Hello Newgrounds. My productivity here on Newgrounds has unfortunately been minimal, seeing as how the only thing I've submitted to Newgrounds within the last year or so was Origin of Conductor. This is primarily due to the fact that I've been spending most of my time doing artwork on Deviant Art, I've been doing a lot of music gigs, my internal hard drive was failing in January and wasn't replaced until mid-March, and laziness in general. It has taken me a while but I've finally gotten back to working on my main animation project "Like A Rock Star" and I've essentially dedicated this entire month to working on and completing this project.
This week I posted in the forums, requesting for voice actors to voice act for this movie. If anyone who happens to be reading this would be interested in voice acting for this movie, please visit this forum post here for more details: http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1338049. Time is running out and I've already got some voice actors on board so this is basically going to be a first come, first serve kind of thing for anyone else who may want to voice act for this movie. And as of now, one of the six characters with dialog, Tod Stevens, has been officially cast. I've also got a couple of potentials for the main character Randy so I might have that character cast soon. In addition, I still need a voice actress for this movie who can convincingly cry for a good 10-15 seconds.
As for the animation itself, I plan to work on the bulk of the animation next week. I've already done a lot of the preliminary work, but I still have more preliminary work left to complete as of this moment in time before I can even get to animating. I have a feeling already that I'm going to be losing some sleep over this project in the days to come =p. And this is mainly attributed to the fact that, in addition to submitting this animated movie to the portal, I would also like to submit this movie to a couple of film festivals that are coming up shortly. Though my sister lady-ryuuxx87 should be helping out me out with some things so hopefully that will lighten my workload a bit.
On the music end of things, some of the members of my brother's rock band Shryne are helping me record a couple of songs for the movie's soundtrack. Yesterday I was recording the drum tracks with the drummer of the band, K-Dawg, using a live drum kit. I'll be recording the guitar tracks myself tomorrow and then send them to the lead singer of the band, JB, who'll be singing/playing bass on the two tracks. I'll still be needing 2 more pieces of music for this movie though, so if I don't happen to have enough time to record a couple of songs myself, I may go to the forums again to find a composer or two to write some music for this movie or look around the audio portal and see if I can find anything there that I could use (that is, if the composer of whatever work I find gives me permission to).
Well that's everything I can think of talking about right now. Later :).
***UPDATE 6/4/2013***
The process of making this movie has been very slow. I'm now thinking that I'll be submitting this project to the portal by the end of June, considering how there are still many things left for me to do before I can even get to the animation stage and I'm still awaiting help from a few people.