"The Labor Party have... turned the knob all the way up to eleven." -Wil Anderson, host of The Gruen Nation
"The First thing I think we should do is thank the ALP for making that ad. It's just absolutely brilliant entertainment." -Russel Howcroft, George Patterson, Young and Rubicam
"I think it's an entertaining waste of money." -Todd Sampson, Leo Burnett
"Very entertaining and great animation." -Neil Lawrence, Lawrence Creative Strategy
To celebrate Powerhouse Animation Studios wrapping up work on Sony's DC Universe Online and Disney's Epic Mickey, we took advantage of the recent beautiful weather in Austin and took a Friday to go and play at Zilker park.
Thanks to Doug for the idea, Meg for the extra photos, and everyone else for a great time.
There are too many photos to label, but we will just let them speak for themselves.
Things have been so busy that we have not had a chance to update the blog. Time to fix that.
Two weeks ago at Fantastic Fest we debuted the trailer and the first episode of our project for Halo Waypoint. We are working on a Waypoint series called Apt. 117. The series is being written and animated at the studio and we are very excited to be a part of the process. We are working with some great folks at 343 Industries, and Alison Stroll from 343 came down and sat on the panel for the premiere with us.
They released the trailer today on youtube. Check it out here:
We also showed the first episode at the con.
The panel consisted of (l to r) Micah Lincoln (writer, voice, animator), Brad Graeber (Powerhouse CEO), Alison Stroll (producer, 343 Industries), Jeff Freeman (writer, voice, animator), Rachel Citron(producer), and Jason Williams (Director).
There were a lot of great questions, and we were happy with the reaction of the crowd. Master Chief was even there:
Powerhouse also had a room at Fantastic Arcade, which by night doubles as the country Karaoke room at the Highball. It features a pretty sweet Kenny Rogers on velvet.
It's been a very busy week at Powerhouse Animation Studios, a lot of the activity has been exciting, hope we can talk about some of it soon.
-You want to see live Powerhousians in person? We are live and in person at Fantastic Fest! Today-- Friday, Sept 24th 11-6pm Come watch some cartoons with us in a Kenny Rogers Karaoke room at the Highball on S. Lamar! Yes, thats right. It is pretty awesome.
-Also, (cue reverb) SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! We are having a BIG SCREEN premiere of our HALO "APT. 117" cartoon for Microsoft. We will premiere the first episode with a panel where we will discuss how the project came about etc. The premiere is at 5pm at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar in Austin. Come and see it before everyone else does!
Thanks to everyone at the studio for all the hard work lately.
Things have been very busy at the animation studio, as we are wrapping up some motion comics for the DC Universe MMO. We are very excited to announce that Sony released an interview with Gamer Director, Chris Cao, that also happens to have a couple of quick snippets from one of our comic-art cinemas.
It's just a small peek, but look for it around 1:11 and 5:53 in the clip below.
You can read more about it, and watch the clips in HD here.
We can't wait to show you more, and see you in this game!
