Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Brown Paper Bag (New animated Testosteroso music video)


Brown Paper Bag (New animated Testosteroso music video)

We are almost done with our new upcoming full length. We will be posting updates on our facebook as soon as it becomes available (Click here for updates!!!). We've been working on it for the past year since the time we first released the "Spit-roast e.p.".

"Kick you in the Vagina" "Mail Order Bride" "TESTOSTEROSO Theme" and "Robo-Sexual" will appear on it, as well as some new songs. It will be on sale at http://www.testosteroso.com. One of the new tracks is called "Brown paper bag". It is also our new animated music video. It's kind of a country tune that confronts a very important, and difficult situation to overcome. What do you do when you bring home a really ugly girl/guy from a bar because you were too drunk to realize that they had the face of a farm animal. Well,Testosteroso has the solution.

A face only a mother could love. Or a desperate, horny, drunk dude.

 This video is done in toon boom studio, along with adobe after effects, and photoshop. We hope to have it ready by the end of the summer.  It's animation style is similar to  ren and stimpy, but obviously  not nearly as good. I'm still new to animating, so this is a great learning experience for me. The advancements in technology have made it so easy to make a cartoon, a child can do it.

(Frank Mowery, Mandi Malfunction, Alex Beisker.)




Considering this is an animated video, I can put whoever the hell in it I want to. Unlike real actors, animated characters are reliable, and you can make them do whatever you want. I decided to put some of my friends in Brown paper bag as extras, also I really wanted to draw them anyway, so this was a good excuse. I've only created one other animated video with Toon Boom so far. It was a very short promo for our facebook.
 
It's not the most impressive animation, but It's a start. I did this to learn the basic functions of Toon Boom Studio. Brown paper bag is definitely going to be more advanced as far as animation goes, because I'm spending a lot more time on it.  For more updates on this video, please check our facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/testosteroso.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Testo T-shirts

Hey kids!!! Do you like Testosteroso? You don't? Well buy our shit anyway! That's right, Testosteroso merchandise!!! Some people might say "Don't you have to be successful first, and then sell out? Well the answer to that question would have to be "Shut the fuck up and buy our shit!" Just kidding of course, but seriously buy our shit.
Right now we only have two main designs. The first is a girls shirt with our character sex pig on it. 




The second is a mens shirt with our character Robo-sexual on it.


We're also gonna have a third design with the Testosteroso logo. These shirts should be available in the next couple weeks at http://www.testosteroso.com
I'm not sure how much they will cost yet. We are having them made through reverbnation (http://www.reverbnation.com/testosteroso.)
 They basically do all the shipping and production, all we have to do is design them. It's pretty sweet, except we don't make too much off the deal. Oh well. If you are interested in picking one up check http://www.testosteroso.com for details, or find us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/testosteroso

Also....Keep your eyes peeled for some new exciting Testosteroso products.....




Sunday, May 8, 2011

Testo theme 70's Cartoon

Codan the Barbarian

Here are some screenshots from the new animated short we are currently working on. We're basically remaking the Testo theme video   as if it were an action cartoon from the 70's. Kinda like Thunder cats, G.I. Joe or He-man. Above is a picture of Col. Thunder-cock (left) And Codan the barbarian (right). Codan is kinda based off of He-man.

Legolias on his mighty flying dragon
The animations were done in Toon boom animate. I either rotoscoped the original video we made, or old episodes of G.I. Joe. The backgrounds were made in  adobe photoshop.
For right now I'm only animating an opening credit sequence. If it comes out good, I might actually write an episode just for the hell of it (Although I doubt it, because animating this shit is extremely tedious) The plus side to animating in this style is, to truly mimic the cartoons of the 70's you have to cut corners. Which makes it a little bit easier. 



Col. Thunder-Cock
Col thunder-cock is the lead henchman. He's some kind of space rooster I guess.
 

Thunder-cock and BI-polar bear







Bi-polar bear is either a "Bi" polar bear, or a Bipolar bear, I haven't decided yet. He has a short circuit in his brain which causes him to switch personalities  from a highly intelligent mastermind criminal, to an  unintelligible broken robot.

Dr. Kaporkian is the mad scientist who created thunder-cock and Bi-polar bear in order to stop Testosteroso from thwarting his diabolical scheme, to change all the village woman into his piggy sex slaves.



 I hope to have the video done in the next couple weeks, but I've been getting extremely frustrated making it, which causes me to take a lot of breaks from animating. I wish I could afford a Korean animation studio. I basically stay up till 5am, drink a shit ton of caffeine, and smoke a pack of cigarettes every time I work on this cartoon. I don't know how the fuck real animators do this shit on a daily basis.