Batman Versus The Terminator Teaser

For those who asked, this is why I haven't been all too active on the site. Sure, we have our ins-and-outs at many times as members, but for the most part with me, it's been creating this.

Now bear with me as I shed light on this projects backstory, because if you're still one of those people who look at the Spill Crew as some form of celebritism, and not as human beings (or robots); then consider this blog a name dropping air-raid.

It all started with this badass blog entry from Co-Host, where he went off with an idea that sadly was never meant to be. I had told him that I was determined to make it a comic, wherein he replied, "Hell yeah, let's sell it at the street corner for 50 bucks!" "No", I says to'em, I says, "This. Will.Happen".

Sharpened pencils. Newly bought drawing pens. Shitloads of sliced tree. My journey began. I sat my ass in a computer chair, leant forward; and doodle I did. Sooner than later my floor had turned into a ball pit of screwed up paper. Late nights turned into late days, caffeine became my blood supply, and numerous loops of the full soundtrack to The Terminator (which from then on haunts me to this day) pushed my procrastination to the side, cranking out...

... crap. Yes. Crap. There are far more than these. I have almost 200 process pages of character concepts and page layouts that I just never got around to finishing.

As time went on, Co-Host'd ask how this comic was going. I'd actually outright lie to him, saying, "Uhhh.. yeah, sure; it's going pretty good". The whole thing turned into another situation of 'talk the talk now walk the walk', and I was crawling.

During the second half of 2008, I gave animation a try, not expected to gain a knack for it...


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... but from creating just a mere 4 second animation, my next step hit me. Revival. I gotta make that shit an animation.

Oh, how ambitious and naive I was.

I had no background experience in animating, I didn't own Flash, and even if I did I was too lazy to figure it out. Like my passed animated work, the creation process went like this...

Illustrate the frames in Adobe InDesign ---> Export the frames as JPEGs ---> Bring the JPEGs into the animation function within Photoshop ---> Render, Render, Render.

Anybody who knows anything about these programs is facepalming in their seat right about this moment.

Although done on a computer, my technique was primitive. I used that same technique to create what I have now as a teaser trailer.

But before I get to it, here a few disclaimers. This still isn't finished, and to be honest it's hard trying to conceive that I'll ever go back to it. I'm one man, not a studio or a group. So much research and development punchlining to points of realisation that whatever shot I have in my head that I think will look badass just happens to be beyond my capabilities. You never know, though. Also, there's supposed to be a soundtrack in this, but no matter where I upload it, it's mute. I'll have to go back and do an autopsy on the file.

Anywho, I'll shut the fuck up.

And yes, that is my real name at the begining of the video, there ya go; rabbits outta the hat.