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Greetings True Believers!

We sure had a busy week at Hero Heights! My cohort Bill Ho and I have been hard at work making sure Hero Heights is the best animated short we can make! Last Thursday I had the pleasure of directing the voice recording session, and it was fantastic! Above is a snapshot of our cast. In the front row from left to right is Bill Ho, Jessica DiCicco (Smart Alec), Karen Malina White (Mindy 500), Annie Mumolo (Strikeout), Hynden Walch (Olympia) and Becky Thyre (Electrisha). And as the entire back row you have myelf Raul Aguirre. One thing that Bill and I noticed is that female voice actresses are very tiny. I mean I’m a big guy as it is, but around our cast I felt like Gandalf among the Hobbits. I’d also like to take this moment to thank our awesome Casting Supervisor Meredith Layne. She did [Read more…]

Greetings True Believers!

There’s been alot of doin’s a transpirin’ here at Hero Heights central over the past week. But first things first. The image above is a watercolor painting I spent a couple of days on. This piece marks the first time the cast of Hero Heights has been colored! The reason I painted it was for the Oh Yeah gallery. The “Don” of the Oh Yeah Family Fred Seibert wants a piece of artwork from every creator to hang on the walls at the studio. So there you have it. I had a great time painting it! I’ve had the idea to paint it since last summer when I spent a month travelling Europe, where I got to see Michelangelo’s Creation Of Man from the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I thought to myself, “Self, how can you take this brilliant world famous masterpiece of fine Renaissance art and [Read more…]