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PSA2, PS3 Themes, First Night, and Ingus 9

Posted by KupaMan - December 5th, 2007


For starters, I'd like to thank the NG guys for front-paging my new cartoon, An Ingus PSA: Shoplifting. If you haven't watched it yet, and refuse to watch any of the better cartoons on the front page for two minutes, I suggest you check it out.

Second of all, I'd like to share with any of my PS3-owning fans -- or anyone else who wants to have unrecognizable files -- this nifty little Ingus Theme I made. It says version 1.0 there, but it's actually 2.0 if you check the info on it. While you're there, also please check out the LittleBigPlanet Theme that my friend Eli Brown made (who also did the credits music for PSA2). To use these themes, make a folder on whatever storage device you're using (flash drive, SD card, whatever) titled "PS3" and then inside that folder make another folder titled "THEME," and then put the themes in there. You should then be able to install them onto your PS3 under the Theme Settings menu. Also, if any of you have made your own themes, I'd love to see them. That site is a great place to upload your themes to and get inspiration from.

Thirdly, if you're a Spokanite who wants to challenge yourself by making a cartoon or short film in 48 hours this weekend, look into the First Night Spokane's 48-Hour Film Festival. Everybody's good friend, Jeremy Lokken, has participated for the past two years with Twist of Fate and Mr. Saves The Day and will do so again this year. I will continue my streak of not doing it yet again, this time because of more than just forgetfulness or laziness. Anyway, I encourage everybody here in the Spokane area to try and participate in this. Lokken has been the only animator submitting stuff, so I think it will impress people to see how well some of us can do in such little time, but it is film first and animation second, so if you want to just do a regular old Handi-Cam movie, that works too. If you're interested, it's this Friday to sign up and start. All the details you need to know are on the link posted above. For all you who aren't quite sure what a "Spokane" is, don't worry about this paragraph.

And finally, I'm just giving the heads up that I am kind of working on Ingus: Episode 9 again. I still just have the storyboards of the first chunk finished, but they're pretty good storyboards. It's roughly the first third of the movie, and it's probably just under 2 minutes long, which means the whole thing might end up being around 6 minutes. I'm thinking it will run a little longer, but we'll keep our expectations low for the best results. Below is a screen-shot of an Ingus storyboard. Feel free to post any questions or comments below pertaining to anything I did or did not say here.

PSA2, PS3 Themes, First Night, and Ingus 9


Comments

first comment.

You really had to race for it, I see.

We'got red ones, blue ones, green ones, orange ones, yeller ones...

ooh yea .. i am soo geting this on my ps3 :)

cool ps3 theme

It should be noted that I made it for 1080i/p HD screens. The SD version works and stuff, but doesn't look as nice.

are u switching to brush tool ?

Not for Ingus. It's just for storyboards and sketching. I hate using the pen/line tools though, so I'd like to use the brush tool in other things more.

i think the brush tool is the best over the pencil tool for animation like yours. But that's just me.

Brush tool looks nice for a lot of things. I originally used lines for Ingus because I could just re-use elements easier. Now I just kind of regret that, because it makes things less fun to do, and I have to redrew stuff in lines to stay consistent.

Everyone who says "first comment" on anything, should go take a bath in a woodchipper. On a more positive note, whats this next one going to be about?

An allegorical representation of the 1950s McCarthy blacklisting, in the vein of The Crucible, and its impact on modern entertainment.

I'm just shitting. People are going to get hurt, Ingus is going to be dumb, and there will be blood. Oh yes, there will be blood...