Welcome Ever Smiles

The idea of starting my own blog struck me as slightly self-indulgent. I'm under no delusions that anyone actually cares about the trivial events that fatten my days or the inner workings of a mind best left without an internet megaphone. But there were two very important reasons I felt this might be useful...

1) For someone who considers himself a writer, I don't do enough of it. Hammering out screenplays tends to focus more on brainstorming than the actual act of writing. I miss it. I feel out of practice. I used to write just to write. I'd like to fall in love with it again instead of worrying about deadlines, page counts, and proper formatting.

2) Sometimes shit gets bananas and I just can't update the site as often as I'd like to. But I do want anyone that's interested to be able to see what kind of progress we're making on our projects and this seems like a really great and informal way to do that.

So I want to start by giving a brief overview of where we're at with everything. Our next film is called "The Surprise Party" and we actually shot it months ago. But editing the HD footage proved to be a more taxing experience on my computer than I had anticipated. A complete overhaul of my post-production set-up was necessary and I'm still in the middle of getting everything up and running. The goal is to be cutting the film together within the next couple of weeks. I know the synopsis of it on the site is vague and maybe even a bit misleading. I'm okay with that. =-)

Honestly, I'm really excited to see how this one comes together. The production was a departure from the way I'm used to working and stylistically it's a total 180 from Batman. Once it's done and available I'd love to go into more detail about all the behind the scenes stuff but it's kind of impossible to talk about anything right now without giving away some pretty significant spoilers. Once I start editing you'll see a lot more info about this one start to trickle out.

Right now it looks like the next film we're going to shoot is a sequel to "Batman: Black & White" (which you can watch on the site if you haven't already). It's still in the very earliest stages of development but a few pieces of info are scattered about and there's a post or two on the forum.

I'm also writing & drawing a four part comic book mini-series called "Legion". I'm growing increasingly less interested in traditional origin stories so I wanted to try a different approach to introducing these characters and this world. If it all goes well we hope to have additional mini-series & one-shots to follow it (hopefully involving other artists and writers). We're also very interested in doing a film with these characters and putting it online in a serial format. But right now the focus is on this first series and there's still A LOT of work to do. As of this moment I'm not sure if this will be out before or after the next Batman.

The reason we're even putting this information out there is that I'd like to give a glimpse of what the process is like from start to finish on these films/comics/etc. So in addition to regular blog updates (I hope!) and forum posts (join! it's free!) the plan is to include video diaries and other behind the scenes content so you can watch how it all comes together.

Alright... the obligatory first post is done. Now we can have some fun.