What Wizard Voice!

We are talking about the Wizard of Cerebus issue #1, who uncharacteristically (like so much in Cerebus issue #1) was given no personality -in most issues of Cerebus that were to follow: it's the side characters who are the most fun while Cerebus basically reacts..usually with a disapproving grunt or arched eyebrow...I've always thought of the dynamic akin to Bob Newhart show, though Newhart would react with a stammer:)

So to make Cerebus issue #1 more in keeping with the Cerebus style that would later develop we've here fleshed the Wizard out a bit and he's now a central character telling the tale of his own demise..sorta kinda like the movie "Sunset Boulevard":)

Doing the voice of the Wizard is the versatile talent of Stephen Mendel, who has appeared in numerous films and TV series.

Seeing how we can't just upload audio files I found some files that were handy (didn't want to spend too much time on this montage:)) and included them (featuring rough modelling,rigging and animation by Lorenzo Davis, Ajiesh Thuvanoor etc) though wouldn't go so far as to call this an animatic.

What Talk !? part2

Unfortunately blogger doesn't let you just upload audio links, but anyway above are some of the Cerebus voices in no particular order -comments are much encouraged!:)

What Talk!?

We welcome the terrific animator Jason Minos onboard -who along with Multi Emmy winning animation director Mike Milo are working on our first "talkie" scene! No, we haven't cast Cerebus yet -so they are animating just Necross (the sensational voice of Michael Anthony Petranech) for now. Necross modelled and rigged by Erik Frederik. Below is my attempt at doing a little "inspirational bit":)
Before I pull the trigger on who is the voice of Cerebus I'll upload voice samples without names this week.



Exterior Environment (still inprogress) by multi award winner Kerem Gogus. Interior Environement(still inprogress) by the incredibly talented Ludovic Leleu. Cerebus modelled by Brian Buchmann and Christophe Brebion. Rigged by Daniel Edwards

What A Society!

The above environemnt model is one I just stumbled across: I see it's by Chris Holden and this is his progress from Nov 2009, I think -I've, of course, emailed him:) Our film is pre High Society -but it would be great to have Cerebus walking up the stairs as a preview of the sequel at the end.
We are now finally animating our first "talkie" scene: it's a Necross scene -snippit of my excellent board below:)


The poor animator who has to work from this is none other Mike Milo, multi Emmy winning animation director. He's free to improve upon the board:)

What Farmland!

From Cerebus issue #13 where Cerebus is captured by some rural farmers and taken for judgement by their priest (accused of among other things of "not looking like one of us").

This environment is lovingly created by the genius and multi award winning heart and mind of Kerem Gogus!

Also, big thanks to Carma for starting and maintaining a Facebook "Cerebus Fim" page: 260 fans in 24 hours and counting. Wow. And it's linked to twitter, too. Gotta admit I'm not totally up on twitter, but I'll get there:)

What Many Voices Of Cerebus!

It's ongoing: the search for Cerebus' voice...I wanted to edit and put together all the various versions we've got and list them here (though I would keep the names anonymous)...but don't have the time right now. Frankly, we might already have the voice and it's just a matter of pulling the trigger. We'll see. We've got white, we've got black -we've even got a hermaphrodite (which for those who don't know: Cerebus is) -how cool would that be! We will see. We will see. Very exciting.


Edited together a little promo for for an upcoming interview segment conducted by Matthew Ingraham and Dave Sim with Gene Colan, Tom Palmer and Marv Wolfman on ""Tomb Of Dracula -a photorealism masterpiece" to air on www.cerebus.tv
This was one of my favorite comics as a kid so it's a real treat -and I included the above image as that specific Dracula story is very much like the Cerebus story...Dracula will have the power of "Cosmic Eternal" if he has three items "the lions head, the goat's body and the serpents tail", much like Cerebus will be "brute force triumphant" if he has "the helmet, medallions and sword"...of course, Cerebus is helmetless pretty early on and so his destiny becomes fractured...luckily for everyone, I'd say. lol.
Also, a new animated "buggid o' scodge" Cerebus 3D promo will air this Friday 10PM Eastern www.Cerebus. tv

What's Rigged?

The rigger doesn't really get too much glory -but rigging is very difficult: the rigger basically gives the 3D model all it's functions...Can't really showcase it, but above is an attempt:) The Necross facial rigg is now done: the 3D model can now arch eyebrows, open and close it's mouth etc Very detailed and beautifully done so it's easy to use -give it up for Erik Frederick.