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Posted by sirjeffofshort - May 14th, 2009


Well, here's the announcement NG, later in the month we will be recording several sketches with Matt Besser. As a fantastic Actor, Comedian, the founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade along with Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts, and one of the pioneers of modern improv comedy he was a natural first choice for our special guests.

He may be recognized by most of you from television shows such as "Reno 911." "The Sarah Silverman Show," "The Mighty B," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "The Bernie Mac Show," and many more as well as the two shows he created for comedy central "The Upright Citizens Brigade," and the fake debate show "Crossballs." Others may also recognize him from his various film roles such as Dave, the guitar player from "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story."

This is a huge deal for myself and the rest of the Sketched crew as we have been following him as fans of his work for many years now, and an opportunity to work with such a talented comedian does not come by every day.

I highly recommend checking out his acting reel below (sorry it's just a link, I couldn't embed a Myspace video.) as well as some of my favorite clips of his.

Till next time, keep on rockin' NG.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse action=vids.individual&videoid=7477674

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Posted by sirjeffofshort - May 6th, 2009


Hey everyone, just wanted to get word out there that Bill started a "Sketched" facebook fan club thingy... I'm not entirely sure how those things work, but you can check it out here...

SKETCHED FACEBOOK THINGY

While you're there you could probably hunt him down and be his friend and whatnot... maybe... as you can tell I have no idea how facebook works.

In other news we have a name for our "Sketched" special guest comedian and as soon as things are confirmed I will make the announcement!


Posted by sirjeffofshort - April 24th, 2009


Hey everyone, I just wanted to get the word out that Smirk Studios, a contributor to the Sketched series, has started his very own Interweb Radio Show dedicated completely to Flash animation and independent cartoons.

The show is recorded live every Saturday night at 7pm California time (that's 10pm for all you east coast folks, and various other times for all you folks in the middle and beyond those time zones.) and there is a neato little chat room right on the site so your input and information can realy be a huge part of the show.

Last week I did an interview for the show and this week he has Aaron Simpson of Cold Hard Flash scheduled to be on so it should be interesting. So if you get a chance stop on by and show your support tomorrow night. As the show grows I think it could be a really great way for people to spread information about their work and find out about the flash authors they enjoy.

So as to invite SOME user input onto this post, I ask you, "Who would you like to hear an interview with in the future?"

...oh! Here's a drawing! I drew it many years ago... I'm not quite sure what it's about, but it was fun to draw.

Flash, Internet Radio and You


Posted by sirjeffofshort - April 12th, 2009


We put out a new cartoon.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
491145

Sweet deal.

In other news, next month's cartoon is coming along swimmingly. We will be featuring the talents of General Ivan (Winner of last month's Voice Acting Contest) FatKidWitAJetPack (Organizer of the contest), Appsro (All around awesome dude and hilarious actor), and Va10r65 (Epic speech giver extraordinaire), so be sure to check it out in mid to late may.

Anyways hope you enjoy the new cartoon. Till next time, rock on NG.

-Jeff


Posted by sirjeffofshort - April 3rd, 2009


Hey everyone,

Some of the Sketched crew and I are making plans and I figured I would see if Newgrounds or any of its users was planning anything for San Diego ComicCon 09 this July.

Right now it's looking like myself and Bill will be joining our friend Karl (a very talented film maker from Massachusetts) wandering the floor on Sunday, July 26. We will most likely be burning and handing out FREE promotional copies of some of our projects including Sketched DVDs complete with extras, outtakes, commentaries and deleted sketches. So be sure to keep an eye out for us if you would like to nab one of those.

The main question here is "What is everyone else in the NG community planning for ComicCon?" if anything at all. Ring in and let me know, and of course I'll provide more details as to our proposed ComicCon adventures as the date nears.

And now I leave you with a joke comic book cover I drew years ago when I was supposed to be teaching a class...

Till next time New Grounds.

ComicCon '09...?


Posted by sirjeffofshort - March 30th, 2009


Hey everyone,

So I'm at a bit of an impasse gaming wise as most games I have been playing lately seem to be falling a bit flat in my opinion. I recently played Gears 2, and although the gameplay was intense amounts of fun, the story left me with a feeling of "A lot of that seemed kinda pointless."

I'm really looking forward to playing the new Silent Hill (as soon as gamefly gets its ass in gear and sends it to me,) as well as (although to a lesser extent) Resident Evil 5. I know, I'm a huge survival horror nerd as well as an even nerdier RPG nut, but I guess for me it all boils down to story.

My two standby's at the moment are Left 4 Dead and Rock Band 2 (drums). I enjoy these games a lot but for the most part they are time wasters to me. I log on to XBL (If anyone wants to play either by all means let me know) and spend an hour or two a week playing these, but they're not the kind of total immersion games I have grown to love.

So I guess in the end what I'm asking is "What are other people out there playing and enjoying?" Seriously, any suggestions? I have a 360, a Wii, and a PS2 (I will probably upgrade when a new Final Fantasy is released... I know... nerd)

Oh hey! Here's an old ass videogame drawing! Haha, I never do fan art so I totally forgot I had it, but hell, it matches the post so here it is.

Pertaining to games


Posted by sirjeffofshort - March 27th, 2009


THE MURDER

So last night I became privy to the fact that literally a block away from my house was a murder scene.

Scary stuff...

For those of you who can't be bothered with links (as I am often times guilty myself) basically three dudes (possibly dressed as cops) forced their way into this guy's apartment in the early evening (around 5) and continued to rob and murder him.

We had no idea it had happened until later, but Lori came home from work and was all like "Somethin's going on at the apartments down the street."

I know what you're thinking "That's LA for ya," But seriously, we live in the supposed "Safe" part of LA so people are freaking out.

THE SKETCHES

The new Sketch is almost finished and will be going out in mid April. it will probably be finished prior to that, but we have our reasons for pushing the release date, sorry.

The next Sketch will actually be different as NONE of the usual Sketched actors will be doing voices. Instead we have chosen 4 talented voices from the New Grounds community to act out a sketch written by the crew in our first ever "Guest Sketch." We will be featuring the talents of General Ivan (Winner of last month's Voice Acting Contest) FatKidWitAJetPack (Organizer of the contest), Appsro (All around awesome dude and hilarious actor), and Va10r65 (Epic speech giver extraordinaire)

THE FARTS

A fart joke collab... I am actually kinda serious pants about this. It started when Bill and I were talking about our favorite fart jokes that we have written but had to cut out of things for the sake of being mature and versatile comedians. Then we thought "screw it, let's string them all together and post it on NG, in an ultimate celebration of immaturity." Because (and I mean no offense by this, but let's face it.) New Grounds is kinda the perfect place for that kinda thing.

Then I thought, I bet other people out there have some pretty great flatulent funnies as well. And thus the idea was born.

Rest assured, if we did start such a thing only the best, most well thought out jokes would make it. Every entry would need to be something with a solid premise, setup, and punchline taking the joke "beyond the gas" ... of course, I can kid myself all I want, but at the end of the day it's still a fart joke. Haha.

It's still just a thought, but I figured I would throw it out there. I mean, I can't ALWAYS be about witty dialogue and situational humor right?

I'll leave you today with one of the first short films Noreasta Productions ever made that never quite made it to release due to sound and light problems (with a pretty nice fart joke in there too starting at about 2:30).

Till next time,

Keep on rockin' New Grounds.

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Posted by sirjeffofshort - March 13th, 2009


So I'm really loving the NG awards system and, as I have dubbed it (due to the fact that most of my time spent earning award points is when I'm bored in my office), my boredom score (as opposed to the nerd score on my Xbox). My only thought on the system is that it would be cool if there were an easy place to find all of the games that utilize the system once more of them are implementing it. Thus far there are only Portal Defenders and Thing Thing Arena, right?

In other news I have to fly to Florida next week due to a death in the family, so I will be around the orlando-ish area next week. Next month's cartoon is well on schedule however so there shouldn't be too much effect that way.

That's about all from my neck of the woods at the moment. Today I leave you with the trailer for a zombie movie I acted in a few years ago.

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Till next time, rock on New Grounds.


Posted by sirjeffofshort - March 4th, 2009


That's right ladies and gentlemen. CHECK IT OUT HERE if you haven't had a chance yet and let us know what you think.

In other news, the voice acting contest that Maverick and I are helping to judge has extended its entry date to the 15'th and there are now CASH (store credit, so its close enough) prizes! Visit the forum thread for full details but here's a quick rundown of what you can win...

1st place = 50$ in store credit + A voice acting place in a Sketched episode.

2nd Place = 30$ in store credit + A voice acting place in the upcoming game Slappy The Walrus.

3rd Place =20$ in store credit + A Great big pat on the back.

So all you aspiring voice actors out there be sure to enter. That's all from me for now, hope you enjoy the new short.

Till next time, keep on rockin New Grounds.

-Jeff


Posted by sirjeffofshort - February 23rd, 2009


Has anyone out there ever dealt with the Screen Actors Guild as a producer? It's a pain in the ass.

We are trying to hire a noted actor for one of our projects and he is SAG, so therefore we must get the project SAG approved, so we had to delay the project a month so that we could fill out the paperwork and get SAG to say "whelp, I guess you can hire this guy." Grrrr, arg.

Now the only thing standing in the way is getting the project insured for workmans comp. because California won't let anyone work, even on an independent funded project without it. So in the end we are going to end up spending way more than we wanted to on a pilot that isn't guaranteeing any revenue... sssssssuck.

And of course our project is on the low end of the radar so I can only imagine what some of the bigger indi productions or even the studio productions have to go through... It's no wonder the industry is packing it in out here.

Sorry about the complaints, but I gotta vent somewhere.

In other news, the new Sketched is well under way and should be out in a few weeks. Also, be sure to check out the voice acting contest in the forums if you would like to win a chance at acting in an upcoming Sketched movie.

Till next time, i leave you with another old live action Sketch we did starring Tim Friel, founder and song writer of "The Bloodening."

-Jeff

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