Greetings Monster Kids!
And welcome to the new MONSTROVILLE blog site. In the coming months we'll be adding lots more updates on the 5 min stop-motion short, currently in pre-production. In the meantime, please feel free to explore our past, and present development artwork.
These are very exiting time for SWAMP APE STUDIOS. Going from a 2D Flash show, to Stop-Motion is very exiting. We've been getting in contact with some very talented artists who have been working on the Stop-Motion industry for awhile, and are donating their free time to help get the short made, this way we can pitch it to various studios in hopes of getting the feature film picked up.
Enjoy!
Von Kreep
Producer/Director
In addition to voicing the lead role of “SpongeBob” in the Nickelodeon’s hit animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom Kenny is also familiar to Nick viewers as the voices of “Dog” CatDog and Heffer on Rocko’s Modern Life. His additional television voice work includes “Lumpus the Moose” on Camp Lazlow and “Eduardo” on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. He is also a regular cast member on the animated series Super Robot Monkey Team, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Handy Manny, Futurama, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls and as “Happy” on Fox’s animated series Sit Down, Shut Up. His voice talents can also be heard on the new educational series for PBS, “Wordgirl and he also voices the villain Zilius Zoxx on Warner Brothers' upcoming "Green Lantern" animated series, produced by the illustrious Bruce Timm.
Tom’s voice talents can also be heard as various robots in “Transformers-Revenge of the Fallen,” and as Rabbit in the upcoming feature film, “Winnie the Pooh.”
Kenny was a regular cast member of HBO’s critically acclaimed sketch program Mr. Show with Bob and David and appeared as the office loser “Persky” on Just Shoot Me. He has also guest-starred on The Drew Carey Show, Brotherly Love and Unhappily Ever After. Kenny creeped out audiences as the evil “Binky the Clown” in the cult film Shakes the Clown and starred with his wife (Jill Talley) in the Smashing Pumpkins’ award-winning video for their song “Tonight, Tonight.”
In addition to his voice work, Tom has appeared on such television shows as Premiere Blend,Comic Strip Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
An aficionado of old blues, jazz, country and rockabilly music, Kenny occasionally moonlights with his band, performing songs from his extremely obscure record collection. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jill, son McKinley and daughter Nora.
CLANCY BROWN AS GEAR/MECH GEAR. & EL PHANTASMO
Photo & Bio coming soon...
In the meantime, be sure to visit Clancy's web site: http://www.clancybrown.com
CAROLYN LAWRENCE AS ELSA VON GHASTLY
Photo & Bio coming soon...
In the meantime, be sure to visit Carolyn's web site: http://www.carolynlawrence.com
APRIL STEWART AS VERUCA VON GHASTLY
Photo & Bio coming soon...
In the meantime, be sure to visit April's web site: http://www.aprilstewart.com
With a career spanning more than 25 years, Jason Marsden has been affectoinately referred to as... “that guy from that show.” The seasoned actor has worked in film and television with the best and the brightest, including Ridley Scott (White Squall), Robert Downey Jr. (Ally McBeal), James Woods (Shark), Billy Crystal (Mr. Saturday Night), Jim Carrey (Fun with Dick and Jane), and countless others. With more than 150 credits to his name, Jason Marsden has defintely made a dent in the entertainment industry.
Originally from Warwick, Rhode Island, Jason and his parents relocated to California when he was 11 years old. After just a few weeks of his new after-school activity—scene study and commercial training—the charismatic Jason was instantly signed by an agency and saturated with auditions for film, television, voice-over, commercials, and more.
After turns on General Hospital, Webster, and Murphy Brown, Jason was cast as Eddie Munster in the revamped Munsters Today, which ran for three seasons in syndication. From there he appeared on Tales from the Crypt, Anything But Love, and Star Trek: The Next Generation before landing his second series regular role as Dash X in the series Eerie, Indiana. His character actor appeal soon caught the attention of Billy Crystal, who cast him as a younger version of himself in the film Mister
Saturday Night.
For the next few years, Jason co-starred in numerous television shows, including Baywatch, Blossom, Deep Space Nine. He starred in two more sit-coms after that. Almost Home with Britney Murphy, and Tom, starring Tom Arnold. He was soon asked to recurr on Full House, as D.J.’s rich boyfriend, Nelson. His "teen-hearthrob" status earned him another recurring gig for two years on the popular TGIF series Boy Meets World. Shortly after, he joined the cast of Step by Step (starring Suzanne Somers and Patrick Duffy) for their final two seasons.
The silver screen soon called to Jason and, at age twenty, he was offered a role appearing opposite Jeff Bridges in White Squall. On a production that spanned eight countries, he shared the screen with contemporaries Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Phillippe, and Balthazar Getty. Upon returning to the states, Jason propelled himself into more network television, appearing in episodes of The Jamie Foxx Show, Ally McBeal, Bram and Alice, Even Stevens, Just Shoot Me!, and Shark. It was his unforgettable guest starring role as Kim (the “pocket gay”) on Will & Grace, however, that earned him a place alongside Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, and Harry Connick, Jr.
Somehow, amongst all of his on-camera work, Jason has also managed to amass over 100 credits behind the mic. He has lent his voice to some of animation’s most beloved characters in cartoon series, feature films, radio programs, and more. Jason has played a wide range of roles—from the main character in the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away to the son of one of Disney’s favorite dogs in A Goofy Movie. At present, he is wrapping the first season of Hasbro’s GI Joe: Renegades for the HUB network, Fairly Odd Parents for Nickelodeon, and The Garfield Show on Cartoon Network. If you're a video game fan, you've probably heard Jason in such epic games as Fallout New Vegas, Knights of the Old Republic, and the title role in Tak and the Power of Juju.
Jason is also a proud member of the Directors Guild of America. Having helmed the season finale of Nickelodeon’s The Journey of Allen Strange, he has subsequently directed numerous music videos as well as several short films. His latest short film The Author: Part of Locker 13 (starring Krista Allen and Rick Hoffman) earned official selection at Palm Springs Shorts Fest, Phoenix Film Festival, Nashville International Film Festival, and continues touring the '10-'11 film festival circuit.
Back in the spotlight once again, Jason has recently appeared in several independent films including High Hopes (with David Faustino and Jason Mewes), Pizza Man (starring Frankie Muniz), as well as the much anticipated Blue Like Jazz, based on the famed novel, which just wrapped filming in Nashville, TN. While working on his current projects, Jason is studying the Charles Conrad Method at the Steve Eastin Studio and enjoying the role he was born to play...loving husband to his wife, Christy and awesome dad to his son, Clark Otis.
For more about Jason, including his Acting, Directing and Voiceover Reel please visit:
http://www.jasonmarsden.com
Eric started his career in animation as a character designer, working with a few production studios in Hollywood. It was this introduction to the animation world that eventually led him to a successful career in voiceovers.
In just a few short years, Eric has starred in such Emmy award winning shows as Nickelodeon’s – “El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera”, "The Fairly Odd Parents", "Fan Boy and Chum Chum", Adult Swim’s “Superjail”, Warner Bros. Animation’s “The Looney Tunes Show”, and Hasbro's GI JOE: Resolute. Aside from his television credits, Eric has played multiple roles on "The King and Us", a web-series sponsored by Burger King, and was seen on the NFL on FOX pre-game show. Eric recently had a cameo role as "Digger the Nascar Gopher" in the box-office hit "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel".
For more about Eric, please visit his blog: http://bauzilla.blogspot.com
Don’t let your kids follow the trail of candy through the haunted woods. Past the old Jack Hill Graveyard they’ll find MONSTROVILLE, where all Halloween Candy is made!
Edward Von Ghastly lives in this haunted seaside with his mechanized sidekick, Gear. Together they navigate his home town filled with monster, zombies, witches, ghosts, ghouls, werewolves, and all the things that go bump in the night: Gruesome greasers, headless specters, monsters from outer space, pirates, and mad scientists.
Edward Von Ghastly lives in this haunted seaside with his mechanized sidekick, Gear. Together they navigate his home town filled with monster, zombies, witches, ghosts, ghouls, werewolves, and all the things that go bump in the night: Gruesome greasers, headless specters, monsters from outer space, pirates, and mad scientists.
Speaking of mad scientists, Edward’s father is the mad scientist Baron von Ghastly. He and his family reside in Von Ghastly Manor atop the second tallest hill overlooking Monstroville and the root beer sea. They make a creepy brand of candy for Monstroville’s beloved holiday, Halloween. No one, not even the Baron, knows how long Von Ghastly’s have been making "Ghastly Gruesome Goodies" in their factory on Spook Hill, but its a long time. And the candy is the cat’s meow! They’re the bee’s knees (Which is also one of their secret ingredients!). They’re really very good.
But some of the Baron’s experimental confections have been known to come to life and wreak havoc upon the town below! Its up to Edward and Gear to save the day!
One day Edward will be in charge of candy-making at the old factory, but until that time he must protect Monstroville from every manner of seen and unseen menaces (In a town called “Monstroville” there’s bound to be many!) and worse, mediocre candy produced by his family’s most unscrupulous rival, El Phantasmo and his wife Satana. Their ho-hum candy making facility is located in an old abandoned amusement island park and they vow to crush his number one candy making rivals, the Von Ghastly family!
Welcome to Monstroville!
Monstroville is a Flash animated cartoon for kids of all ages. We're currently working on the short pilot that will serve to help pitch a Monstroville as a series. If you dig Mad Monster Party, & The Nightmare Before Christmas, than you'll want to see Monstroville get made!
This indie production is a labor of love, and the entire cast and crew is donating their time, and talents so that the series can see the light of day.
THE CREW:
* Art Director - Jeremiah Alcorn
* Music Composer - Gregory Hinde (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy).
* Writers - Von Kreep, Carolyn Lawrence, and Levi Wilson
* Animation Supervisor - Kris Boban
* BG Layout/Location Supervisor - Joshua Gay
* BG Painting Supervisor - Drake Brodahl
* Character Designer - Dave MacDougall
* BG Layout/Location Artist - Aleksandar Prohaska
* Prop Designer - Darren Ward
Here's a rough design by Owen for the upcoming pilot. Our monster town's Kreepy King of Kustomizers, Professor Ludvig Von Helmet. Of course as always in Monstroville fashion I needed to pay homage to my Kustom Kulture childhood hero's George Barris, and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
Drake/Pumml here. This is a background I just finished painting for the short. Done in Photoshop, but trying to capture that traditional look. Also, I was asked to shoot for that Willy Wonka feeling and think it's got the right vibe. Art Direction by Miah Alcorn. BG design by Josh Gay and clean-up by Jesse. Hope you like!
Also don't forget to check out the Monstroville IndieGoGo donation page that I'm spearheading to help get the project made!
Hey monster kids!
It's been awhile since we've posted anything new, so here's a sneak peek of our opening sequence from our new Spanish storyboard artist Javier Salvador.
Enjoy!
Von Kreep
It's been awhile since we've posted anything new, so here's a sneak peek of our opening sequence from our new Spanish storyboard artist Javier Salvador.
Enjoy!
Von Kreep
