Richard LeParmentier, who played Admiral Motti in Star Wars A New Hope, has written a screenplay about what happens to Admiral Motti after the Death Star Exploded.  This is a bit from his website.

“Some of the voice tracks and some of the sound effects have now been recorded.  Ken Colley has reprised his role as Captain Piett.  I voiced Motti and Jerome Blake, who does the best Vader impersonation, has recorded Vader.  Garrick Hagon and Jeremy Bulloch are lined up to do Troopers 3 and 4.  We plan to add more actors from the films.

If anyone can help with animation contacts or anything else please get in touch with me via the site.”

You’ll notice that he has lined up actors from the original movie and has asked for some help in the animation dept.  I think that I might be able to help.  Here’s a mock up that I did last night.

I’m working on a couple of different projects right now and have been making some backgrounds.  It’s pretty tough work!  I start out with a rough sketch for the animatic.  Then I clean it up in flash and add a depth of field and lighting effect in photoshop.

Just a little post to let you all know about the crazies of the day!  I had a great meeting today to go over some concepts for a new Web Show I’ll be working on as well as a toy line.  I’m not going to give away anything just yet, but I’ll be posting more as things really get going.  The whole reason why this site is Studios B3 is because I couldn’t ever seem to get hired by a big animation studio.  So I figured that the internet would allow me to make my own studio and distribute channel.  Now, I’ve found an independent toy maker to team up with to write some stories and make some toys and have some adventures!  This ought to be good!

There are so many projects that get started but then never get completed.  My friend Eldon and I were talking about Dr. Horrible’s sing-a-long blog and he mentioned what a big Buffy fan that he was.   This is a clip of what the Animated Buffy could have been.

When I first heard the Band the Gorillaz I thought it was pretty cool.  Then I saw the videos and learned that the “Band” was really an artistic collaboration between Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett.  Sorry kids, the Gorillaz are not a real band in the Traditional sense, I guess they’re more like the Monkees.  Hmmm, let me explain that a bit.  I like the Monkees and I like the Gorillaz (WOW!  I have never made that name association before!!) but both “band” were fabricated.  The Monkees were were initially the public face of a music production system.  They later earned the chance to make their own music, but at the start the were just the vocals and a image.  So the Gorillaz are a virtual band with animated characters similar to Alvin and the Chipmonks or the Archies.

Any way, I have always liked Jamie Hewlett’s style and the way that the traditionally animated characters are integrated into a 3D world.  Here’s a video done for the BBC olympic coverage.

This is the print that I have done for the Star Wars Celebration Japan.  The convention is on July 19th-21st in Chiba Japan.

This print is limited to 250 and can only be purchased in Japan.  I sketched out the characters (Greedo, Wuher, and some creatures) and then redrew them and colored them in Flash.  I wanted to have an original piece for the art show so I made a shadow box.

Then, I figured that since I already had a the file in Flash, I would make an animation out of it.  I started working on the animation on Wednesday.

Sorry about the mess. from Spencer Brinkerhoff III on Vimeo.

First, Google is working with Seth MacFarlane the creator of the TV show the Family Guy will create an animated Web-based series. There will be 50 Webisodes, each two minutes in length.  Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, will be distributed on Google-owned YouTube and be syndicated and distributed across the search giant’s content network to AdSense publisher sites.  More info here.

Second,  The Google Media Server is a gadget that allows users to send videos, music and photos from the Web to other media devices, such as television.   According to a Google blog post the beta version is available as a free download for users who have a PC that runs Google Desktop and a UPnP-enabled device, such as a PlayStation 3. The gadget provides access to Picasa Web Albums and favorite YouTube videos.

The Contest has begun, well sort-of.  I think.  I don’t completely understand the website yet.  They will award trophies in the categories of Action, Short Subject, Animation, Comedy, Fan Fiction, and the George Lucas Select Award.  So today, USERS can vote for the Final category of Audience Choice.  Voting ends at 11:59 pm PST on July 10th.

It would appear that Atom’s panel of judges makes a decision on the winners and then from July 1st-10th users can decide the audience choice award.  Atom sent me an email saying that they had seen my Star Wars cartoon and encouraged me to submit to the contest.  I went ahead and submitted the old one that they had seen, and then got right to work on a new one.  I really like the new one better, but it was rejected for fear of copyright infringement.

So you can watch the cartoon and see the other entries here.

Atom.com: Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | Comedy Central

**UPDATE!** This from The Force.net, “There seems to be some confusion on how to vote. I know that I was confused. Apparently Firefox 3 users will not see the “Thumbs Up icon” and may be hitting thumbs down. STOP! Don’t do that. Open the URL in Internet Explorer or Firefox 2 and you should see both a thumbs up and thumbs down icon. Register or log in and vote. Once your vote is registered it does not appear that you can vote more than once. ”

So I currently have 26 views and 100% THUMBS DOWN rating!  YESS!!!

**UPDATE!** Vote once a day every day here.
http://www.atom.com/spotlights/starwars/challenge/

Here’s a little clip all about the wonderful world of Robots in the new movie Wall-e.

Here are some great promotional posters for the movie.  When Pixar first hit the scene I was unimpressed by the fact that yet ANOTHER company was going to take the animation short-cut and make a 3D animated movie.  Then I saw what they were doing.  These guys are masters of the crafts.  They draw, they sculpt, they illustrate and animate.  I’m always super impressed to see the art that goes into the making of these wonderful stories.

I sent off an email to Dustin Roberts of theForce.net to tell him about my Clone High School Musical cartoon.  He put up a link to it on the site and then wrote the following;

“Here’s a funny video clip from Spencer B.

The animation is pretty good though, check it out for yourself, just click the video clip below to watch!”

Thanks for the post Dustin, and um I only saw the movie because my little girls wanted to, yeah, that’s right!