes (audio wise). That's one of the big reasons for indie film makers to get the Panasonic AG-DVX100. The phantom powered, XLR connected, on board stereo 48k audio is killer! Just plug in and record. The built-in mics are not bad either. You can select a mix of on camera mics and/or external mics. My origin thought was to use the on camera mic for ambient fill (right channel), with the boom being for close-up dialog (left channel). Options are good, especially for guerilla style film makers like myself. I also got half of the 80 plus scenes laid out in their individual timelines. This enables me to quickly pick and choose keeper shots from garbage, although it's hard to know when to throw something away- especially when I'm having to use little bits from complete garbage shots to save another almost perfect shot. I'm gonna try and get the rest done this upcoming weekend.

02/07/06 - Snip snip here- snip snip there...editing fun.

02/06/06 - Seattle got robbed in the Superbowl yesterday. The officials were leaning hard on the Pittsburgh side. A touchdown that should have counted for the Seahawks, a touchdown that shouldn't have counted for the Steelers. At least the Stones put on a good show. Spent all day today trimming scenes. This is gonna take awhile.

02/05/06 - Spent the weekend trimming scene footage for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. This will take awhile. Hours of footage have to be trimmed- so I have working editable footage in the timeline for each scene. How I'm editing may not be orthodox, but I've been doing it this way for years with my TV Show and it seems to work best. I also noticed alot of our audio is screwed up, due to passing cars and planes (when shooting outside). Clearly I have a big job ahead.

02/02/06 - Groundhog Day. Did the hog see his shadow? Don't know. During a random Kill Switch...Klick Google search ( I do that every once in a while not out of narcissism- but to see new website listings and Cleopatra Records releases that I may not know about) came across a new (to me) DVD (Goth: Ultimate Collection) and CD (New Dark Noise) releases.

02/01/06 - Februrarry. Is it Spring yet? We have a lotta f'n rain the last few months. I think we broke a Seattle record. Most consecutive days of rain or some such crud. Makes you appreciate the big yellow orb in the sky. Finished rewiring the studio. Smells a bit like moldy carpet, but the fans should dry it out in a day or so. OK - so now can I edit my movie?

01/31/06 - Had a minor bit of flooding in the studio. Four small water patches came up through the carpeting. Each about two feet across. So I had to unhook all the wires and cables that were now sitting on top of said wet carpeting and then decided, during clean-up, to revamp the studio and make some changes I had in mind for awhile.

01/30/06 - Finished several small scenes for Hot Rod Girls Save The World. It's a start.

I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD!

01/29/06 - All day trimming clips in various scenes. Hours and hours of snip, snip, snip. Also filmed myself as the Kaye Kendall character in zombie mode (with a little help from the Mrs.). This is a shot that will be used when the gals in Hot Rod Girls are watching a small TV in a cafe, signifying that the disease has spread beyond their little town to Seattle.

01/28/06 - Finished basic arranging of the new Kill Switch...Klick song "Curse Of The Planet Xijix." This is an old school techno piece with heavy Kraftwerk influences. It took all day to dump the audio tracks from my Korg ESX-1 sampling drum machine. Man I can't say enough about the Korg. I thought when I bought Reason for my G4 a few years back, that was the bomb, and it is a great "all in computer" sequencer. Most of the Kill Switch...Klick album Almost Ambient Collection Volume One was written only using the Reason software. But the Korg ESX-1 has given me the sound I've been looking for for years. I cut my musical teeth in the pre-sampler pre-MIDI days of din sync'ed synths and drum machines. The ESX-1 has that feel and because of the internal tubes- a very warm sound. Using Smart Media cards and a writer hooked into a USB port, you can import and export sounds directly to the ESX-1. This gives fairly quick access to your WAV or AIFF files. I think the coolest thing about the ESX-1 is portability. I wrote all of "Curse Of The Planet Xijix" in the hour or so before I fall asleep over a few weeks time...in bed! In fact most of the new KsK album was written in bed. I feel like John Lennon. I think need to have a press conference in bed. Sound designing all afternoon. Needed a big white noise rumble for a slow motion cut away. Ended up using Reason to get it deep and ambient. Spent all of the evening shooting B Roll for the opening scene. Exciting stuff- close-ups of pieces of paper, monitor screens, certificates on the wall, etc. Got an hour of footage.

01/27/06 - A new review for the Hot Rod Girls Save The World - Music & Mayhem CD in Rocktober Magazine.

01/25/06 - Made some new Buhgabaa "Moosha Maa" merchandise for our Cafe Press.com Hot Rod Girls Save The World website.

01/24/06 - Working out this morning ( I try and get in 25 minutes a morning on our studio treadmill) had massive chest pains. Because I have high blood pressure I ended up calling 911. The paramedics came over and said everything looked fine, but maybe I should got to the ER. I declined, but ended up going to my doctor later in the day. She said that my heart looked strong, and it was more than likely a rib muscle popping. All I know is it hurt like hell and scared the crap out of me.

01/23/06 - Another busy past week and weekend filming. All week I was getting prepped for the shoot Sunday with Lindsay Calkins as Vanessa Trojan. This is the opening credit sequence for the film, so I wanted to get it just right. I had to prepare a fake news clip with me as news reporter Kaye Kendall (shot in my garage against green screen and then composited with a still image of an actual dragstrip facility). Another scene finished. Now all we have left to film are pick up shots and little tie in scenes.

01/15/06 - Was up until 1 in the morning and then only slept until 6- getting everything ready for todays shoot. Things turned out brilliant...better than I hoped. It's not easy creating an alien world. Special thanks to Mike Ditmore for sitting in his uncomfortable alien make-up for 6 hours! To David Nance for an outstanding job of acting and Fanovitch for doing all the make-up for David, Mike, myself and then self applying her own make-up as well. Unbelievable. Over a year and a half after we started filming, Hot Rod Girls Save The World is almost finished (filming).

01/14/06 - Mike Ditmore came over for a make-up fitting and then laid down some drum parts for a new Kill Switch...Klick song called "Killing Spree." Spent the last week prepping for our big shoot tomorrow. Going to try and knock out all the Mooshian planet scenes for Hot Rod Girls Save The World in one day.

01/08/06 - Multi-tasking weekend. Burning Hot Rod Girls Save The World Trailer DVD's, as I work on alien props and masks for our upcoming alien planet shoots, while I read tutorials on green screen technique. It's like run in the studio, set up a DVD burn, run outside and paint a laser gun, run back inside and add latex material to the inside of the alien masks, run back outside and add another coat of paint to another alien mask, take a quick break and read a tutorial, etc, etc.

01/06/06 - Rented "Crash" and "Game Over- Kasparov And The Machine." Both excellent rentals. Crash is a bit quirky and unrealistically philosophical for such racist topics. Still insightful and very emotional. Reminds me of a play put on film. Game Over is about chess champion Kasparov and his battle with the IBM super computer Deep Blue. Very cool editing and music for a documentary. Highly recommended. I also painted alien masks all day and began fine tuning my green screen abilities for several scenes. This is a learn as you go movie project.

01/05/06 - Made the Mooshian planet using Photoshop and Final Cut Pro HD. By moving the faded Photoshop artwork under a circular mask, it gives the appearance of a slowly rotating planet. Figured it out all on my own- Whooop dee doo. This is for a quick set up shot, prior to the Mooshian homeworld scenes. Notice the atmospheric greenish/yellow haze I added using the feathering tool in FCP HD. I haven't settled on a color yet and besides the purple one above I also made green, orange and blue planets. Other potential planets even have cute little moons. It also seems the planets with large features (i.e. gaseous circles in the middle equatorial line) really give the appearance of rotation.

01/04/06 - More editing on Hot Rod Girls.

01/02/06 - Cutting up Halloween masks to get the eye lenses for the aliens in Hot Rod Girls Save The World. I was going for an insectoid/reptilian appearance, but couldn't seem to get the right look. Through out half the movie, the character Buhgabaa is in an Earth Disguise, so we could just have the actor (David Nance) wear sun glasses to cover up the eye area. This will not work for the Mooshian homeworld scenes. This is a silly movie, but having aliens wearing sunglasses on their own planet was a bit too campy...know whad I mean?

01/01/06- HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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