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!).
"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.
