THE DEFENDERS OF STAN 19...and then some

Okey dokey. So here's the thing.

we KNOW we actually turned in the last episode of "The Defenders Of Stan" a few weeks ago to channel101:NY (where, i might add, we got second place--losing only to OUR OWN SHOW). But we wanted to space apart the uploads, as the next screening of channel101:NY won't be until early next year (boo! hiss! boo!)

so without further ado, the comic book cover from "The Defenders Of Stan 19: The Curse of Dr. Unstoppable!"


It's been uploaded to http://www.defendersofstan.com/ and THE BiG HONKIN' youtube & channel101:NY


But wait...what's this? I've clearly already uploaded the comic book cover for this month's episode. So what's that comic book cover doing down there?

Well, friend, i'll tell you. That comic book cover is the cover to an actual comic book! That's right. And just in time for the holidays!

Sure, the 2 year anniversary was a few months ago...Sure, it took us a little while to make this available online. but good things come to those who wait (note...i should point out that everyone who attended the last live screening channel101:NY screening got a FREE copy...but it's cool. you were busy).

"The Defenders Of Stan - Bring Your Brother To Work Day" on sale now!

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THE DEFENDERS OF STAN 18

why, fancy seeing you here!

here's the comic book cover for "The Defenders Of Stan" episode 18: "Two Men and a Super-Baby???"



this is a note to myself: Hunter...if you ever THINK about having kids, look at the above cover. ~hunter


The episode is online now at
ny.channel101.com
www.thedefendersofstan.com
youtube.com/thebighonkin

we have a few production stills, and a LOT of cool prop stuff coming soon!

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THE DEFENDERS OF STAN 17-Oh, (Big) Brother!

hey everybody!

The Defenders Of Stan episode 17-Oh, (Big) Brother! screened at channel101 NY last night, and took second place!

thanks to everyone who came out and voted.

this is the comic book cover for this episode:


also, the episode has been uploaded to:
-The Defenders Of Stan official website
-THE BiG HONKIN' youtube
and
-channel101NY

a few production stills to come, as well as some MORE stuff from episode 16!

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THE DEFENDERS OF STAN 16

hey hey hey everybody.

well. it's that time again, so prepare to be bombarded with behind the scenes photos, quirky and pointless references to how things were done, and tons of other stuff no one cares about!

SO. first off. "The Defenders Of Stan" episode 16-Royally Flushed screened at channel101NY on monday and took first place. the episode can be seen there (channel101NY), at THE BiG HONKIN' youtube, and at the official website in high quality.

we'll get with the production stills later. but first, here's the cover:



boomtown.

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"you'd do the same for me..."

The Defenders Of Stan, episode 15 screened at channel101 NY last night. it's been uploaded to the official The Defenders Of Stan website.

here's the special double issue's cover;


also, we added The Defenders Of Stan theme ringtone, from episode 6 (where Super Stan is getting chewed out by his boss) to the "downloads" sections of thedefendersofstan.com so all you crazy kids with your fancy mp3 playin' phones should download it and annoy your friends whenever you get a call.

seriously, they'll want to strike you with something.

youtube and production stills coming soon!

"Staaaaaan! That's like a week!"

The Defenders Of Stan, episode 14 "Freakin' Friday," premiered at channel101:NY last night and took 3rd place.

here's the comic book cover:


also, we've uploaded a high(er) res version to the official site: www.thedefendersofstan.com, along with a super special exclusive alternative cut, that's got TWO minutes of additional footage, deleted scenes, and a slightly different ending! go check it out!

production stills and more fun stuff coming soon!

"farting contest!"

SO, "The Defenders of Stan" episode 13: "Mindgame" screened at channel101 last night and took 1st place!

*crowd cheers*

thank you, thank you!

anywhoot. here is the cover image, and we have uploaded the episode to our website: www.thedefendersofstan.com




and since internet video and even the above picture can't show the minute details of faking 3 color printing, here's a detail:


production stills, props, and a deleted scene from ep 12 coming soon!

To The Limit.

Hello hello everyone.

We wanted to thank everyone who voted for "The Defenders Of Stan" ep 12 last night at channel102.net, where we took second place.

The video has been added to www.thedefendersofstan.com, and will be uploaded to you tube and channel102 soon.

expect production still and lots of prop photos soon, but for now here's the comic cover.



booyah

happy holidays, douchebags!

we, here at THE BiG HONKIN', love the holidays. because we're greedy.

but this year, we thought "let's not be greedy. let's give."

we all laughed a lot at the thought of that, and i think milk even came out of meredith's nose, but then it hit us: we can be greedy BY giving. you see, we make something for you, and you watch it and show it to a family member or friend who's never seen it before and you all "oooh" and "ahhh" and laugh. so we get back what we gave three-fold...suckers.

so, in the spirit of giving, we've made a super-exclusive holiday episode of The Defenders Of Stan, available only at our website. that's right, we aren't even competing with this in channel102! this is to you, from us.

you're welcome.


"The Defenders Of Stan: The Gift of the Magi(c cards)" can only be seen at the official website, www.thedefendersofstan.com.

i'll have some production stills and maybe even a before and after effects shot soon.

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.

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

backlog pt1

THE DEFENDERS OF STAN episode 10 came and went, and then we got swamped. but we took another first place for it, and for that we thank you.

some fun facts:
1. the whole thing was shot and posted in 12 days, thats TWO days less than episode 9.
2. the majority of us here at THE BiG HONKIN' camp were really sick.
3. last count, there were about 5 shots that didnt have some sort of crazy post-production in them.


So this is the cover for the episode, posted over a month late. it's mean to echo the previous one, as 9 and 10 were two parts of the same show. these are all pretty much hand-drawn, and since i'm really slow, take about a day each to do.


here are some production stills from the episode:


"Stan Kong" all pretty-like. truth be told, i think this was actually from episode 9, but until a friend forwards some pics he snapped, we'll all just have to pretend this is REALLY interesting.

austin was pretty miserable walking around as Kong. he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, wore fake teeth, had about 20 minutes of makeup to put on, and walking and hunching like an ape gave him pretty bad back pains. and we had two identical shirts for Stan and his ape-counterpart. One was austin's size, and the other was too small, although i'm not sure it reads on camera. it's all in the details, people. the details that no one but us pays attention to.

add all that to the fact that we were acting with vague ideas about where things be in the final product (60% of this thing was shot green-screen), and you have quite a full 12 days.


So the funny thing about this is that THIS was our whole audience. These six kind people drove an hour out of their way to sit around for hours in a mall comedy-club to make up an entire audience, even though about half of them hadn't even seen the show before.


Here you can see a horde of capes and wigs off in the distance that the actors would switch in and out of. we'd shoot each vertical column of people and then combine them in post. it's like cloning, only without the stem cells and crying.

NEXT, i will have some of our crappy storyboards to check out.

we didn't want to ruin the suprise...

we didn't post the cover to this episode of "The Defenders Of Stan" before the screening this month, even though we usually do because we just didn't wanna ruin the ending for those of you that like that sort of thing.

but, it's been almost a week. why not?


also, because we're lazy--it's part of THE BiG HONKIN' credo--we are wishing "The Defenders Of Stan" a belated happy birthday. "...Stan" premiered August 28th, 2006 at Anthology Film Archives in channel102, taking first place of twelve.

we've been doing this show for over a freakin' year! we can't believe we have gotten the opportunity to go for as long as we have. so thank you! and happy birthday, Stan...ya douchebag.


in other news, we've shot and edited one of two web-pilots for some new friends of ours, and we just finished writing what seems like our 3rd draft for the second. we're excited and really hope the opportunity comes to show everyone our work. we hope to have more info to share soon.

we're really proud of these two. it's good to know we can still be funny not dressed in primary colors.

LASTLY, the aforementioned documentary is about to go into post-production. we're all anxiously awaiting the arrival of new equipment to get the (foot)ball rolling. more on that soon too.

on top of that, we have a few other things in the works...but we can't give out ALL of our secrets just yet.

images are fun

hey everyone, we wanted to once again thank everyone for voting for us. it feels good knowing that 96 out of 101 people voted for our show at the screening. and then we wonder who those other five people are and what the fuck their problem is.

asses.

anyways, here are some production stills from this past episode. YAY.


everyone in the Quizzlers Lair.


Stan & Ultra press photo.


in the studio


the ULTRAPHONE™


another from the Quizzlers Lair.


smoke break.


the ULTRA-POLES™


the studio mess. sometimes it seems like we spend more time cleaning up the messes we make than actually shooting.


table full-o-props.


rear-projected wall climbing. by far one of the most ridiculous things to set up and shoot, considering it's only given about 2 seconds of screen time. note the high-tech rope holding device.


austin in the studio riding a bike that doesnt like to give rides. we had about a week and a half of preproduction on this episode, polishing the story, gathering props, finding actors, etc. we were having a hard time finding a bike, much less an OLD bike for the shoot. meredith found this at a yard-sale on the way from charlottesville to arlington on the day of the outside shoot.


press photo #2


THE BiG HONKIN' climbs a wall.


still from the animated intro. between writing, finding props, shooting, scoring the entire damned episode, our full-time jobs and everything else, this intro took me about two weeks in all of my free time to draw. drawings were hand-drawn, scanned, then colored, animated and effected in the computer. two words: never. again.


and the cover, for those who like that sort of thing;

this particular cover was modeled after the cover for BATMAN #9. if anyone knows what i'm talking about, then i probably dont have to explain it anyway. because youre a nerd.



lastly, you can watch "THE DEFENDERS OF STAN episode 8: Bat-Phoning It In!" and all the other episodes over at channel102, and we also are proud to announce that www.defendersofstan.com is live. just not VERY live.

stan ep7 preview

and for those that want a sneak peak.



hurray

and while we are at it...

i totally forgot to put up the covers from last month's STAN.

because i am a tool.



and lazy.


a lazy tool.

so much to everyone's anticlimactic excitement; the covers.


"The Defenders Of Stan" Episode 7 is currently in production, and we're all very excited about it, despite being very tired from two 6-7 hour shoots.

Show Time

Tonight is the Channel102 screening. Since -- as usual -- we're just getting the new episode finished, we're rushing up to New York today.

For those who want a sneak peak... here is the new cover:


hurrah

cover art

one day, when i have free time and extra money, i will actually print these all out and hang them on my wall, as a remembrance of all of the hard work i put into them.

ahh dreams



oh. i also want a pony and a hang glider.


thats all i got, yo.

Another Early Night

It's 3:56 a.m.
Austin is editing the final Defenders of Stan scene, Hunter is hard at work making Captain Ultra's eyes shoot lasers and Meredith is blearily updating the blog before he goes home to sleep.

Ain't TV glamorous?