Ohohoho... sweet. Just friggin' awesome. Finally, were gonna get something completely original here. Supporting you every step of the way.
Did some Blockhead. Made a lil' Mastermind. Co-created Madness: Project Nexus. I love you so much!
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I think the title "Racist Vampires" is brilliant, but it's one of those things that I worry will be funnier than the content itself. Like it's a great idea for a skit, but maybe not for a series. Are they going to only attack asians or something? Hate crimes? WHAT WILL YOU DO MISTER SWAIN I'M LOSING SLEEP HERE
I had the exact same concern, which is why I wanted to test the waters with a short segment first. Yeah, a skit, if you will. Depending on the reaction to that, I might take the characters further. I WANT to take the characters further, but I won't do it against the will of the audience :D
I don't know if this is going to be too disgusting for you, but I reckon you could have a vampire working at a tampon factory. And they have these women come in to do a test on absorption rate or something, but then all the test tampons disappear and nobody has any idea where they've gone. Except for one man.
Or they could confront the vampire about it and he could flat out deny everything, then it cuts to a shot of him driving off into the sunset with a dump truck full of used tampons, cackling all the way.
I don't know how that's racist though. Maybe black blood tastes funkier? It's got mo' soul.
It's so off limits and yet so easy to link vampires to menstrual cycles, that I may just avoid it and save my soul while I still can. :(
To be honest I wrote that comment, then read it back to myself and realised what a shitty idea it was. I don't know why I thought it'd be a good premise for a flash if i myself wouldn't want to make it.
And that's why drugs are bad.
Don't we all make weird things.
By the way, great work.
I totally get it, guys!
you won't go against the will of the audience eh? if only illwillpress shared those sentiments. >:(
What's the difference between a dead baby and a watermelon?
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One's fun to smash, and the other's a watermelon!!!
Oh Mike, where would you be without me?
P.S. Can't wait to see how this turns out.
A friend lectured me yesterday about why dead baby jokes aren't funny, but I DIDN'T LISTEN. Even though that's not what this is, they're still awesome :(
looking forward to it but what do you mean by figure it out for yourself strips is there like a message behind it to say why it makes them racist or something lol
.........I don't get it........but,LOOKS GREAT!
Wow dude your a realy good artist. If i could get drawing lessons i would ask you.
What would happen to the storyline if there was a blockhead type vampire?
Whay has there never been an Xmas day blockhead toon ?
I'm always so exhausted after working on Halloween. Last year I had just gotten done with three months of work on Blockhead: The Game, and was in no mood to do it again :/
Looks aweomse Swain. One question: Did you really have to kill the baby?
I didn't kill anyone :(
You got tired of making Blockheads and moving on to RV??
I always get tired of Blockhead after I've completed one. The trick is to try to do more in the time between episodes. I'd still like to release three episodes a year if at all possible, in addition to a few Blockhead sub-features.
omg guy above me! can you not read?! blockhead is a cartoon swain makes for practice! he's aloud to make other things aswell you know!
Hey, how come vampires always have fangs nowadays? Bats really ruined the vampire mythos. Vampires used to just drink blood after death. Then they named vampire bats the name they have because they drank blood. Now, people associate vampire bat fangs (and bats in general) with vampires. You could have changed the world, Swain! You could have fixed this!
Also, please don't bleep out words on this series. If you're going to be offensive, don't hit them with feathered punches. "I dislike your race, you butt-head!" The bleeps on Mastermind seemed silly when you consider the walking pair of tits left uncovered.
I left the PG-13 content alone and tried to keep the more offensive stuff off-limits. I didn't figure profanity was an all or nothing deal. And if they can show a giant clitoris in South Park, then disembodied boobs, which aren't sexual organs mind you, should pass the bar. That's my assumption anyway.
As for RV, it's not gonna be nearly as vocally offensive as Mastermind was intended to be. I might bleep out a bit of this or that if I really feel some profanity would help push the plot along (haha), but I'm otherwise avoiding it. It won't be squeaky clean like Blockhead, mind you, but it'll be in the neighborhood of inoffensive.
Besides, doncha agree that censored profanity adds to the "uh oh, he's making a no-no! teehee" giggle factor? Mmmm, giggles.
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As for vampires, there is a mythos for almost every culture. The oldest goes back to the Sumerians, who viewed vampires as the incarnate spirits of the wrongly slain. Freaking Blade 3 got that right, of all possible sources.
"Besides, doncha agree that censored profanity adds to the "uh oh, he's making a no-no! teehee" giggle factor? Mmmm, giggles."
To an extent I do, but I am also a proponent of using the words that sound the best, be they bad or not, and not covering them up unless required to. Like, bleeped out words catch us as coming from the TV era where things have to fit under a censor-system. The internet, on the other hand, gives the freedom to do what you will. If you think about it, it's like going from grade-school to middle school and still chuckling at the ambiguity of kids saying "doing it." I'm not saying I have a problem with people censoring themselves or their stuff when you just want to get the point across without it being unnecessarily dirty or whatever. I am just suggesting that with the freedom the internet gives people, we as the people making stuff for everyone can let them know it's okay.
BLAH BLAH BLAH, MY NAME IS JARED AND I EAT KITTENS!
Of the few shirts I sell from my Cafepress store, most of them are purchased by the mothers of the kids who watch my work. I'm kinda sensitive to what I show my audience because I've seen how involved parents can be with what their children watch, even when I'm pushing the boundaries farther (see bloody baby above, haha).
And I'll make you a deal - I'll stop censoring my profanity when the western world stops being so unnecessarily prude :D
Ye, i guess animating a ghostmass toon and a christmass toon within just a few months would take almost all your time, and when you have just finished a large piece of work, the first thing you wan't to do is relax and admire it few a while, without starting another piece ( well in my case it's usually large pieces of coursework, so i just wan't to hand it in, and don't wan't to look at it any longer, but still... :P)
I never really get to appreciate my own work. I'm either sick of looking at it right after I finish, or it's been so long since I completed it that I feel I've improved and looking at such low quality work makes me feel sick :\
Either way, I am sick 90% of the time.
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I don't know though it does look like Mastermind is gonna be on the top 50 for awhile it's been like 10 days since it's release and it's score is still rocking although
I've notice since the redesign all the scores have been higher the 4.24 that used to be number 1 is now not even in the top fifty it takes a good 4.25 now to get into the top fifty club and you and your number one guy will always be there