Happy Solstice, everyone!

And now... the production staff!

Believe it or not, this is not a one-person operation. Anymore. I have enough people involved in enough of my video-making process that I can call them my production team now, and we're all cool with that.

So here's a video introduction to them, as well as to my two main characters who I play on-camera. There's no rhyme or reason to the organization of this video, it's just clips of my main staff that I had and stuck them together with some still shots and commentary.

It's like... part weird documentary, part home movies montage, part music video... But hey, the real point is... this is a look into what it's like makin' movies with Ven, and a brief introduction to some of the people who help me do it. Not all of their work has been featured here yet... in fact, my resident composer, Thursday, was just recruited about 48 hours ago... and some of them ended up unfortunately being sort of UNDER-represented... particularly Mouse, who has been my camera assistant, editor, inspiration, and overall support since the beginning... but whether you've seen their work or not, they've all contributed in some major way and will continue to do s in the future.

Yes, even the 3-year-old.

There are a few other people who aren't part of my production team but are still worthy of mention. I'm going to try to do a second video to give them some recognition, too. I have no idea how soon this will end up happening, but it's on my list of things to try.

"The Impossible Dream"

I have far too much fun doing these.



Here we revisit the Somaturge in singing form. Fun fact: I actually recorded myself in full costume singing this song all the way through THREE TIMES thinking I would stick clips in between the art... but I have so damn much art saved, it was totally unnecessary and would have sort of defeated the point of the video.

I think I've decided to call these fan art things "DeviantArtists' Alley." Because I am completely shameless in my willingness to rip off more popular video makers' series titles. *cough* *http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/aalley*

Anyway, this is me singing as the Somaturge. Because I love doing his voice. This was more challenging than I'd thought it would be -- if for no other reason than because I am singing at the lowest end of my range that I can sing in and still be doing this voice. In fact it took me several takes to get it right because it's really difficult to make this character sound loud, much less belt a note and hold it. I think I managed, though. :3

New Microphone Get! ~ Fan Art Fan Video here!

audio-technica AT2020 USB microphone.

And then I discovered Broadway Karaoke tracks.

And then history was made.

Yes, this is me singing. The only alteration done to this track was some kind of filter I apparently unintentionally had on while recording. It made my voice all echoy. It sounded good, so I kept it, and claim the bragging rights of having done this in one take.