Will Work For Food

Posted in A Dollar a Day, The Biz, Unworthy Man on May 31st, 2008 by Phil Abatecola

Therapy Screen CaptureHollywood, 2008.

The straits are dire and circumstances… circular. Well, more obtuse really, but whose looking?

Accepting a job as a director/producer of a music video has been a welcomed challenge for me, but it has left little time to get my writing done. Beyond that, I helped spearhead an entertaining and fascinating reality television pilot with 3210 Films and my good friend Josh Davlin. The pilot, entitled Therapy, will be up for viewing in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for that!

In other, very exciting news, A Dollar a Day has been picked up by the same company and they will be taking it to market very soon along with Therapy! Let’s hope for some brevity here and may the universe allow us to sell these wonderful shows.

Also, I’ve recently partnered with a great sound designer and music producer extraordinaire Michael Archaki for the animatic of my feature, An Unworthy Man. Over the next few weeks, also keep an eye out for some samples of the storyboards and the animated version which Michael will be designing the sound for.

Alright, back to the obtuse grind stone.

Grinding…

DF Progresses

Posted in The Biz on May 4th, 2008 by Phil Abatecola

With Big Brother 9 behind me, things are moving forward.

New conceptual work for Dragon Fire is nearly complete. Sketches have been going back and forth for a while, but some things are finally being set in stone. When you have a “job” and try to do complete your side projects on the… side, things take absolutely forever.

But the new art will be worth it, and we have an amazing conceptual artist on board. Norm Quiros has designed for several visual FX companys, Lusas Arts (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed), feature films, and several video games.

Some of those sketches will be available here and on the official Dragon Fire website soon at www.theonehero.com.

More importantly though, I’ll be seeing Iron Man tonight and it had better KICK ASS, otherwise it’s gonna get the Transformers Treatment.

Anticipating…