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Garrick Lane
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Artist // Hobbyist // Film & Animation
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Current Residence: NC
Favourite genre of music: The Whatever Genre
Favourite photographer: My father
Operating System: Mac
MP3 player of choice: itouch
Shell of choice: Mussels
Wallpaper of choice: 70s style
Skin of choice: my own
Favourite cartoon character: Care Bears... My Daughter\'s Choice
Personal Quote: I do my best work when I feel mentally unstable

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How can you make favorites?
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Audioslave
Favourite Games
Figuring out Illustrator
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Don\'t Game
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Pens, Pencils, Freehand, Photoshop, Shake, FCP

Remaking OZ

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My Sophmore year at UCLA, I actually outlined using, the Annotated Wonderful Wizard of Oz an epic remake of the family classic. Mine actually followed the book much closer incorporating the political undertones and also came with The Quadlings, The Queen of the Field Mice, the Special Glasses that had to be worn in the City of Emeralds and had the Lion becoming the King of Beasts. These were just a few of the small elements of Baum's masterpiece left out of the original 1939 Musical.  Sure the film was a bit more "adultish" but would be a musical and would still be an easy PG film. With a pitch like this, (back then of course,) you have to h
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So the weekend found change. Lots and all for the good. It was as if the low budget filmmaking angel came down from the heavens and said, "ah shit Garrick, we'll let you have this one." A camper and generator were found free of charge. Ryan booked a flight, (arrives Thursday night.) We ended up reacquiring our first lead of choice for Dana out of default and the small things and elements needed have been put on a tight schedule to be taken care of through out the next two weeks. The only thing we did lose and lose big on is our Make Up artist. As horribly sad as it is, (I was looking so forward to working with her,) I almost am relieved beca
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And with a day of minor adjustments and additions to add to my dummy mags and newspapers the Massive Undertaking of finishing enough 'Non Licensed' periodicals to fill my 6ft by 13ft Newspaper stand has come to an end. I'm somewhat excited because I realize when the film is over and the smoke has cleared, because I have made countless references to friends, characters and inside jokes on all these papers, there will be a lot of keepsake material I can give away or who knows, if the film does well, sell on ebay. WINK, WINK. I've story boarded every frame, drawn every concept sketch, character drawing, rendered all my promotional material yada,
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Hey, thanks very much for the :+fav: !
thx 4 da fav
thanks for the fav!
Thanks for the favs! Welcome to DA!