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So it’s finally done thanks to a lot of hard work with some very talented friends who helped me arrange my song and take it from idea/tune/lyrics to a full-fledged and downloadable song. Available (name your price) at The Kill9 Bandcamp Store as well as iTunes and Amazon!
It was a lot of work, and delayed since I had to move and start a new job, but… It’s here! My World of Warcraft-inspired song about the Worgen. Many wonderful people contributed to this project. I want to thank them and also the fans that donated money to help make this happen. Next up, a portal song!
It’s been a long time, eh? I stopped blogging for awhile to focus on some IT studies and continue Twitter-bombing. It seemed the right time to get back into writing on here though when I started work on “Werewolves with Top Hats,” a song (and music video) I am working on after playing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Rolling a Worgen character (a Rogue in this case) has led to many fun adventures. In short time, I came to realize nearly me entire guild had one of these werewolves-with-top-hats as one of their tons. They are fun to play! That fact, plus the adorable Penny Arcade strip about it ultimately hit me with “Boomer’s Day Off” style inspiration. I ended up coming up with a tune, and later lyrics. I quickly recruited my DJ/bassist friend John Jolley to help me turn it into a full-fledged song.
In a short period of time, we’ve managed to put together some great costumes thanks to Ben Peterson (”Zedd” in ./Shutdown and “Smoker” in Boomers) and his wife Kathy. They not only got us costumes on a small budget (using the Internet and thrift stores), but Kathy even made us some werewolf masks for the female dancers. So far we’ve rehearsed and filmed the dance routine, but the singing portion (starring moi) occurs this Saturday and the following weekend we shoot Toby McBane’s story segments.
Here’s a sneak peak of what to expect (a clip from our dance rehearsal):
The above video is from my personal YouTube channel where I’ve decided I’ll start posting little production diaries on occasion. That way I don’t muddle the Kill9 channel up with a bunch of random clips. Expect more updates on this blog and on my MichelleKenobi channel as production continues!
None of this would have been possible without generous donations from Scott, a.k.a. DJWhiskey71 who didn’t want financial hardships to keep our Kill9 YouTube channel quiet and sad. While devoting much of my time, money and energy to my nerdier technical studies, I have missed being creative. We’re all grateful to Scott for his contributions which have paid for the costumes as well as for food to feed the cast and crew.That’s all for now, but I will post again soon with photos from the actual dance shoot we shot outside our friend Pyro’s house last Saturday. Oh, and expect the actual music video to premiere on our channel in early March.
Haven’t posted in ages, but if you keep up with my Twitter then you know I’ve just been swamped with work and an A+ night class most of this month. Here’s my latest Kill9 update for all the Boomer’s and ./shutdown fans! <3
Ran into Earl Alexander (voice of Louis in “Left 4 Dead”) and we got to chatting. He is going to be doing an interview with us tomorrow. Yay!
A video I shot at Comic-Con 2009 with Battlestar Galactica star Richard Hatch and SoulGeek.com founder, Dino Andrade.
Check out the Princess, a game tournament and signing by the guys behind NewGrounds and the video games Castle Crashers, Alien Hominid and Game 3. All at The Behemoth booth #5029 at San Diego Comic-Con 2009. This video is one of my freelance gigs at Con this year. I was also hired by Rifftrax to film their panel (a rousing success).
Boomer’s Day Off Co-Creator and Jump Leads writer/creator, Ben Paddon at Comic-Con 2009. Ben’s a good friend of mine, so I thought I’d film a quick vid for the fans of his web-comic, Jump Leads. Ben actually ended up selling out of his Issue 1 print. Congrats, Ben!
Hooray! Comic-Con is here again. To celebrate, I have posted the first half of a famous Con tour I taped with Mike Nelson back in 2007. This was originally for Stage6 back when I was the Creative Producer at DivX. In case you didn’t know, Mike is famous for his role in Mystery Science Theater 3000 as well as the wildly successful new Rifftrax. Enjoy.
I will be attending Comic-Con this year with a Press badge and plan to do a little work for Rifftrax as well as Behemoth Games. My schedule is pretty flexible, so if you want to meet up send me a text message. If you don’t have my number, just send me an @michellekenobi on Twitter. I will also be attending X-Sanguin on Saturday night (a tradition of mine). See you there!
Here’s a little blast from the past. A quick tutorial of Dr. DivX I edited a couple of years ago.