The Flying Spaghetti Monster in “A Christmas Carol”? Hell yes! Read on!
As we continue our pre-production efforts on Ruffus The Dog’s A Christmas Carol you can watch streaming episodes of Ruffus The Dog – along with numerous shameless plugs asking for funding contributions – on the Ruffus UStream.TV Channel.
Or you can watch it right here:
Why am I doing this?
It’s coming down to the wire for raising funds to make our version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and the shoot is just a little over a week away.
Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!
Relax. Breathe in – breathe out – repeat if necessary.
It’s all good.
I’ve already posted about our funding efforts – you can find some of them here and here and here.
We don’t have nearly as much money as we intended to have in order to pull this off – but that’s not going to stop us. The production is going ahead as planned. If you – or anyone you know – can help by contributing even a few dollars via IndieGoGo it will go a long way to helping make this exercise in creative insanity just a little less impossible than it already is.
I may make it sound like our efforts to release this production of “A Christmas Carol” online by December 21st are nothing more than a folly doomed to failure – but actually I’m delighted with what we’ve been able to achieve in such a short time with so few resources. This is going to be an amazing show. It would not have been possible without the dedication and determination of the talented team who have come together to help make this happen.
You can help too. Visit http://www.indiegogo.com/ruffus-the-dog and tell others to do the same. We’re counting on you to help get us across the finish line with enough in hand to make this journey work.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go finish my storyboards, render more CG virtual sets and make a Flying Spaghetti Monster – you know – for kids.
Here it is as a work in progress:
Enjoy the shows. Thanks for your support.
Cheers.
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Ruffus The Dog – “Around The World In 80 Days”
Thursday, August 5th, 2010The latest episode of Ruffus The Dog to be posted online is our own version of “Around The World In 80 Days”.
It was scripted by Bill Murtagh and contains some seriously silly shit. I recall when we made it we couldn’t stop giggling over the audaciousness of our trying to cram Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale into a mere 14 minutes of screen time.
Here’s the short promo video for the full show:
This episode also features what is perhaps my most favourite JP Houston song from the entire series: “Ol’ Blue Soul”.
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The process of posting the full episodes along with these little promo spots is becoming more of a manageable routine. It’s gratifying to see the viewer numbers slowly rise – as I have more info on our Blip.tv stats I’ll be sure to share it with you here.
We’re also rolling out the show in other venues – like our own YouTube channel, an iTunes podcast, along with the de rigeur Facebook fan page and Twitter account – on the understanding that wide exposure is the best possible promotion on the internet.
Over the coming weeks I’m preparing a series of interviews with some of the folks involved in the original production and will be sharing those here and on the Ruffus web site too. Eventually all those interviews will be cut together with other footage to form a Making Of documentary as part of the DVD extras.
Something else I’m going to try – like I don’t already have enough to do – is to shoot some new short spots with Ruffus and some of the other characters. Just little 1 to 2 minute bits based on nursery rhymes, jokes, poems and any emails or comments we’ve been receiving. Extra bits – you know – for the kids.
The writing of the storybooks continues as well as some other plans for the online existence of Ruffus. One step at a time. Tell yer friends.
Cheers.
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