Animal Behavior! 1/1/2018!

CLICK HERE, and save this site!  On 1/1/2018 Elmwood Productions will premiere 

"ANIMAL BEHAVIOR" on Vimeo/VHX!

FINALLY!!!  Yaaaaaaayyyyy!!!

I Believe In Santa

Christmas Eve at The Wooden Beaver!

Last Christmas Wes and Quig got stuck at their bar, The Wooden Beaver...

Click here to see how their nite went...

And when you're done, feel free to check out all of 

"The Risley Brothers" adventures on Vimeo/VHX HERE!

Have Yourself a SCARY Little Christmas!

Today's Mug - Merry Christmas

I only use this one once, maybe twice a year.

It was my grandfather, John Risley's mug.

When I was a kid I used to love looking at this at his house at Christmas, it's one of those things that makes me smile and brings me back to those good times as a kid...

And good times are what we need now.  

So I'm sitting on my couch with a great cup of coffee...  

And John Denver and the Muppets are singing...

Sweet dreams, Ripper

At the Humane Society they had named you Al.

You were definitely an Al. 

But I know you preferred to be called Ripper.

Thanks for being my best bud all these years, Rip!  I'll miss you buddy.

  

 

"Clicks, clacks, riding the backs of giraffes for laughs. S'alright for a while..."

KING TIKI TIKI!!!

Thank you Pam!

2nd year in a row...

Thanks Pam!!!

Prince cookies rock!

Mahna Mahna...

Riverbottom Nightmare Band!!!

This is one of the flicks that put me on the path...

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas

Miss Katie's Imaginary Boyfriend

See More of Miss Katie HERE

A classic...

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Time to start decorating the home!

And Now You're In Love With Miss Katie!

See more of Miss Katie HERE

1/1/18 - Animal Behavior!

So, finally, after, like forever - ANIMAL BEHAVIOR is getting released!

Once it's out I'll write about what took so long to get it out there for the world to see...

But for now I just wanted to share the date!

January 1, 2018!

It'll be complete on Elmwood's Vimeo/VHX page!

This is a project close to my heart, and that may be why it's taken almost as long as "Chinese Democracy" did to create! Hahaha...  

Can't wait for you to see it!

Thankful...

I was with my dad last week and we started talking about the holidays.

And he said he hopes I had good one's as a kid.

And to be honest, I only can think of smiles, and love.

We didn't always have it easy, and there was always some sort of stress from illness in my family...

But we would rise above it, at least for the holidays.

And they were wonderful.

I'm thankful for that, and for the wonderful friends and family I am surrounded by now.

Thank you.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Was thinking today...

This life... It's good.

B&W Day 7

B&W Day 6

B&W Day 5

B&W Day 4

Portal 503 - L'eclipse Nue

 http://www.leclipsenue.com/

Look for more L'eclipse Nue and Elmwood Productions team up in 2018!

B&W Day 3

The Answer Is Yes...

 

 So the puppets for HEAD were built in a hurry...

We decided a little under two months of shooting to do the film with puppets.

I had ideas for the look of each character.

For example, I'e keep it no secret that the character of Bruce is intentionally designed to look like Ash from "Evil Dead".

But one puppet that never really got analyzed by anyone was Vicki.

Originally I wanted the puppet to be a cross between Velma from Scooby Do and Kim Basinger.

But that wasn't working.  

So three years after the flick is done two people recently asked if Vicki was intentionally designed to look like Francesca from "Mad Monster Party"

And she is!  Just a little less busty, hahaha...  

I didn't want her to look exactly like Francesca, just a little...  Like a long lost relative, or something.

 I'm a huge Rankin/Bass fan.  And love "Mad Monster Party".  

Wanted to throw a little tribute into HEAD.  I've been found out!  Hahahaha...

And don't forget to check out HEAD on VHX now!

B&W - Day 2

B&W - Day One

I got "challenged" on Facebook by my wife's cousin Kara to do this thing that's been floating around FB for a few weeks where you post a black and white photo with no humans in it.

Looks like this:

Seven days. 
Seven B&W photos of my life. 
No People. No explanation. Challenge someone new every day.
Day seven, photo seven 
Challenge: Jon Bristol

So...  I'm doing it.  But posting the pics here!

Here's the first one, but instead of challenging anyone, I'll leave it up to you if you want to do it!

Happy Halloween!

Evil Doll

Hand Puppet from "Christmas Wishes"

We had a lot of fun making this short...  Look for it soon!

Here's some making of pics..

 

 It started with a store bought doll, just cut opened and gutted! 

 

Then I pulled some of the armature wire it came with out and made a mouth and eyes.  Added some classic yarn hair, and a little weird dress!

 

And she's ready to kill!