25 November 2014 : Holy TromaRama Agogo!!! It's Troma Entertainment's founder and film director Lloyd Kaufman sprucking one of the Trasharama T-shirts featuring Sindee the undead cheerleader designed by ArkhªmHªus @ Monsterfest alongside Master of Trash Dick Dale. Following two extremely successful west coast appearances at Stan Lee’s Comikaze and the American Film Market, Lloyd Kaufman flew into Melbourne, Australia for his first Monsterfest film festival. On November 23-24, Kaufman hosted two exclusive Monsterfest events: an all day ‘Make Your Own Damn Movie’ Masterclass and a very Brady... I mean Troma double-bill - Tromeo & Juliet and the Toxic Avenger.
Troma Entertainment is a Behemoth within the B-movie world, creating and releasing tons of movies, including its most famous piece of celluloid, The Toxic Avenger. Troma has recently released 150 of its movies for free on YouTube, for example the classic Class of Nuke 'em high and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD they even uploaded some older films which they just distribute like Abbot and Costello: Jack and the Beanstalk, or Bela Lugosi in The Corpse Vanishes or The Invisible Ghost. You can watch more modern fare like Zombie Werewolves Attack! and Blood, Boobs & Beast (a documentary about Don Dohler, another B-movie creator). Mr Kaufman has shown himself to be a filmmaker who truly understands how the internet can help him, rather than be something to be feared, so it's great to see him fully embrace a platform like YouTube to distribute his flicks, and to not freak out about the fact that people can watch stuff for free.
13 November 2014 : Trasharama agogo's New film festival introductory animation (sans audio). With thanks to Aaron Wakem for steering me through Adobe After Effects. Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics, visual effects and compositing app developed by Adobe Systems used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. After Effects can also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder.
The new animated title sequence premiers at Monsterfest 2014.
November 2014 : Trasharama agogo, Australia's nastiest touring short film festival begins in Melbourne in conjunction with Monsterfest, "a deviant film festival dedicated to satiating all of your abhorrent cinematographic needs in the horror and cult genres."
October 2014 : The New Trasharama agogo facebook Banner featuring Sindee the undead cheerleader, the ZombEye, Ortiz the Woof-Man and the Sound guy from the black lagoon (we call him Mike).The banner art ties in with the soon to be released updated title sequence for the film festival.
October 2014 : New single colour Trasharama agogo T-shirt design featuring Sindee the undead cheerleader.
August 2014 : The 2014 Limited Edition full colour Trasharama Stubbie Cooler.
June 2014 : The Truly Terrifying Trasharama Touring T-shirt makes the leap from single colour art(see below) to full colour design.
From April 2014 onwards : The Stalkher feature film's early post-production logo designed for promotional labelling.
March/April 2014 : Working on Stalkher poster designs (film now completed with an August 2015 theatrical release slated).
Preprodution film title font for Stalkher (2014). Structurally the font was a lot more stable print wise than other design suggestions.
January 2014 : Trasharama agogo Short horror films from around this nation. More terrifying than the Australian liberal party, unlike those satanic, coprophagositic, child molesting, fascist xenophiles, Trasharama also accepts all sorts including all submissions from overseas: sci-fi/ faux grindhouse / perverted & bad taste dodgementaries/ crappy animated shorts and all manner of schlock .
Cinematic
Poster Art : Typically
posters include both textual and graphic elements,
although a poster can consist wholly of graphics
or of text. Posters are designed to be both
eye-catching and convey information. Posters may
be used for many purposes. They are a frequent
tool of advertisers (particularly of events,
musicians and films) the Content of this gallery
falls into the film category featuring theatre
release posters, pre
and post production concept posters for the German
(Aug 2012) release of
Bad Behaviour "Bösen Menschen passieren böse
Dinge", the Thai release of Bad
Behaviour (????????
?)and character
playbills.
Stalkher
(Queensland based feature film) Pre-production
Concept Posters as well as theatrical and home
entertainment (DVD cover) artwork are now
viewable.
Props
and Sculptures : The
difference between a set decoration and a prop is
use. If the item is not touched by a performer for
any reason it is simply a set decoration. If it is
touched by the actor in accordance to script
requirements or as deemed by the director, it is a
prop. Prop weapons (such
as handguns,
axes or even a fire
poker) read
well but lack the inherent danger of the 'real'
weapon and are almost always either non-operable
replicas, or have safety features to ensure they
are not dangerous. The increasing popularity of
movie memorabilia (a
broader term that now includes costumes) has added new meaning to the term
"prop," broadening its existence to include a
valuable after-life as a prized collector's item.
Typically not available until after a film's
premiere, movie props appearing on-screen are
christened "screen-used". Sculpture
involves 3-D artwork created by shaping or
combining materials such as stone,
metal, glass, or wood. Softer ("plastic")
materials can also be used, such as clay,
textiles, plastics, polymers and softer
metals.
Cartoon
Gallery : Title says it all
really. A cartoon is a form of
2D illustrated visual art. While the specific
definition has changed over time, modern usage
refers to a typically non-realistic or
semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for
satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic
style of such works. A
mobile Phone Logo, freehand promo
sketches, DIY Character designs, a drunken bear,
farm animals, fish, crustaceans, a trio of lab
rats, football club logos, and a slightly
xenoglosic pumpkin. Because of the stylistic
similarities between comic strips and early
animated movies, "cartoon" came to refer to
animation, and the word "cartoon" is currently
used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag
cartoons. While "animation" designates any style
of illustrated images seen in rapid succession
to give the impression of movement, the word
"cartoon" is most often used in reference to TV
programs and short films for children featuring
anthropomorphic animals, superheroes, the
adventures of child protagonists and related
genres..
Zombie-Town
: Many are
the darkling forgotten facets of this world and
boundless is our secret fascination with them...IT'S
Anfractuous Artwork commissioned for the
inconceivable Trasharama film
festival...Toxic
anthropomorphic sludge with audio
equipment,..Bathycolpian Babes from
beyond the grave!Werewolves!Reanimated Eyeballs! Blatant
merchandise! (not sold here) Trailers
for Sci-fi and Cthulhuin
feature films associated with the deviant
monstrosity of cinema we call Trash ... Scratch
the surface and maybe you'll find a few odd ball
illustrations done on my own time. Dig a little
Deeper and you'll find some of the true classics
from the Trash film circuit. Turn Not a blind
third eye to these twilight anomalies, but
rather draw back this digital canvas portal and
behold the wonderment ...
Fantasy
Gallery : Scythian Warriors
(pencil), Fallen Angels (pencil), Demons
(acrylic), an ancient Viking woodcut, a Dragon
pendant (Sterling Silver), the Kurgan (pencil),
the Ring Shaper and a selection of axes, swords
and shields.
Various illustration styles and photographic
manipulations of females mostly faeries, elves,
pixies... call 'em what you want, there is some
PG-13 nudity. There's a fine pencil sketch of Queen Maeb I'm proud of,
an interesting head and shoulders acrylic. Worth
a look if your a fan of fantasy or Celtic,
Scythian and Nordic mythology.
The Sketchpads :
Works in Progress .
The
Sketchpads :Following
the same format as the galleries,
these scribbles are works in progress
(remedial translation:I haven't
finished them yet), but don't
let that put you off, observing how
the designs develop has at least as
much value as say, watching paint dry
or trying to hit the arse end of a cow
with a banjo.
