backlog pt4

we, here at THE BiG HONKIN', are not good people. we're incredibly lazy, short-staffed, and refuse to shave on a regular basis. it's because of these things, particularly the last one, that we are oft prevented from doing what we promised.

so, here we have some production stills from THE DEFENDERS OF STAN, episode 11.

starting with the cover.


a lot of times, it's very apparent what the cover should be: we tend to pick some sort of climactic moment or, more importantly, a moment that could make a cover without ruining the element of surprise in the 1.9 seconds it's featured on the screen. and we were really stuck as to what the hell to draw for this one. so we just took a bunch of photos and i started sketching a bunch of crap before i gave up and just basically did what everyone probably knew was coming: Stan and Captain Ultra turning against one another in a fit of good ol' fashioned sibling rivalry. slap on a "witty" title, and you're good to go.

*it should be noted that once the covers are drawn, we deliberate for MINUTES as to what the title should be before dropping them into the intro project and hitting render.



thanks to technology, these pictures were taken DURING an actual take with the help of a flash-free camera.


Once our souls had been wrestled out of the camera, the photographer was banished into the control room.


in actuality, this episode was basically 3 takes (the intro between Stan and Ultra, the game show introduction, and the actual game) each done live-to-tape. then a few inserts were added ("Switch!", Team Galactus), and voila! An episode is shot in under five hours. it actually took longer to draw the comic book cover then it did to shoot the whole episode, which is incredibly new and scary for us.


what production photo blog update is complete without meredith behind a camera?

"woah. it's like you see it, and then you see it again...but smaller...and blown out."


the obvious tag line here is: "three INCREDIBLY attractive guys."

Stan looking suspicious.


Captain Ultra looking ugly/confused.

The Defenders of Stan, episode 11 took first place at the channel102 screening, narrowly missing the highest voter percentage. sometime soon, we'll have updates about our other goings-on, and we are thinking about talking about uploading the episodes to our youtube one day maybe.

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channel102
the defenders of stan
the defenders of stan episode 11
the defenders of stan on myspace
the big honkin on myspace