Seventh Sanctum Blog

Latest contest entries!

Only about 16 more days to go in the Cross-Genre Character Contest!  We also have 2 more entries:

• Sin Invoker
• Scarlet Placebo, Medical Grenadier

The B-Movie generator, as you've seen, is coming along well. Here's a few more entries:

• Attack of the Sharks
• Battle of The Hollow Earth
• Blood Mountain
• Demon War!
• Ghoul Siege!
• Lizzie Borden versus The Horrible Robot
• Medusa and Marie Curie go to Shangri-La
• Medusa versus The Terrible Gorillas
• Terrible Island
• The Amazing Legend of the Piranah-Men
• The Chemical Women
• The Incredible Teacher
• The Legendary Professor Jones
• The Los Angeles Terror
• The Madhouse
• The Moscow Suffering
• The Story of New Jersey
• The Terror of Boston
• The Titanic Person
• War of Uranus

-Steve

For all you animators

If you want to get some ideas on an animation career, I interviewed animator Josh Burton at Fan To Pro.

- Steve

More from the B-Movie generator

By my estimates I'm about 1/3 done with the B-Movie generator, but it's hard to tell.  A sample so far:

Aladdin Unbound
Attack of Sensation Island
Attack of the Killer Cat
Demon Attack 1972
Earthquake!
Sandstorm 1960
Siege of Horrible Island
Siege of the Colossal Leech
The Adventures of the Tiger-Man
The Asylum
The Bird-Men from Beyond
The Bloody Cats
The Chemical Cyborg
The Evil Legend of the Snake-Man
The Ghosts go to Uranus
The Horrible Teacher
The Impossible Gorilla
The Mission
The Rage of Russia
The Whorehouse of Medusa

- Steve

Beatles Rock Band: An analysis

Originally Posted here in fan to pro.

I'm not a Beatles fan per se - much like Elvis, I acknowledge their great music and importance culturally.  I like a lot of their songs - and they made a LOT of great songs.  So I write this article from the perspective of a person who isn't overly biased.

I'd like to write on Beatles Rock Band and what we can learn from it.

Contest updates

One contest update this week:

Intergalactic zealot

22 days to go, keep 'em coming!

- Steve

The Next Generator: B-movies

I know I started it ages ago - and decided to re-start it to tackle it in a more organized manner.  Some results:

• Assignment: Justice
• The Abominable Adventures of the Scorpion-Women
• The Adventures of the Piranah-Person
• The Amazing Teacher
• The Asylum of Elizabeth Bathroy
• The Evil Amphibian Person
• The Impossible Adventures of Joan of Arc
• The Psychic Man
• The Saint Louis Evil
• The Wonder of Canada

I think it's got a good feel so far - and there's more to come.  I'm taking "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia" and going through it to find common movie title patterns.

It's a bit of heavy effort, but worth it.

- Steve

Amusingly retro/cute GI Joe Art

I love seeing different art styles, and this retro look is charmingly clever:

• GI Joe
• Cobra

- Steve

Contest entries!

It keeps going - and is it just me, or are folks digging the horror mixes?

• Jackal, the Dungeon Salvager
• The Destiny Corruptor

This one is a little slower than the last, but we're still getting high quality of art and ideas. I think next contest I'll try something different (if my new generator gets done . . .)

- Steve

Go Farther: The next (big?) thing

Originally Posted at Fan To Pro.

Hoping to be the next JK Rowling, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Gary Gygax, etc.?

I'm concerned in the wake of Harry Potter, and to a lesser extent Twilight, there's going to be efforts to duplicate the success of the same - with dismal results.  I already see people accused of being derivative of Stephanie Myer when they clearly weren't.  I see a lot of imitators of the above people, and little of the passion.

So what are people waiting for?  What's the next big thing (or small thing that feels big)  What does it need?

Synergy.  Three kinds in fact.

Originally Posted at Fan To Pro.

Hoping to be the next JK Rowling, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Gary Gygax, etc.?

I'm concerned in the wake of Harry Potter, and to a lesser extent Twilight, there's going to be efforts to duplicate the success of the same - with dismal results.  I already see people accused of being derivative of Stephanie Myer when they clearly weren't.  I see a lot of imitators of the above people, and little of the passion.

So what are people waiting for?  What's the next big thing (or small thing that feels big)  What does it need?

Synergy.  Three kinds in fact.

Latest Contest Entries:

The latest contest is here.

Our latest contest entries of 9/7/2009:

• Astral Linguist
• Vampiric Rifleman
• Bomb Killer
• Devil Invoker
• Sin Hacker