Sparkles and Gloom

From left to right: Jessica Di Cicco, Annie Mumolo, Kari Wahlgren, Anne Walker, and Melissa Wolfe

And man did we have fun!!! Why, you might ask, was our record so much fun? Well, for starters, we had four of the most talented women in the business working with us. They would be Jessica Di Cicco (Gloom), Annie Mumolo (Pixie), Kari Wahlgren (Sparkles), and our voice director extraordinaire, Ginny McSwain. Then, a bit later, Kevin Michael Richardson arrived. He, in my slightly professional opinion, is one of the most talented male voice actors in the business. Score!

Besides the mega stellar super great acting abilities of the cast, there was a terrific camaraderie that I felt in the room. Call it cheese ball and cue up the string quartet, but I’m serious here, folks. The way we all clicked together was something I couldn’t have predicted, and something I am so appreciative of. I couldn’t think of [Read more…]

Once Sparkles and Gloom accidentally switch powers, it’s only natural they’d switch wardrobes as well! (Especially for the Geevil School talent show…)

Personally, I think Sparkles is rockin’ the patent leather gogo boots and fishnets.

-Anne

In a recent blog posting, Samsquatch creator Adam Muto refrences our earlier post about killing off characters, and mourns the loss of his dear unicorn, “Trick Corn, World’s Scuzziest Unicorn.”

We can only offer our heartfelt condolences.

And say HAHA! We get to keep ours. [Read more…]

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Today was audition day! Anne and I had a blast listening to everyone’s different interpretations of “Sparkles”, “Gloom”, and “Pixie”. Hearing professional voice actors read words that had since only existed on a page…it really can’t be beat. And we got to press a niftybutton to talk to the actors in the booth!

During the session, Anne and I also learned about palm cysts, donating plasma, and liver cleansing. Justin Brinsfield, our supreme sound technician, has survived for 8 days without food, sustaining himself only with THIS FUN FILLED DRINK. YUM! YUM!!

Justin, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably made it to Day 9. Just two more days till you can drink chicken broth and OJ!!

Melissa (and Anne too!)

You might rememer this Pixie from a few posts ago…she’s gone through the “Flash” wringer and now she’s in color! (And she also has ears now, cause I decided she looked really weird and alien without them.)

More to come!

-Anne

In our painful yet necessary cutting session last week, Mr. Sunny Honey Bear, The Happy Rainbow Dance Team’s cheerful mascot-turned-killing-machine had to go. Ironically, this sketch Anne did was of the two girls facing off against Sunny Honey Bear before we even had to consider cutting his brief yet sadistic part.

Cue: saddest violin music ever.

In town where 6:40’s all you got, every second counts, and as it turned out, Sunny Honey Bear was playing with borrowed time… That’s not to say that I wasn’t gently weeping in Anne’s office as we killed Sunny Honey last week along with 10 or so of our other darlings. Rest assured: The short is still called “Sparkles AND Gloom”. They’ve made the final cut. And to those characters who didn’t dodge the bullet…BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, SUCKAS!!

Melissa

Everyone’s a critic here on Sparkles and Gloom. Especially Sparkles, who’s very particular about how she’s portrayed onscreen.

Today, though, is a day for Fungus. The band, that is. Three members, three five-point turnarounds. They’re pretty low-key, as long as you let them scream–er–sing as loudly as they want, they don’t care what their turnarounds look like. Miss Sparkles, though…that’s another story.

Not that she’s a diva or anything…but if you don’t draw Sparkles to her liking, there’s a chance that a pink, sparkly-heart-and-flower Blackberry could connect with the thicker part of your head.

Lucky for us, Sparkles’ aim leaves a lot to be desired. Plus, our animation disc doubles as a shield.

-Anne and Melissa

I created this for Mr. Larry Huber a few days ago, after he expressed concern that Sparkles’ self-color-line legs might not be easily distinguished in animation. But as he pointed out when I showed it to him earlier this morning, this isn’t a walk cycle, but a “twinkle” cycle.

Just imagine the crazy sound effects we could dub over the animation, making for endless entertainment! *takes breath* Ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a…..!!!

Or maybe just endless annoyance.
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Exciting times today at lunch…While walking back to another heart-pounding afternoon of cutting massive sections of the SnG storyboard, Melissa and I happened to spot none other than Dave Coulier in the Nickelodeon lobby. That’s right…the one and only “Uncle Joey” on Full House, the voice of that lovable foam puppet, Woody the Woodchuck, the source of inspiration for Alanis Morisette’s angriest of angry songs…TOO CRAZY.

Now, since it was decided at our re-pitch that the board was several minutes too long–enough with the random off-topic posts and back to the cutting board!

-Anne