Post HSM release notes +

Thanks to everyone who has purchased the film! I put together a group of people comments/mini reviews that you can read here- I removed the names but I'm sure some of you will see your wordS there ^_^

You can head over and rate/review the film on imdb here. Having more ratings and reviews should help future viewers/potential buyers...

If you bought the film and want it to try and get it accepted at a film festival/event of your choice you can burn the film to DVD or whatever and submit the film yourself... just say you're an associate producer or something ^ ^ If it gets accepted contact me for an exhibition copy...

I sent press releases to twelve or so major animation/film/cg/pop culture/sites/blogs and two replied... one to tell me that they have a new program where people submitting "news" items pay to have them published on the site... and another replied to tell me my animation didn't fit in with their "animation" site...

I'll keep sending them out/editing them to try to make them better... but it seems as usual its about who you know....

I started a thread for the release of HSM in the "General Discussion" area of Cgsociety where there are a few active indie film release threads... but the thread got moved to the deserted "finished animation" section with no reason given ... one of the old moderators that is still there banned me in 2006 for talking shit to one of those talentless brothers who directed the horrendous "Alien vs. Predator 2" and the recent shitfest "Skyline"... He tried to insult me for being a pitiful After Effects user and I told him to "Kneel before Zodd!" but yeh the moderator banned me to help his friend out and I bet the poor sap is still holding a grudge because I won't die... and neither will my films.. I'll keep making them better and better ^_^

But yeh whatever... I'll keep doing my best to promote the film however I can but I also realize since my stuff is actually new and unlike anything else out there its going to take a long time for it to reach its real potential... it might take another 10 - 15 years of me making films every two years...

Now is the time where you really get stretched thin as a one man army filmmaker and you have to make a choice... spend the next year+  promoting your current film or get to work on the next one... Now if HSM hadn't gone a year over schedule I would feel more like promoting it BUT since the release was long overdue I really want to get started on something new... I can use my same computers so I don't need to buy anything new... just need to erase all the hard drives...

So yeh its awesome to know after all this hard work lots of you think HSM is a "masterpiece" and this great thing ^_^ Yet I know most people will only see it as random nonsense or as one Ray William Johnson fan commented on youtube "nonsense hallucinations"... So do I spend time and energy trying to convince people that it is not nonsense and worth their time/money? Or do I just keep walking down the deserted strange path making films?

So should I stop and promote? Or keep moving and make another film? Or maybe both? Work on the new film full time but spend 1 hour each today doing something to promote HSM? Let me know what you think I should do!

438 people have bought HSM as of right now so there's not enough money to make DVD's/Blu-ray unless some miracle happens... I burned a test Blu-ray today and tested it on a Ps3 hooked up to a plasma tv and it looked AWESOME was so clean... but would have to sell around 3,500 more downloads to pay for a DVD/Blu-ray release so that might never happen...

If you have any thoughts/ideas on all this stuff please post them in the comments!






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