Hey everybody! It’s Cloverman Joe Carlson again, with an announcement of a new video project from 8-Leafer Studios. If you don’t know us, to be honest our group is mainly just some friends helping me art like I gotta art. I just love doing these videos and I love how happy it makes my friends to star in these projects. I have a film degree and very little art related work available in my area, and certain family related reasons keep me where I am, so these videos keep me in the craft I love.
Now that we have the self-promotion out of the way, I’m excited to tell you about our new project. We will be introducing 3 new characters, Nixie the sprite, a yet unnamed character referred to as “wisp” who will be played by Christina Lindquist, and the space-troll Jonathan Crumbonion, who will be played by our very own Eric Blair. Nixie will be played by our first special guest star, noteworthy writer and radio-show host Erika Adams (https://www.elatales.com/). This will be her acting debut and we are so happy to have her helping out with this project. We attempted to bring her character to life before, in a project called “Character Pilot,” but a filming oversight made it our first project to fail. Despite the ups and downs for the character, we can finally introduce her to you in this new project.
In this new short, we will also be expanding on our established universe even further. You won’t recognize this reference without having seen our other videos, but our story will begin in the “Triton Territories.” We haven’t named our universe yet, but our science consultant and actor Jack Schmidt calls it “the Gummiverse” and that’s acceptable for now. These videos always have an experimental element to them, so we will be attempting some stop-animation for the first time, as well as our first “action sequence,” if you consider chases action. I had a lot of fun sculpting the scenes and making the music, but the true joy is when I actually get to sit there with my friends all done up in their goofy costumes. All scenes and backgrounds have been shot successfully, and now there is just a lot of editing ahead of us, but when I say “us” I mean me from this point forward lol so it might be some time until it releases.
This new video is not our endgame, not by a longshot. We hope to assemble our videos into an anthology series we can pitch. The overall premise is still up in the air, but we will keep you posted. Check out this playlist (https://youtu.be/BEnVFwu2Vs0?si=KZ-D5vYq-i26BPC5) like and subscribe, and if you really wanna help out, try donating to our patreon when it gets up and running!
And here it is, the 25 second trailer for our biggest project yet! We hope to see you Halloween when the full video releases!
8-Leafer Studios 