Hero Heights

Hey Folks! It’s been a while since we posted. But we’ve been really busy what with our re-pitch and everything! It turns out we may be running a little long on the short, so we may have to chop it down to size.

But before we make any drastic changes we are going to make a rough animatic. Which means we will be syncing up the storyboard art to a scratch recording of the dialogue. Last week I went into the recording booth and belted out all the lines from the script. It was fun but exhausting! Hats off to voice actors! They really work hard for their money! Bill had a good time directing me from outside the booth.

I also did a rough slug of the boards. Which basically means I determined how many frames of screen time each drawing would get. Some panels were held for as long [Read more…]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the stars of HERO HEIGHTS, Smart Alec, Strikeout, and Olympia! It’s been over a week and we figured it’s about time we showed you what they look like. It was hard to choose which image to post from the thousands of drawings we’ve done for HERO HEIGHTS but we feel this one should be perfect for the unveiling. We haven’t done anything in color yet, so don’t even ask!

Hey folks! It’s the start of week two of production on Hero Heights and already we have a “GREAT MOMENTS IN ANIMATION” moment. Last Friday Bill and I met with our almighty and exalted Executive Producer, Larry Huber. He’s an industry veteran who’s been around since the days of Windsor McCay and is our Yoda here at Oh Yeah! We had a few questions about our storyboards and he was more than happy to help a couple of punks out. I mentioned to a smiling Larry that I come from a mainly Feature Animation background and I had a few concerns about working with LIMITED animation. Larry’s smile vanished and was replaced by a look of disbelief coupled with anger. Like if I had just farted. He sprang out of his chair and cried out “LIMITED ANIMATION?!! LIMITED ANIMATION?!!! How dare you use that term to describe what we do?!!! [Read more…]

Hi everyone! Raul Aguirre and Bill Ho here, sometimes referred to as “The Cheech And Chong of Animation.” Our first week on production of Hero Heights has been busy! Right now we are in the process of transforming our pitch board to a production board. We are adding panels here and there to break down the action more clearly for the overseas studio to follow.

We are so happy to be here and would like to thank Fred Seibert, Larry Huber, and Eric Homan for recognizing talent when they see it. Ha Ha. We will definitely try our hardest to produce a kick-butt cartoon for these folks and all of you wonderful people out there!

And now a little something about our cartoon.

What would it be like to grow up in a suburban community where everyone has superpowers? Where people aren’t burdened with the responsibility of saving the world or [Read more…]