HOLLY HOUSEN

Amazing news! Rob and Zom: The Power of Friendship is an Official Selection at the Detroit International Festival of Animation, screening April 4th at Detroit’s historic Senate Theater!

I still can’t get over the fact we lost a composing genius.

The thing with this scene is you’d think the music would cut off after the reverse, normally when ‘time reverse’ moments happen there’s no music that accompanies it other than the VHS rewind sound. BUT Guy Moon took the music that played before the ‘time out’, played it in reverse and struck a heavy electric guitar chord just to impact the viewers with ‘yep, that just happened’. Like the guitar’s almost going ‘whoa’ with you.

See, normally when we hear the tracks for cartoons they’re mostly just the same tracks every time used for specific moments unless there’s a very specific scene that invokes the emotional impact of a scene. Normally the music only changes according to what characters are present in the scene and/or the environment the characters are in. The music doesn’t really go hand-in-hand with the movement or action of the characters, it’s more ‘there is action, here is action music’.

Guy Moon, however, he gave the animation a sound, the music had a voice. It became a character in its own right. The backtracks of the episode was actively reacting to what happened on screen and I LOVE that about the sound of Danny Phantom, Fairly Odd Parents and many of the other shows he worked on.

So I've recently come across this really cool post by @isosceles-is-never-here and GOT ABSALUTLY HOOKED ON THE IDEA.

I think that in my version, Danny is a hero, which travels down to the underworld to visit the shade of an old friend (Haven't decided who yet). The only reason he is able to get inside the underworld in the first place is because of his half ghost and shade king status. Unfortunately, Hades does not appreciate him being in the underworld, so he has to fight his way down.

At first he uses his ghost form to try and sneak around but gets recognized very fast.

Every time he gets all the way down, he has only a few hours before he gets sent back to the surface.

Zagreus can encounter him when he stops to rest, in a room packed full of shades. He gives Zag the option to trade some boons with him, and as the relationship gets more hearts, he eventually appears in the lounge from time to time to hang out before he is returned back to the surface.

Decisions, decisions, decisions...

Listen closely, and you’ll hear me as the pregnant lady in the latest episode of Rob and Zom, “A Mortal Conundrum!” 🎙️

This classic episode got a well-earned rerelease with the show’s new look!

We’re LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS for a special episode of our CG animated series, Rob and Zom!

Our small indie team just completed a fully animated cut of our latest episode, “The Power of Friendship,” and we plan to submit a final version to festivals after a few minor revisions.

Check out the 5-minute episode here, and if you’d like to help make it better in any of the following areas, send your portfolio/reel to [email protected]!

• Set Decoration

• Texturing

• Knowledge of a better toon lines plugin for Maya

• Lighting

• CG Animation (e.g. walking at 1:36)