A Jolly Snowflake Day, indeed!

Before you read anything else, just play this CH Snowflake Day song in your background.

There, now we are in the sprit. Unfortunately, though, I was not able to get anymore Snowflake Day themed items into CafePress, although I have tons of ideas, which I promise will make the time, come next Snowflake Day.

What I can tell you all is that I have done a count on the frames of storyboarding I have finished, and am just shy of 600 frames, of an estimated 900. Quite a milestone for me, and it makes me quite happy that my jokes have survived onto storyboard, plus just overtime, they haven’t gotten dull to me. Hopefully, you will all approve.

I sincerely expect production to speed up once I get back into animating the show, instead of drawing it out on paper for storyboards. I have my own deadlines I am giving myself, but another semester of college is right around the corner. Once I can finish the storyboards (hopefully before college comes) I will start recording voices, so I may have the animatic ready for final cutting of any material, although I anticipate nothing to be cut. It really is nice to not have a 22-minute final cut of the episode to worry about. I can make it as long as I want, but I am aiming for a 22-minute outcome. We will see.

I suppose the only gift I have to give you all, is the best news that I could ever hear (away from a Clone High or Mission Hill second season). It’s straight from Billy West’s mouth. Futurama is Back!

January 19th, 2006
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HERE’S GREAT NEWS!
Here’s the official word on Futurama!!
David X. phoned me about an hour ago and said that this Futurama project
is a done deal! Here’s the word from DX—
There are 4 DVD movies that we’ll start recording at the end of July or
August.Full feature length FUTURAMA movies.
Everybody is excited to get back together–as I am!

Into the Future,
Billy

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From his message boards on billywest.com

Give me a moment to compose myself. And change my pants.

Alright, In other news…

More great art from the LiveJournal message board.Jenn (pac) posted this great art piece while being moved by the emotional song heard in “Litter Kills” called “Meaning of Good-bye” by James Stewart. You can listen to the song by going here. Borrow the song for just a day, just to listen.

Also pictures were posted from the recently held Clone High Michigan Marathon. You can check them out by going here.Here are some posts about the shindig. We served 18 pounds of taco meat (roughly 250 tacos), 4 lbs. of cocktail wieners, and 2 large bowls of punch. Our party started around 8:30 and lasted till after 3:30. We watched all the episodes several times, served lots of Snowflake-themed foods, and had 2 groups of people go caroling with us. My best friend finished writing lyrics for 6 of the songs listed on the commercial for “JFK Sings the Er, Ah Holiday Hits”. We can only hope that they will post the lyrics they made up for the JFK songs.

Also levasseuraptor is the coolest because they have their high school yearbook senior quote be: “It’s just not Snowflake Day without a lamb taco.”

Possibly some big news on the USA release of the Clone High DVD, as Amazon.com has finally put up a page relating to Clone High. No release day is set, but for those who, for some reason, didn’t want to go through Amazon.ca, perhaps this will help. I’ll see if I can report back more information later.

In other news, January 26 is the day of the non-offensive, all-inclusive… Snowflake Day. I will try to update this site with CH episode 14 images as my present to you all.

Speaking of Snowflake Day presents, someone on livejournal has already gotten theirs. User katiet_13 made this colorful gift for their guy friend.

What a lucky friend. And hey, what better way to get together to celebrate Snowflake Day than to have a marathon, say, in Michigan. That’s what this group did this year at a Michigan Sci-Fi convention. Saturday night they had the party. I hope to see some pictures because they promised to have: tacos, punch, cocktail wieners, eye patches, and caroling!

Maybe even some celebratory Cabbage-patchin’ (bursts into dance to that rhythmic beat).

Don’t forget to get your celebratory Snowflake Day greeting cards!

Another update to mention that I am still working on my storyboards. Drawing out this scene is spanning quite awhile, just like an earlier scene seemed to, but not because it is dragging on, but because there are just plenty of camera changes and actions to draw.

I am having fun, but am not finding as much free time to draw out the storyboards as I had planned for my semester break, as I have found that working is a good idea, and money is necessary in a daily life.

Also, I have watched my first disc of Mission Hill and am plenty enjoying it. I was so close to just listening to all of the commentaries when I first got it, but now I am savoring the moment and listening to them as they come in order.

Also, the Venture Brothers DVD is coming in a couple of months and you can bet that I’ll be first in line at my local store getting it.

I also want to state here a big “Thank You” to those who have sent me emails stating they are awaiting the episodes of Clone High and Mission Hill. That really does help me along the lonely nights of animating. That, and music from and inspired by the hit shows “Clone High” and “Mission Hill”. Wow, that sounds like a sales pitch…

Also note that I have changed the official website address for this site to http://mhchrefuge.com/ but the old site address will work just fine.