Yes, yes. I know. Once again I have forgotten to post for a bit. But fear not. It is I. I come back to you now, to once again save you from your utter boredom and give you your much needed Sam-information fix. So onto the fix…



Not much has happened.

In other news, I’ve started uploading videos to YouTube weekly on the Umbrellaman Studios account. A while back we finally ended the Island Wars movie project that was so endlessly plagued with problems. In it’s wake, we’ve decided to upload different scenes and clips to YouTube. Since we never eneded up releasing the film, none of these scenes are final or edited entirely, and many include old takes of the scenes mixed with the more complete ones, and I am so fed up with the project there’s no way I’m finishing the editing now. However, at least now you can see parts of it. The first uploaded was this week with a portion of the famous Jimmy Rap. Watch it below!

You can also download the entire Jimmy Rap mp3 here. Do it, it’s AWESOME! No joke, pretty great.

The next video coming up is going to be either the Sexy News studio scene, the Sexy News news scene, the torture scene, or else the 15 minute unedited clip of Jimmy messing up one single line probably 150 times. While he’s reading it directly from the script.

In the meantime, here’s a clip of Jordan playing the Tetris theme on his accordion from a homecoming party/bonfire thing for UMW last night. It’s epic. Enjoy!

Happy Trails,
Sam.

So let’s talk film.

Don’t say it! No… NO… don’t! Stop it! I know you were about to say it. Don’t even think it! Don’t ask about when Island Wars is coming out. It was a piece of crap test film Will and I started making after ninth grade. It was a terrible idea that we ran with once people accidentally found out about it and loved the car chase. And the school newspaper coverage didn’t help either. Basically Will and I went to go finish the movie yesterday. Yes, that’s right, finish it. So we went into Pinnacle (the worst editing program in history) and began compiling the edited scenes into one huge movie file. But we ran into a problem once we realized whole segments of the movie were missing. In fact entire finished segments of the movie (including the car chase scene) are now missing. In the time it would take to find everything and edit it again we could easily start a better film project, something real. For Will and I, this was the last straw, and the final message from God that this project just isn’t meant to be.

So that’s what we’re going to do. I may look for footage on and off when I’m bored, but we’re not finishing the terribleness that is Island Wars. Don’t be surprised if in a few years I do find all the footage and begin posting segments on YouTube, though.

We are looking forward to producing the new post-apocalyptic drama next Fall. But for now, we are going to start producing the McGrimmy’s as our main thing. Except we are completely restarting and revamping the series to engage a broader audience. Mel Kobran is also gonna help us out with filming, so that should make things work about 2.7 billion times more smoothly. We’ll start releasing them to the internets before Summer ends. In fact, we actually have a mini sort-of production team including more than just me and Will to complete these two projects. Whether we’ll keep the name Umbrellaman Studios remains to be seen.

Happy Trails,

Sam.

Enough with the excuses, the point is we are finishing it and showing it this summer. Anyone who follows either the Island Wars or Umbrellaman Studios blog has probably seen the screenshots taken from a quick graphics test I made, and I figured I’d give you just a short little clip of it. And yes, I mean short. So enjoy the 15 second graphics test with nonsensical sound effects:

Island Wars Space Test #3 from Sam Rodgers on Vimeo.

This week’s Dark Territory LOST Podcast will be up either later today or early tomorrow. More later…

Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.