While prepping an animated genre feature film like Lester, it's a good idea to to study how these kinds of projects come and go. Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise was an anime colossus released during the Manga Video heyday with amazing art and zero (almost) story. It was a movie made entirely by animators [...]
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Writing a feature film script in 3 days
on(I'm blogging more regularly as I prep an indie action-comedy animation I wrote called Lester. Most people think it's too ambitious to do something like this, but they said that when I did Contour as well. So I'm blogging about it, hoping that more of you will try it out someday. Lester will be a [...]
Action and Reaction Heroes
onI like action films. I like them so much that I make them. My career started out mostly making action comedies. Then I turned 30, had to pay bills, etc, so I made a depressing one called Death Grip. Comments about the film were usually along the lines of, "I wanted more toilet humor." I [...]
Kung Fu vs. Zombies – Making Infinitely Scalable Action Movies
onA detailed breakdown of how a tiny team re-created the classic battle scene from Big Trouble in Little China
Eric Jacobus’s SuperAlloy Interactive Behind the Mocap for Sandbox Fighting Game
onEric Jacobus's action design company SuperAlloy Interactive is now collaborating with Jacob Dzwinel on his sandbox fighting game. Jacobus is handling the choreographed action design and developing moves as well as performing for the main character using SuperAlloy's in-house motion capture system. https://twitter.com/jacobdzwinel/status/1152274594377740289
Amazing Blindsided Fan Art from @LordAri
onGot us thinking about a comic book now... Credit: @LordAri
Check out this Leon-style poster for Blindsided: The Game
onDesigned by Helton Carvalho. Blindsided: The Game releases May 17, 2018 on YouTube. You will be able to watchfree of charge here: youtube.com/stuntpeople
How To Fight Like Kratos with Eric Jacobus
onI had the insane privilege of working on Santa Monica Studio's monumental Playstation 4 game God of War doing motion capture for Kratos, and the team put together this interview about how we approached Kratos' combat in the game. [T]hey didn’t exactly hire a UFC fighter to do the motion capture for Kratos. Instead, they turned to [...]
Death Grip gets its long-awaited YouTube release – Watch it now!
onIf you haven't had the opportunity to see Death Grip yet, you're missing out on 90 minutes of martial arts goodness. But there's good news - now you can catch it for just $3.99 on YouTube! Watch Eric Jacobus (Mortal Kombat Legacy, ABCs of Death 2) and Johnny Yong Bosch (Bleach, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) slug it out Hong [...]