Cartoon Network


In which superchick makes a trip to see the toon factory.


Columbia set up an opportunity for us to play 2 songs on the cartoon network. There's a concert series on Friday, where they feature live music and being a fan, I was amped to be there. They placed us in a garage set (we couldn't have asked for a more appropriate location) and decorated it around us. It was a lot of fun for us and I love sharing airtime with batman, powerpuff girls or the justice league. The studios at turner are amazing and the only way I could capture what we experienced when we walked in there was to make a panorama. With some help from my buddy Tim who ironically works at dreamworks, we've got it up here:

http://www.tollinc.com/max/

It's a little slow to load since it's a big image, but it's worth it. Use your mouse to scroll around and you can see how they have one central area for cameras and audience and then sets surrounding it like petals of a flower. I wish I'd shot up too, since there was a giant lighting grid above us. I managed to catch the director of the show in a cameo, he's the distinguished looking gentleman holding the coffee. It's my first 360 panorama, thanks to steven and tim for helping me work it out. The software I used to stitch it together is called PTGUI and it's very intuitive.

The kids were great, having been primed by the stage manager and here's a little secret; when you see people waving signs in the audience, most of the time, the signs are handed out and created by the studio interns. Ours was no exception and I appreciated the messages someone had taken the trouble to write out: "matt is phat", "dave behave" and the one that made us all blow milk out of our noses when held up by an 8 year old girl: "max, you're my world."

you can see us in action oct 20th at 7 EST on the cartoon network.

Posted: Mon - September 18, 2006 at 02:50 PM          

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