"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 7

A big delay in the series has unfortunately caused the movie's biggest delay. The movie, which was to premiere on June 26, 2015 is now scheduled for release on September 26, 2016. That's all for now.

skull902's Current Voice-Over Roles

Hey there, if you are viewing this, then you're taking a look at my current resume. All past projects will be organized somewhere down the line but this post is specifically for projects I'm still involved in (or at least think I am, since many of these are projects that the directors haven't updated me on).

I currently have 30 voice-over roles, with 22 different characters.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Luigi, Shadow the Hedgehog, Metal Sonic, Yoshi, Bowser, Narrator - "Sonic & Mario" by SEA Productions.
Frog Prince, Big the Cat - SonicSong182 Productions.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna, Dr. Eggman - RabidSonicFan's "Simply Sonic".
Knuckles the Echidna, Robots - gamemaster92's "Sonic: The Beginning".
Cameo Guy - RabidSonicFan's "The Adventures of Bob".
Über Duck, Bastardly Bunny - "Über Duck" by SEA Productions.
Spider-Man - "Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice" by SEA Productions.
Sonic the Hedgehog, Metal Sonic, Dr. Eggman, Metal Robotnik, Old Man Owl, The President - Camobomo100's "Sonic OVA" fandub.
Spider-Man, Tommy Oliver, Trey of Triforia - "Super Wars" by SEA Productions.
Sgt. Keroro - "Keroro Abridged" by AbridgeShion.

Another Season 5 Update

Another little quickie for Season 5 of "Sonic & Mario". We're switching back to Sony Vegas Movie Studio to edit the show. A bit strange, going from Movie Maker to Vegas than to Blender and back to Vegas again. The episodes (and all subsequent spin-off episodes plus the movie) will still be edited on my brother's computer. The reason why we switched back was because the both of us already had a bit of knowledge of Vegas, and it would've taken a little more time to start learning Blender's video editing program.

That's about it for now, I'll see you all in the future.

"Sonic & Mario" Update

No, this one isn't about the movie. Just a little update on the series. Due to a little forgetfulness on my part, I accidentally screwed up something plot-wise in the script for Episode 37, the Season 5 premiere. This caused very minor re-writes to both this episode (pretty much just accommodating the accidental changes, nothing new added to the plot or subtracted) and Episode 39. That's all for right now, seeya guys later!

skull902 Reviews: The Neverending Story

Greetings, everyone! Yesterday, after eighteen years of Nothing, I finally got to see this flick for the first time. What do I think about it? How will I discuss my thoughts? When will I get to the damn review, already? Ladies and gentlemen, this is "The Neverending Story", what some say is one of the best children's films of all time.

So after a sweet-ass intro song, the story begins with our protagonist Bastian, who has just awoken after a dream. Bastian's mother unfortunately has passed, and he wishes to speak to his dad about the dream and his mom. His dad on the other hand I guess doesn't give a crap, drinking his raw eggs and telling his son basically "Fuck off about your mom, pay more attention in school." His dad and teachers are both upset with him, and I can't seem to think it's for any more than him grieving his dead mother, which only makes me feel really sorry for him. So after good ol' dad tells him to "Give up your dreams and face your real problems", y'know, sound advice for an eight year old, Bastian is sent off to school.

On his way, Bastian encounters his bullies who try to get his lunch money, and after a small chase, they push him in a dumpster. Y'know...Bastian's gotta be an incredibly depressed child and if they're trying to make the viewer feel incredible amounts of sympathy for him, it's working. Apparently though, Bastian got out of the dumpster too early and is chased again, Bastian hiding in a library. Creepy Librarian Man tells him to GTFO but Bastian stays, telling him his love for books. After being tempted at an "unsafe" book, Bastian takes it to school with him.

Bastian is late for school though and doesn't want to be caught I guess, so he goes to the most reasonable place possible...an old, dusty room with an old, dusty cot to rest on. He starts reading the book, titled "The Neverending Story".

The story-within-a-story begins with some fantasy people camping out. They're then nearly killed by probably one of the most famous things from this movie, the Rock Biter. Rock Biter tells the campers of a wave of "nothing" that took over his home, one of the campers (who I think has a pretty neat voice) recalling the same thing. After Rock Biter eats some "delicious gourmet rock" (hurting innocent animals in the process, shame on him), he and the fantasy peoplez try to seek help from the Empress of Fantasia in the Ivory Tower. When they get there they see many others have also looked for her help in this time of crisis, but she's just a little bit ill (y'know, the deathly kind) and can't speak to them at the moment. The people then learn the Empress has sent out for Atreyu, a mighty warrior...who turns out to be, like, twelve to stop the evil Nothing that has been devastating Fantasia. After some laughs at his expense, Atreyu accepts the mission and is told to not have any company along the way and also must give up his weapons. He does get one thing though, and that would be the AURYN (that's how it's typed up on Wikipedia, I personally think it's silly in all caps but whatever). So Atreyu and his trusty steed Artax (no company, huh?) set out FOR ADVENTAH! Shortly after though, The Nothing sends out a nasty-looking creature to find and kill Atreyu.

Atreyu and Artax have no luck looking throughout Fantasia, and set out to find the wisest being in the land. He just happens to live in the Swamps of Sadness, where if you get too sad, you fucking sink and die. Unfortunately the very same thing happens to Artax (which I thought was going to be a bit later in the film, to be honest), as Atreyu cannot save him from his despair. What a horse (who has all his needs met) feels sad about is a bit beyond me, but whatever. Bastian at this point takes a little bit of a break to cry it out.

When he gets back to the story, Atreyu, now on his own, finds Weird Mountain Turtle Guy, who is the one he's looking for. Too bad for him, as turtle dude here doesn't really give a crap about the fate of the world and also can't help him. Atreyu is directed to go to the Southern Oracle, which is only the incredibly short distance of 10,000 miles away. Bastian hears the school bell, but decides not to leave, a decision that must have his jackass father frantically searching for and worrying about him.

Atreyu tries to journey along but is tired out. Before he can be hunted by that monster from earlier (or possibly drowned, whichever comes first), he's saved. Atreyu wakes up 9,891 (an oddly specific number) miles away in the arms of Falkor, the mystical dragon...dog...thingamajig, and tries to sneak away before Falkor wakes up and tells him how far they've traveled. Atreyu is healed by some married gnomes, the husband of which telling him how exactly to get to the Southern Oracle. There's a gate that guards the oracle (in the form of awkward bare-breasted women sphinx, for some reason) and it blasts a guy who tries to make it through. The key to getting through the gate (get it? :D) is to be pure of heart and to show no doubt. Atreyu is confident at first, but when he begins to doubt himself, the gate charges up it's sooperty-dooperty laser attack, and Atreyu runs through just in time.

Atreyu, on his quest, runs into some sorta mirror-gate-thingy, and sees Bastian on the other side. Bastian, in the real world, is creeped out by this and throws the book across the room. He reconsiders though and continues reading. Atreyu goes through the mirror gate and reaches the Southern Oracle and oh my God. It's the naked freaking ladies again. Oh but they're BLUUUUUUE this time. Really though, for a kids' film it's incredibly awkward and by a production standpoint it's very, very lazy to use the same props/structures/whatever again. ...Anyway, Atreyu finds out through the Oracle that the way to stop the Nothing is to, get this, have a human child rename the Empress. See, her old name Bitchface both doesn't command a lot of respect and is just bad for PR. So that's why she's gotta get something else. Atreyu then hops aboard Airline Falkor and heads off to find the boundaries of Fantasia...

...Only to get whacked by the Nothing, falling into the Sea of Possibilities *que "Endless Possibilities" joke*. Atreyu has lost both Falkor and the AURYN, and while frantically calling out for Falkor, meets up with the Rock Biter from earlier. Rock Biter then tells Atreyu he wasn't able to help his two camper friends, them both getting sucked in by the Nothing. Rock Biter has become just like Artax and just sorta gives up on his life, waiting for the Nothing to get to him. Atreyu then goes in a cave and sees some neat little wall drawings, describing his adventure. The last painting though depicts the evil monster that's been hunting him, who just so happens to be waiting for him in the cave. Here's Gmork, who, besides having an incredibly silly name, is like an evil Falkor I guess. Gmork is looking to kill Atreyu and charges for him, but Atreyu, having grabbed a convenient butcher knife-looking rock stabs him in the chest. Falkor finds the AURYN and Atreyu, and just as the planet explodes or something, they get outta there.

While floating in space and staying alive somehow (using what I'm gonna call the "Jimmy Neutron Rule"), the two use the AURYN to find the Ivory Tower, which is still standing. Atreyu runs to the Empress, apparently cured I think maybe, and tells her he failed since he couldn't find a human child. The Empress however tells him that he has found one, who has been following him all throughout his journey. Atreyu asks where this child is, never once seeing him. Bastian then finds out it was him all along, and he's in quite a bit of disbelief. The Empress also reveals Bastian had her new name in mind, and begs him to shout it. After some doubt, Bastian calls out "AAAAA-GAAAAAA-BLAAAAAAAAH!!!" (translation: "Moonchild") in the thunder.

Bastian and the Empress meet face-to-face and it's revealed the Nothing took all of Fantasia aside from a grain of sand. She then tells him that his imagination and wishes can bring Fantasia back, and Bastian uses his mind power to do just that. He then wishes for a ride on Falkor, whom he uses to terrorize his bullies from earlier, no doubt causing a panic throughout the town. Bastian and Falkor laugh as the movie ends.

As I stated earlier, a lot think that this is one of the definitive children's films. It has imagination, great effects (which still stand the test of time), and wonderful acting. If you ask me though, I don't really think so. I still think that this is a great movie, but one of the best might be stretching it...just a bit. I think had I seen this as a kid I'd probably have thought that this was a much better film. I still love it though, and am glad to have finally sat down and watched it. ...One more thing though. Is it weird that I was in a Sonic-style reproduction of this (viewable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kM90xoseU ) and I have no idea where the basis of my characters were in this story? Strange...

SCORE:
7/10.

And because I liked this so much, ...here's a special treat.

"Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice" Update

Hey everyone. skull902 Here again.

Just wanted to give you all a little update on my little live-action series "Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice". Since I don't like seeing shows of mine running for just one season, I've decided to "renew" the series for a second season of seven episodes, just like the first.

Now just because I say there will be seven episodes doesn't necessarily mean that there will only be seven. Whenever I do an episode, I take in comments that might be used for the next one. I've created a little system for episode scheduling, just for fun. As long as I can get a (useable) comment on the penultimate (second-to-last) episode of the season, I'll add another episode to the season. Reason why it has to be the penultimate episode is I'm thinking of having a plot to the season finales. I think it's interesting and a bit unique.

Another thing about "Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice" I'd like to talk about is the delay of the second episode. My room got reconfigured on my birthday and right now, there's no way I could film the series. There simply isn't enough space. So until I either move out or get my room rearranged again, no episodes. But, seeing as I'm going to be putting episodes out at random without a clear schedule I think I'll be fine.

Well, that's all for me right now. Bye!

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 6

Oh, boy. Another delay. Due to the delay of the rest of Season 4, the rest of the "Sonic & Mario" continuity has been delayed as well, pushing the release date of the movie back from December 26, 2014 to June 26, 2015, the sixth anniversary of the series.

"Super Wars" Update

So a few things in relation to my new action figure-based series "Super Wars" have happened.

1. RabidSonicFan, who has been writing, changing, and re-writing the fifth season since April or so has given me five episodes of his current revision. The season isn't finished but I'm pretty impressed with what he's come up with.

2. I've switched around the schedule of the prequel season with Season 4. It'll make sense once the episodes premiere.

3. I ordered something I needed for one of the characters, will probably be revealed soon.

And that's all for now. Seeya!

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 5

This one isn't so much about the movie, but rather what's coming before the movie.

I was a little bothered that "Mario Aftermath" only had one season, so today I wrote another one. However, because of the plot of the original season, it will now be Season 2. This new season will have four episodes, much like most other "Sonic & Mario" spin-off seasons.

Because of this, the release dates of the original season and Seasons 1, 2, and 3 of "Sonic Aftermath" have been delayed. However, I've decided not to delay "Sonic & Mario: The Movie" from it's December 26, 2014 release date. It does mean a little less of a production schedule (four months as opposed to six, which is what the schedule before this allowed) but I think it'll be fine.

Also, this now means the continuity of "Sonic & Mario" will last 13 seasons, 86 episodes, and one movie. Not too bad if you ask me.

New "Super Wars" Season Written

A short announcement. Today I wrote a season of "Super Wars". Without giving too much away, it's not a typical season of the show, as it's a prequel of-sorts. I particularly like it a lot and I'm hoping my fellow "staffers" enjoy it as well. It's gonna run for 6 episodes, tying for the third-shortest season in the show.

Thank you.

skull902 Reviews: The Amazing Spider-Man

Okay, so today I saw "The Amazing Spider-Man" with one of my friends and I'm here to share my thoughts. If you don't like spoilers, then you need to go away. Right now. Seriously, go away. You shouldn't read any further if you don't want spoilers. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Anyway, the movie begins with the four- eh, eight, uh...four year-old played by an eight year-old Peter Parker playing hide-and-seek with his parents. Aw. But when he goes in his fathers' office, he finds the place ransacked and calls him in. His dad (Richard) and mom (Mary) make plans to have Peter stay with his Uncle Ben and Aunt May.

Cut to...somewhere between ten and twelve years later and Peter's in high school now. He gets bullied by a guy named Flash Thompson. Peter walks around and takes pictures until he sees Flash forcing another kid to...eat his vegetables? Um...okay, whatever. But Peter stops this ...healthy eating torture and gets beat up himself. At home he helps Uncle Ben clean the basement out after a flood and finds a case his father owned. He sees a picture in it of Richard with Dr. Curt Connors. Peter researches Connors and it turns out he's looking for interns for his job at Oscorp.

Peter steals an ID card to get in and sees his schoolmate Gwen Stacy (whom is the love interest) giving the tour. The guy who's ID card Peter stole can be seen getting tossed out. But they all meet the one-and-a-half-armed Dr. Connors and have a nice time...except for Peter, who decides to sneak around. Eventually his fooling around gets himself bitten by a spider and it gives him powers. Spider powers. He rips a girls shirt off by accident and then also accidentally kicks some ass afterward. Eventually he is taken in as an assistant or something by Dr. Connors.

After more shenanigans Peter and Uncle Ben have a fight. Peter runs and Ben looks for him, leading to his untimely death. Peter then dedicates himself to using his spider powers for good and to hunt Uncle Ben's murderer down. And he does so, with no results. But he starts to fight other criminals and gets the attention of many people, including Police Captain George Stacy, Gwen's father.

Peter is invited to Gwen's for dinner, and he and George get into a fight about whether Spider-Man is helping people or is just an asshole. As Peter leaves, he and Gwen kiss and he tells her he is Spider-Man. Meanwhile, Dr. Connors, who has been looking for a cure to his somewhat missing limb, finds a cure...a temporary one that turns him into a crappy CGI lizard man. He runs loose for a few and is stopped by Spider-Man, who saves a child from a dangling car afterward.

Eventually Peter learns the Daily Bugle is taking in photos of the Lizard, so he sets up a little photo-op in the Lizard's lair (the sewers) which I'm sure Lizard won't mind at all. They get in a fight after a while, and it leads to Lizard finding out Spider-Man is Peter Parker...with a "Property Of" sticker on the back of his camera which was left behind. ...Whatever.

Lizard then goes to the high school Peter attends and fights him there. It leads to a big scuffle out in the street where they're both being hunted for by the police and Gwen working on an antidote for Lizard. Spider-Man is eventually caught by the cops, lead by Stacy but makes quick work of them as his identity is revealed to the Captain. He lets Peter go but a cop shoots him just before George gives the order to hold fire.

The father of the child saved earlier calls up some crane operators through a friend of his and the crane operators set a clear path for Spidey to get to Oscorp. Meanwhile, Gwen successfully made the cure, but not without some trouble by Lizard who is setting something up to infect the entire city with the same thing he has (with a machine that was featured earlier in the movie). Gwen is driven off by the police but not before George takes the cure capsule and heads for Lizard, Spidey following along. They both confront him, Spider-Man freezing him up with some liquid nitrogen. Stacy shoots Lizard's frozen body but Lizard's regenerative abilities keep him intact and he fatally attacks the Captain.

Spider-Man replaces the capsule with the virus around with the capsule for the cure and all of Lizard's victims, as well as himself, are saved. Dr. Connors points out to Peter (after saving him) that the Captain is probably dieing and Peter runs to him, promising that he won't let Gwen get involved. George has a funeral but Peter doesn't show up and Gwen talks with him about it, Peter revealing his promise. However, a few days later I'm assuming, he whispers to her that he can't keep the promise. Gwen smiles a bit as the movie ends.

I know I didn't explain it too well or anything but you really need to see this one if you haven't. I mean...the action, the storytelling, a lot of the elements, everything just seemed to be in line. Definitely fitting for the first review of mine on this blog.

SCORE:
8/10.

New Video Editor For "Sonic & Mario"

Now yes, I know I got Sony Vegas Movie Studio specifically to edit new episodes of the series "Sonic & Mario", but since my brother agreed to edit the series with me beginning in Season 5, he's gotten a new computer and many video editing programs. After convincing me that downloading Vegas Movie Studio on his comp was unnecessary, we found it best to start editing the show on Blender.

Now this doesn't mean that the download of Vegas Movie Studio will go to waste. I'll be slowly learning that as I use it to edit "Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice". I know I also said I'd be editing "Über Duck" on it as well, but I'm starting to reconsider that. So "Über Duck" is a maybe.

So that's it for me for right now. Thanks guys.

New "Super Wars" Season Written

Another short announcement - today I started and completed writing the fourth Season of my new action figure-based series "Super Wars". It's the shortest of the four seasons so far, totaling only four episodes. The longest season at the moment is ten episodes. Ideas for at least four more seasons are to be written soon.

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 4

Hello, everyone. Unfortunate news. Due to me moving, the schedule for "Sonic & Mario" has been delayed, which in turn delays the movie. The release date has been pushed back again from September 26, 2014 to December 26, 2014. I didn't really want to do this but it had to be done. Hopefully the movie won't be delayed any further than that.

Thank you.

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 3

So...remember when I said I hope I'll have another update blog soon? Well...here it is.

Just a short thing, but music maker DrMackFoxx (whose piano covers of classic Sonic songs were featured in the four-part Season 2 finale of "Sonic & Mario") has agreed to let me use three original tracks of his for the movie. I've got a basic idea of what I'd like to use them for, and I'm pretty sure I'll stick to what I've got.

If you want to hear his compositions, covers or original, the Audio Portal of his Newgrounds page is at:
http://drmackfoxx.newgrounds.com/audio/

Thanks!

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 2

Hello there, everyone. This will be kind of a short one since I don't have much to say.

Because YouTube for whatever reason decided to remove the second part of the descriptions on people's channels, I went to WordPad and made myself a nice little document with the SEA Productions schedule. It pretty much just archives the stuff SEA has made with a date and all that jazz, so for instance, Season 1 of "Sonic & Mario" would be listed like this:

"Sonic & Mario" - Season 1:
Episode 1 (June 26, 2009).
Episode 2 (August 14, 2009).
Episode 3 (September 4, 2009).
Episode 4 (September 25, 2009).
Episode 5 (December 28, 2009).

But I realized when rescheduling the spin-offs that I was doing it a little different than what I had wrote down on my YouTube page, which is why this post is being made. Due to the earlier scheduling I am proud to say that the release date for "Sonic & Mario: The Movie" has been moved up from December 26 to September 26, 2014. As the announced dates of this movie (former and present) may imply, I'm trying to get it released on one of the four quarter-year anniversary dates (which would be either March 26, June 26, September 26, or December 26 on the calendar) of the series. I can't exactly guarantee that but it's what I want to do. I will for sure though guarantee a release date on the 26th of whatever month the movie is released. Any other date would kind of be unfitting for the series, in my opinion.

So, that's all for now, I hope to have another update for whoever reads this blog soon. Thank you.

The Nerd Station Is Back!

Ah yes, after many months of technical difficulties, my access to this blog is back.

Coming soon are new announcements regarding SEA-related series and other such things.

This blog is going to contain a few updates for things that have happened since February.

1. The release date for "Sonic & Mario: The Movie" has been pushed back from June 26, 2014 to December 26, 2014 due to certain circumstances involving Season 4 of "Sonic & Mario", which will be updated now.

2. Season 4 of "Sonic & Mario" has certainly had it's ups-and-downs. Windows Movie Maker recently fixed itself, allowing me to edit episodes 29, 30, and 31 and upload them to YouTube so now I can work on all the remaining episodes' scripts, frames, voice acting, all that nice stuff. Movie Maker fixing itself also lets my brother (spriter01) and I have more time to be able to acquaint ourselves to Sony Vegas Movie Studio. It's a very versatile program and a lot of things need to be learned before an episode of "Sonic & Mario" is made using it. The current plan is to release the last five episodes of Season 4 using Movie Maker to edit them, then take the time between then and Season 5 to learn Vegas.

3. A new series, "Super Wars", was announced. The series will be a superhero action figure series featuring Spider-Man, Wolverine, some of the Power Rangers and more. Check out the work-in-progress YouTube channel (and watch the announcement video) at: http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperWarsCentral

The current line-up of heroes from "Super Wars".

New Series Announcement!

I announced a new series today on my YouTube page, called "Spider-Man's Slightly Good Advice", where Spider-Man will answer the problems of YouTube users in a slightly good way. I've been thinking about doing this series and developing it since last April or so.

The way the fans will be able to submit the problem(s) they want Spider-Man to solve will be through the comments section. Up to three problems will be solved per episode, unless if it's a special occasion or something. So basically, the series depends on YouTubers commenting on each episode.

I haven't quite figured out how I'll structure the seasons yet, since there's no running plot throughout the course of the episodes. I'll figure out how to do the seasons soon.

The series is scheduled to premiere on April 18, 2012.

"Sonic & Mario: The Movie" - Update 1

Hey everyone, skull902 here again! I figured that it'd be better to post updates for the "Sonic & Mario" movie here as opposed to continually posting new videos on my YouTube page. I ought to make an advertisement for this blog though, nobody seems to have clicked on it.

Okay, so the first updates since the big announcement are: The script has started (and subsequently finished) being written. This is the first draft and I'll be constantly looking over it to see if there's anything to fix, and if I have no problems with it by March 1, I'll send it out to my fellow castmembers. With all the dialogue and additional animation to be put in, we're estimating that the movie will be 43-50 minutes long.

The second update is the movie has been scheduled. Right now we're anticipating a release date of June 26, 2014. That sounds like an ideal date because it's the fifth anniversary of the series, and it would be fitting to end it all on that date. Now of course this is subject to change, but let's just hope it doesn't have to.

Well, that's all for now. See you later!