I’m on my way to Vancouver for the last time this season for my days on the Season finale of Eureka. It’s been 3 months of fun with the cast and crew, what a great run and character, I really can’t wait for you guys to see my episodes. No definite air date yet, but I’ll let you know
I owe a LOT OF BLOGS, but honestly there has been no time to do them working on Eureka, flying all over the country everyone other week for conventions, press stuff, doing notes on web video production, writing Guild comics etc. BTW: The glamor of the “jet setting life” gets SUPER old. At a certain point I’m like, “Oh, to be home to actually wash my dirty laundry,” haha. Anyway, I will be posting the finale of The Guild and a season recap blog this weekend, promise
MEANWHILE:
1) My SyFy movie “Red: Werewolf Hunter” is on THIS WEEKEND! October 30th, 9pm Eastern. Please tune in, and if you’re going out to parties DVR. I believe it’s airing on Showcase in Canada, no release dates for other International yet. It’s a fun over the top romp of my stabbing things, I had a GREAT time doing it and I hope you can watch and enjoy
2) Got a chance to play Fallout: New Vegas this weekend and actually picked up my own character in the game! I gotta send love over to Bethesda: They made Veronica totally OP’d. I mean, one shot head explosions EVERYWHERE. Here’s a great video@JPBrowncoat made and linked to me (I owe him a signed headshot for this!):
The other game I did a voice in, “Rock of the Dead,” was also released and am getting lots of Tweets about people enjoying that game too, so happy to be involved in the Video Game world like this!
3) Had a few web videos I’m in come out today. I’m in “The 5 Minute Jeff Lewis Comedy Hour” today. It’s a stand-alone episode, directed by Sean Becker. Really fun to get together with the gang and do a video for fun WARNING: this is slightly NSFW and the other episodes are REALLY NSFW. But they’re funny!
4) The Legend of Neil released a 21 minute EPIC series finale today. (Also NSFW, you’ve been warned!) The Fairy has a great turn here, I’m so proud of Sandeep, he really raised the bar on Web Video today, this episode had 250 VFX shots?!?! Unbelievable. What a great run, I can’t wait to see what he does next, on the web or TV.
So, I’ve been working hard and I guess it’s paying off, yay! I have FOUR projects coming out this month, three video game and one movie, so I thought I’d make a blog post giving you a heads up and dates and all!
Official Release date announced: OCTOBER 30th, Saturday night! This is gonna be really fun, and if we can beat Sharktopus (with your help!) I would really be gleeful, so please set your DVR!!! I worked out a lot for this part, so please please tune in!
Finally got a release date for this project: October 19th (same as Fallout?!!?) This game is from an independent studio, and is just really really fun. You basically kill zombies with a guitar/drum controller. I actually got to get my hands on it at E3. When they pitched it to me to do a voice role (the lead girl character!), I was immediately drawn in by the idea that you could use your Rock Band/Guitar Hero controllers for something OTHER than those games! GENIUS! Who doesn’t have 4 of those instruments lying around! The gameplay is cheesy fun, co-op is a blast too, and Neil Patrick Harris and I reunite to do the lead voices together, so actually…what is the DOWNSIDE here?! The initial release is for Xbox and PS3.
Well, when one of your favorite game franchises calls up and offers you a part AS A COMPANION, what do you do? Well, I had a heart attack, and then I calmly said, “Yes, please.” I am sooo lucky to be voicing the character of “Veronica Santangelo” in the new Fallout game. I can’t tell you how exciting this is, the fact that I’m a playable companion with HUNDREDS of lines of dialogue is absolutely a dream come true. So on October 19th (the same day as Rock of the Dead actually) pick up a copy and enjoy killing me off if you want, haha.
Check out their website for tons of dev diaries, etc…and lots of pre-order links here, it’s gonna be worth it. I would be first in line if I wasn’t IN it already!
Riese is an AWESOME Steampunk web series that was briefly released last year, but was pulled to redo it’s distribution. They’ve just announced over at NewTeeVee that not only is the series re-cut and ready to roll out on Syfy.com later this year, but that I am doing voiceover for their iPhone/iPad game! It’s a REALLY cool project, not only because a game integrated with a web series is an amazing idea. They’ve done a great job with it and I can’t wait for it to be released! (No set release date yet, but soon, I will update!
Whew! That’s a lot of stuff this month, but I really appreciate your supporting my work, thank you in advance, and let me know how you enjoy it!
I wanted to get this blog up before the finale on Tuesday so I can have a dedicated post next week about the season as a whole. And WHOAH has it been a whole season! I simply can’t believe that the finale is Tuesday! EPISODE 10: FESTIVAL OF THE SEA
So, this season I set out to scale back a LOT. Last season we went outdoors waay too often, had waaay too many actors, and it was really hard to accomplish on the budget. So THIS season I tried to only let me crazy imagination out with the idea that we’d throw a huge party at Cheesybeards. Generally, I didn’t REALLY accomplish that, haha, but living through this shoot, I was very happy that I kept my mind at least a WEE BIT under control.
This episode had SO MANY EXTRAS! Thank you each and every person for coming out at 5:30am and joining us in making this episode a possibility. I really hope everyone had a good time filming in that tiny room. The production design and acting are just all soooo amazing, it’s my favorite of the season for sure. SO MUCH IS GOING ON and it’s still under 8 minutes. Really proud of that.
Because I had to learn the ukelele for it, Ollie’s song is really the highlight for me personally. I did a rough draft of the lyrics, but I couldn’t really write it myself because I’m not really a composor, so I enlisted@paulandstorm, the dynamic nerd comedy duo, to help me with the final product. They knocked it out of the park, and took all my gross ideas and made them 10x grosser! We only hear a fraction of the lyrics in the show, but go over to their website, and for the small price of $1.00 you can download “The Pirate’s Feast” and hear the glory of pirate cannibalism go on and on and on. SO GOOD!
Acting-wise, I love Fawkes’ comeuppance (we hired a real stunt guy for that throw!) and the way@wilw played it was just note-perfect: Codex really didn’t know how to deal with the touch of sincerity he was showing her. A special thanks to the other Axis members and@micheleboyd (Riley) for coming out to do their cameos. I wanted to use them more, but it’s web video and there wasn’t room. Next time!
Also, if you enjoyed the plot twist, we have the 8-bit Baby tee that Clara and Tink were selling over at our Jinx store with many other Guild styles, so check it out!
While episode 10 was MY favorite, I’ve heard that the cast likes THIS episode the best. NOW I think it’s really really strong, but after I finished the script some of the funniest stuff wasn’t on the page, we came up with it later on the set and in editing, so the fact that it is a great episode has a lot to do with the performers and the actors and the collaboration of filmmaking in general. Which is, of course, why the art form is so fun: It’s not all on the writer’s shoulders. Most, but not all
I guess when I finished the script, I felt like episode 10 really would eclipse the story in this one, because it’s really a transitional one that ramps up into episode 12. But the acting, especially Vork’s: His agony about the wedding, his insistence on going through with it, and the immense pride about the Guild Hall…Jeff Lewis was really running the gamut for this 6 minutes and he SOLD it. Also, I forgot how funny it was going to be to physically see an in-game wedding from OUT of the wedding. It really turned out as weird and dysfunctional as I thought it would be.
My favorite gag in the episode is Bladezz showing up with that crazy tan! Several days before shooting I had just seen something about Jersey Shore (yes, I live under a nerd rock) and I was so appalled that people think those people are cool that I turned to the makeup woman, Jen, and said, “Can you use your airbrush to make Vince have a horrible tan? We need him douchier.” Luckily she was totally into it. And I really loved how, on the day, Sean and I had a deep discussion whether Vince’s hands/eyes should be tan. I gave into Sean, left them untanned, which is actually funnier. Bladezz is SUCH A DOUCHEBAG when he enters, Vince really nailed it, as he has done all season.
My favorite line of the episode is one of Zaboo’s: “…I’m gonna replace my organs with clockwork and sell myself to a Steampunk museum!” A lot of people said I should cut it out, but I insisted on keeping it, despite probably other people being right, and Sean, the director, totally sold it by making Zaboo wear that watch and try to gnaw on it. That’s HIS watch BTW, so…real dedication there, haha.
And then the cliffhanger…wow. It’s always the joke with me and Sean, “Hey! What’s the VFX for this season’s script?” Well, I decided EARLY on we’d see into the game, and stupidly I had NO TECHNICAL IDEA how that would happen. So…thank you@gregaronowitz for building a 12 foot miniature for us that we could pull out and see…THAT. There will be a special extra on the DVD about how that all happened, and I’ll talk more about it next week Suffice it to say that no web series in history has had a professional artist create something like that. We are truly the most blessed web series online.
OH another thing! We have the ‘Team Cawkes” poster for sale over at Think Geek now! It’s a big, glossy poster and proceeds go to Child’s Play charity, so nab one while you can! If it says “backordered” that just means a few days delay, they’ve sold a ton more than they expected and just need to roll and box them!
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