Budgeting and Production Style: How Big Can We Scale it As For $0?

My filmmaking production and animation/comics production style is modeled after 2 things: Sagittarius, and Japanese filmmaking.

Meaning: Create illusions of grandeur utilizing a nonexistent budget. In other words, how pretty can we make the vision and product look, for free. 

As for Sagittarius. Sagittarius wants to do everything on a large scale, including production values. Filmmakers such as Spielberg and Walt Disney belong to this sign. 

MORE Prophetic Visions of the Future of Online Video

While 2006 was a watershed and breakout year for Online Video. There's still a lot more people, companies, and entrepreneurs can do with it. From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Canada, France, and Atlanta.

Probably one element that could generate a LOT of profits for the online video market is live video. Not so much as live events, but animation and studio made online and traditional films and TV shows. I'm currently running a live online TV network, but it's not going to be up until sometime next year. 

However, we're definitely seeing two markets emerging: The market for time and place shifting streaming video. And the market for time and place shifting Live Video. Cartoon Network, Disney XD, DirecTV, and Adult Swim (four major players) already have options for the latter medium set up so you can watch live TV broadcasts from the mainstream, on your cellphone or PC or wherever you maybe. And I'm sure Google will be playing catchup with the live online broadcasting industry (the livestreams of the world) in time.

You Know, I Don't LIKE People Who Simply ASSUME They're "Bigger" Than Me.....

You know why? Cuz they're NOT.

Yeah, get on it, THUGS!!!

Fantasy Stories That Have a Positive Portrayal of Adoption

Steve Jobs' LIFE story (first and foremost, because it is a fantasy tale of an adoptee living the American Dream.

The Greatest Stories About Adoption:

Little Orphan Annie
Tarzan
Harry Potter
Meet the Robinsons

I like to take a Horatio Alger view of adoption.

"Two World's. One Family."

Heartwarming, I know...

Why do I endorse adoption so much, as a theme and way of life?

Shouldn't you all be able to figure that out?

Because I AM adopted, in Ann Arbor Michigan at the University of Michigan Hospital, home of the Wolverines and Nobel Prize Winners. And yes, it was a closed adoption, because supposedly open adoptions weren't a feasible option in the early 80's like kids have the luxury of them being now. Not that I'm complaining. If the situation was different, it  very well could have changed my life for better OR worse, but still altered the timetable and course of history as we know it. ESPECIALLY the internet. 

I live in Central Florida now. It was an adjustment, to say the least,  but I've definitely made the best of my life. Like I said. I have a Horatio Alger Creative American Dream Philosophy. Just like my hero, Stephen King.

Here's the deal with self-published and indie comics, color, black and white, or otherwise....

"geek culture" used to NEVER BE geek culture. I HATE SELF LABELING! And I hate that comics have sort of become that. This uncool self-labeling thing that attracts social miscreants, FREAKS, and WEIRDOS. Part of the problem has been the recent popularity and mainstream "Hollywood" appeal of Cartoon Network, Batman, and comic book and anime conventions.

All that fame, success, power, and money lurking in back behind the curtain has attracted some genuinely mean-spirited, know-it-all, gossipy, and/or weird/freakish people, both male or female, who are essentially there for the power, money, fame, and nothing else. It's driving the very poeple that made it cool in the first place away. I'm surprised I've stayed with comics this long, considering how downhill a lot of it's gone. 

Twitter and YouTube only kind of helped things. But in a way it was a pandora's box. 

It's not the same industry we people in our late twenties and early 30s grew up on.

We've all seen the horrific online trashtalk, people. Fans, professional, Fan-fessionals. Whatever you are.

Be nice people. This isn't a Conan movie. It's not the Crusades of the Dark Ages. It's show business. Well, to me it is anyway.

Being rude and mean to others is a contagious disease. A parasitic virus people, who might otherwise hire and employ you, with their millions of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo dollars, don't like. It's important not to be disheartened or discouraged by the negative and insult-based elements of the internet. Too many people buy into it. Too many people assume that's what's going on in person. It's not! People still have the potential to  be Good People and do Good things. Not Bad.

The world can be a dangerous place. But it's not always, and it doesn't "have to" be. Don't let adulthood make you cynical. Wise and experienced maybe, but not mean and cynical.

"Discrimination" in Japanese Anime and Manga. "Is it even real?"

Does it exist on some level, against whites, Americans and anyone who's not Japanese? Yes. But I don't believe it should be seen as as black and white as that. No pun intended.

Sure there's Japanese racism, xenophobia, and discrimination against foreigners getting steady work in Japan. But it's very tied to the cultural and social mentality of the Japanese workforce in general.

I don't think it's so much "Japanese hate foreigners" as it is "We're not used to seeing foreigners in Japanese roles. Why water it down?"

Honestly, I don't know what to do about it. America had the blacklist in the 1940s. And Japan has the anti-foreigner thing.

It can be tough to say how much of it is racism or discrimination, and how much is simply "We don't like seeing people challenge tradition and the status quo.

Barack Obama represents the most recent example of this type of thing.

I'll say this much.

America had no problem with African Americans making fools, stereotypes, and racist versions of murderers and rapists for years, decades even, with them emergence of rap music, where it was okay to be ignorant and a stereotype of yourself, but not literate and booksmart.

People who weren't black weren't THREATENED by that at ALL,  because it wasn't  viewed as a threat to racism and stereotypes in general.

Then, SUDDENLY! ONE Glorious day, we have a black man as a captain of the ship, and the White Wing goes APE SHIT!

Why do you think that IS exactly. I doubt it has much to do with "behavior". Or "policy". Because Obama excels at BOTH of those.

Think about it.

Not gonna lie, that stung...

There was a time when in the media, the personal attacks on me got so personal, that I considered retiring early on a weekly basis.

Fortunately that movement seems to have died...a bit. And with any real luck it and those people will STAY dead.