They do all sorts of comedic and game content. Now, Rooster Teeth has become this titan in the web animation industry. I think the first real break-out show was Red vs.
What got me hooked into it was Machinima, which is this style of animation where you perform the animated film inside of a video game, and then dub over the motion of the game with your own dialogue. It’s funny, there are varying degrees of quality. Then I finish it all off in Final Cut Pro.ĭave: Do you watch a lot of animated web stuff on YouTube? After Effects is a really great tool for creating three-dimensional animation. Then I build character assets inside of Photoshop, then export those to After Effects, where I animate the characters like puppets. It’s mainly editing dialogue, something I’m sure you’re very familiar with, Dave. Matt: It’s not an easy task to do it all by myself, but I have a background in film and television production, so I came with a lot of those skills when I started.
Then after that, we recorded dialogue for everybody, and then I animated the entire season.ĭave: You can do an animated series as basically a one-person production team? What kind of equipment and software do you use?
I brought together a team of actor, improv-er, writer types, and got them all into a room to brainstorm ideas and collaboratively craft a script for the series. I really wanted to emulate that style of production in making a web-series.
The inspiration for it was that I always wanted to be the showrunner of an animated TV series, but the opportunities for that are few and far between. We’re about to wrap up our first season, and then the second season will premiere sometime in the fall. It allows you to consume them really, really quickly, and it’s structured more like a lot of the web-comics that I love. I really like the idea of this bite-sized video content. It’s not like your normal web-series that’s like three- to five-minute episodes or longer. I call it an animated web-comic because each episode is only about thirty to ninety seconds long. Matt: Space Pirates in Space is an animated web-comic about a crew of incompetent space pirates robbing the galaxy one screw-up at a time. Describe it a little bit, and what’s its current status? I’d like Matt to go first and tell us about Space Pirates in Space. Cate, welcome to the show.ĭave: Just to start out with, we’re going to talk about what our personal experiences have been with uploading stuff to YouTube. She’s a graduate of the Alpha Young Writers Workshop, and a recent college grad who’s been vlogging on YouTube since 2010, where she’s racked up over three thousand subscribers. Matt, welcome to the show.ĭave: Joining us for the very first time is Cate Matthews. He’s also written extensively about video games and other geeky stuff for Lightspeed Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, and Tor.com. His fiction has appeared in The Living Dead Two, Daily Science Fiction, and is forthcoming in Space and Time Magazine.
He’s the creator of Space Pirates in Space, an animated web-series that premiered on YouTube in 2012. First up, we’ve got Matt London, making his eighth appearance on the show. We’re joined by John Joseph Adams and not one, but two Guest Geeks. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the host discusses various geeky topics.ĭave: Our panel topic today will be YouTube for geeks. This panel discussion first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by David Barr Kirtley. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.