The FilmCow Blog http://www.filmcow.com/blog Please relax while we reupholster your sofa. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Charlie the Unicorn “Hot Topic” video… http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/11/20/charlie-the-unicorn-hot-topic-video/ http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/11/20/charlie-the-unicorn-hot-topic-video/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000 Jason Steele http://www.filmcow.com/blog/?p=570 This is the short Charlie cartoon I did for Hot Topic around the time Charlie 3 came out.  Hot Topic took the video off their site a while ago, so I’ve decided to put it up on FilmCow.

QuickTime:
http://www.filmcow.com/charliehottopic.html

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgXy0fquj2g

ENJOY.

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Also, it was brought to my attention that the Charlie the Unicorn “Hot Topic” video was taken down from the Hot Topic website a while back, and thus is no longer available anywhere on the web.  So I’ve decided to put it up on YouTube and FilmCow, which will happen in the next couple of weeks (after I tweak it a little.)

In other news, my friend Robert Benfer is now offering his feature length claymation “Klay World: Off the Table” as a download for only 5 bucks:

http://badideapictures.com/index.php?page=products/index#kwott

For those of you who haven’t seen it, it’s hilarious.

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QuickTime:
http://www.filmcow.com/theinterview.html

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRX0AQKFtwU

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I’ve taken the MySpace link off the front page of FilmCow. I’ll keep the account up and I’ll keep updating the music there for people who want to add FilmCow songs to their profile, but it just doesn’t look like a lot of people are interested in MySpace anymore.

If anyone has any suggestions as to something they’d like to see on FilmCow let me know. A long time ago I was getting a lot of requests to start a forum on FilmCow, but I delayed setting one up because I was sure that nobody would want to post there. And now the forum has over a million and a half posts. So I’m certainly willing to listen to suggestions considering how epically wrong I’ve been about this stuff in the past.

As for movie updates, I actually have a good number of videos I’m planning on releasing soon that have been mostly finished for a while now. This includes “The Interview,” “A Serious Business Meeting,” “Llamas with Hats 2″ and “Bino the Elephant.” The first two (Interview and Business Meeting) should be out in a week or two. I’m not going to give a timeframe on the new Llamas video or Bino because something could always come up to delay those.

And yes, I am still working on the Spatula Madness feature, and no, I don’t have any updates on that right now.

Well, I’m off to the store. To buy stuff. Like batteries.

]]> http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/10/07/updates/feed/ 39 FilmCow on the web… http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/10/05/filmcow-on-the-web/ http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/10/05/filmcow-on-the-web/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:42:49 +0000 Jason Steele http://www.filmcow.com/blog/?p=553 Well, I’ve decided it’s probably a good idea to give FilmCow a presence on all those “social networking” sites you kids are spending so much time destroying your brain on.

FilmCow is now on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter:

http://www.myspace.com/filmcow
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FilmCow/148424013951
http://twitter.com/filmcow

If you use those sites please add me so that I do not look friend-less and sad. Also, please tell me what I should add to my MySpace and Facebook pages to make them less lame.

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QuickTime:
http://www.filmcow.com/fcmc.html

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIN7dGa_Syo

Also, I’ve added the option to pay via PayPal to the order page:

http://www.filmcow.com/dvd.html

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http://www.filmcow.com/dvd.html

fcmc

]]> http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/16/the-filmcow-master-collection-200-years-of-excellence/feed/ 32 FilmCow.com update! http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/15/filmcow-com-update/ http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/15/filmcow-com-update/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:42:52 +0000 Jason Steele http://www.filmcow.com/blog/?p=539 Some minor site updates have gone live.  You may need to refresh and / or empty your browser’s cache to see them.

First is the visual changes.  The main FilmCow banner has changed, and the “Newest Release” part of the main page has been updated so that it’ll now display characters from whatever our newest video is.  There are some other minor visual changes as well.

The Video Podcast has been updated, all of the videos there are now higher-res to look better on iPhones and iPod Touches.  They’re also now hosted with a podcast hosting service so that new releases will stop slowing down the main site (the Video Podcast took up most of the bandwidth here.)

Also, I’ve gotten rid of the Flash Video option in the Movies section.  YouTube is already Flash Video, and the quality has increased dramatically during the last year so it seems kind of redundant to have both (getting rid of it also dramatically decreases my exporting time.)  In its place is now a direct link to the iPod Video version of the movie.

So, there you go!

]]> http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/15/filmcow-com-update/feed/ 10 The FilmCow Video Podcast has been updated. http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/15/the-filmcow-video-podcast-has-been-updated/ http://www.filmcow.com/blog/2009/09/15/the-filmcow-video-podcast-has-been-updated/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:59:05 +0000 Jason Steele http://www.filmcow.com/blog/?p=535 It’ll probably take a while to update in the iTunes store, but if you refresh your subscription you should notice it going all haywire, probably re-listing the videos you’ve already downloaded.  These are new versions of those files at a higher resolution.  If you’re playing them on your iPod you probably won’t notice any difference, but if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch it’s a lot clearer.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this new feed, or with any of the videos.

Also, the DVD isn’t going to be released tonight, sorry.  UPS says the package containing my new test copy has been delayed, and delivery has been rescheduled until tomorrow.  So, hopefully we’ll be able to release tomorrow!

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FilmCow.com will also get a small visual update when the DVD is released.  Nothing major, I just thought it was time for a little change.

Also, I’m in the process of changing the FilmCow Video Podcast.  That’s the iTunes RSS thing in the “Downloads” section that lets you subscribe to and download iPod versions of the FilmCow movies.  The videos are getting a resolution bump so that they look better on iPhones and iPod Touches, and the hosting is moving to a professional podcast hosting service.  The video podcast has been killing my site’s bandwidth this year, so moving it to its own service should free my server up for other things.

If you’re subscribed to the video podcast, you might notice some weirdness happening in the next week, and iTunes might ask you to re-download a bunch of videos.  Sorry about that if it happens, it’s hard to transition these things smoothly.

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