Finally saying 'Good-bye'.

It's been a long time since I've updated this blog. Over the last couple of years I've neglected this blog and whatever following I had, which was only about three people. I left New Mad Cowpictures and this blog without a Good-bye to become a distant memory floating around in my head.

I formed New Mad Cowpictures on November 11th 2006 after buying a copy of Lionhead's latest release 'The Movies'. I was so excited that I would finally have the ability to tell my dumb little stories in a visual medium. As a child I loved coming up with characters and stories that I would act out in my room using coat-hangers as props, jumping bed to bed shooting the bad guys. I couldn't really draw, my writing skills were poor (as shown through the development of this site), and I couldn't voice my idea clearly enough to others to share my stories with my friends. That is why I was so excited to finally have that ability.

I started off my story-telling carrier writing a thriller-detective story with comedy aspect to it, the story followed a Rabbit, a Corpse and a Man who doesn't have a clue the show was cleverly titled "The Rabbit, Dead Dude and A Man who doesn't have a Clue". The cast would work at a detective agency called 'TRDDAAMWDNHC' which again because of my clever fifteen-year-old mind stood for "The Rabbit, Dead Dude and A Man who doesn't have a Clue". I remember working out how the title would be abreated, god I was stupid back then.

 "At TRDDAAMWDNHC (The rabbit, dead dude and a man who dose not have clue) headquarters. Rabbit J. Bignose is eating a comic book and dead dude is in the church dead and the guy"

Above is the only sentence that I wrote for "The Rabbit, Dead Dude and A Man who doesn't have a Clue", I can see some of my humour in it. Like this site "The Rabbit, Dead Dude and A Man who doesn't have a Clue" became a distant memory until I dug the file up the other day (on a side note I've had this file for six years... Fuck!). 

After playing around in the game for a couple of months I created Sci-fi epics that, in my young mind believed, rivalled Star Wars... Oh! How I was wrong. I created 'The End of' Saga, 'Escape from the City' series, 'Smackula', and 'Soul Harvest' all horrible films. Yet I enjoy making them I could finally express myself, for the first time in my entire life I could express myself.

In the September of 2007 I finally join TMO (The Movie Online), a site dedicated to films you made in The Movies. He I meet like minded people and gained a following as 'Weridman', I was heavily dyslexic and couldn't spell. I loved this time of my life, I had some recognition with the release of 'Soul Harvest: A Creature from Hell' which reached the top five most watched films in it's genre. To be honest I never understood why 'Soul Harvest' did what it did. It's horrible... Story, characters, and setting where all flawed and for the most part it wasn't even scary!

After the recognition of 'Soul Harvest: A Creature from Hell' I instantly started working on a 'Soul Harvest II' and 'III', where I learn "the squeal is never as good as the original". 'Soul Harvest II' was panned by everyone who watched it, I instantly cancelled the third film. These where fun times.

I remember watching Sidy's films TMO and being blow away by the quality of the editing and the story. I remember watching her tutorials on how to make overlays, and how to import your own song into The Movies. The end result of all of this was a trailer for a film called 'EKIO' which again reached one of the top five films ever watched on TMO. Sadly I never got around to making the film, I only ever wrote one scene.

Years went by and I started to follow Jon Graham, was known as Digitalph33r, and got into making films in Halo 3...

You know what I loved New Mad Cowpictures and every thing I did because of it, and I've always been pissed at myself for never saying 'Good-bye' to the part of my life that got me here today. I'm currently in University studying to become a better sound technician and editor, I have a few films under my belt that have won awards and New Mad Cowpictures got me here. So in short;

Good-bye New Mad Cowpictures, thank you for everything.

Hopefully one day time will call for me to name a studio and the cow will rise. Until that fateful day good-bye and thank you!

Simon Burdall.

News: Hi.

Hello,

How is everyone? Um... Sorry for the lack of updates I've been really busy with college & other projects. So anyway many of you (None of you because no one reads this blog) have been asking;

"what going on you keep promising to post new Flash animations & other projects soon on You Tube, etc..."

Yes I keep saying that I'll post some stuff but recently I've been busy with projects & jobs that eat up to much of my time. I've had so much to do recently I've had a job being an Assistant Director for a small independent project, I got a job at Bladdud, which side note if you live in Bath area go & check the site out, & on top of that I had college & New Mad Cowpictures work to do. So I just haven't had the time to do any of the things that I promised, also I was going to upload them tomorrow but I've got a production meeting at 10:00am that lasts all day.

OK as I said above I got a job at a site called Bladdud, I've have no idea when the site goes live but I'll post it on here when I know. Bladdud is a site dedicated to showing off Bath's local restaurants, bars, plays, & other forms of entertainment. I got a job reviewing local plays & films, awesome! Anyway as I send before go & check it out when the sites up which I think might be this Friday?! I don't know maybe that's when the site is open to staff, as I said I don't know.

Anyway on to NMCP news. Purple & Annoying, I don't think I'm going to continue on with the series as it is. I've been think about just making one last episode that would finish the series off, I started writing the script for a feature length special about a month ago & the script got lost under all the other junk I'm working on. I'll try & get back & work on the script but if you don't see or hear anything this summer about it, I wouldn't hold your breath for another installment of Purple & Annoying.

This goes for most things, Wasteland, I started to rewrite that but then I got pulled into the Assistant job so I had to put the show on hold until I finished the job. Now I've finished I have no feeling for it, this also goes the same for other project I was working on. To be frank (can I still be me, ha) I've lost a lot of feeling for Machinima as a whole, while its a good starting place I feel that I'm limited to what the game can do... I want to move onto more film & television projects then sitting at home in front of a TV recording basically gameplay & making a story out of it. While as I said is a great place to start out its not what I want to do.

So in short expect to see more live-action & animation projects, then Machinima project from me. Anyway I'm super tried I'm going to play Red Dead Redemption for a hour then go to bed. Anyway thank you for sticking with me.

Thank you,
Simon.

News: Lots of projects done.

Hi,

Right lets get started. Purple & Annoying has been delay because I want to try some new techniques but more importantly I want to try & make an anaemic just to see how much they make my job essayer or harder. For the last few weeks I've been ask to help with other project & other event that I've been to preoccupied to start, so I'm sorry for that, anyway I hope to start next week because I have to film an interview this week so I'll be occupied with that to start Purple & Annoying.

The "A Super Awesome Animation Fairy Tale Thing," which I can finally talk about, has been finished for about a week but I haven't had time to export it online but I hope to do that tomorrow sometime. If your wondering what the "A Super Awesome Animation Fairy Tale Thing" is, well wonder no more, this is a college project where we had to create a fractured fairy tale in flash.

A fractured fairy tale is where you take a normal fairy tale & flip it on its head. Changing whatever you want the characters, setting & only keeping the basic story elements the same. We choose to take the classic Three Little Pigs & flip it on its head. We change the wolf's role in the story to the main protagonist & his motives. I'll try to put it up online so you can judge it for yourselves.

I've also been working with Jake Davis working on, his brain child, "No Time Like The Future" which is an awesome... I don't know what to categorise it as. Anyway this an awesome peace of writing by Jake & it will be on Elder Jack's You Tube page soon.

I'm currently working on a lot of scripts & stories that I would love to make into full project but there still in development, so I won't talk about them until they are physical projects.

Some of you might of notice that the F.A.Q has had a bit of a do over, I've clean out some questions, & rephrased some of them. I'm also writing some walkthroughs of different Machinima platfroms & equitment so you know what will work for you. Anyway sorry for the lack of updates but... Halo Reach!

Anyway, Thank you,
Simon.

Video: What Happened the Night Before?

Hi,

Right lots of news & updates or whatever you call them. First, my latest college project "What Happened the Night Before?" Is up on You Tube for a while now I just forgot to post it on the site. At first I wasn't going to upload is because Overall I'm disappointed with the project, half the film has a problem with sound, there is some bad cuts between shots & I don't like how I handled the opening scene.

Also for some reason the uploaded version has cut the opening credits off. The only reason I uploaded this project because they showed everyone in our year films to our department & I sat at the back of one of the showings shitting myself thinking that they're going to hate it & to my surprise they actually like the film & not just in the showing I was in. The link is below.

What Happen the Night Before (You Tube)

Right on to other news, there will be two Purple & Annoying episodes around the Easter Break, then the last two the two half-terms after that, so yeah awesome. The reasons for working on episodes while I'm away from college is because I have way way to much work to do so I'll rather focus on my college work then Purple & Annoying.

Hopefully in the next two weeks there will be an animation coming out, I can't say much about it now apart from its base on a fractured fairy tale. There also an other animation that I might upload but don't hold your breath. Anyway I think that is all that I had on my mind... Anyway if theres more infomation I will update this post. Anyway.

Thank you,
Simon.

News: Working on everything.

Hi,

Well I've been working on every project at once & its nearly killed me. I've been writing the last four Purple & Annoying episodes, I've started to edited the my college project entitled "What Happened the Night Before?", & I'm still writing for "The Super Awesome Live-Action Show". On top of that I'm writing some new music, writing two animations & animating them. Anyway I through I would update the blog since I haven't done it since the beginning of this month. So yeah... How are you?

Thank you,
Simon.