Episode 2 begins

Episode 2 has begun production!

Episode 2

Episode 2 storyboarding begins this week. Production starts this weekend. The next installment will focus on an event that happened to me while working in Valet at a Beverly Hills Hotel.

Stay tuned! You will not want to miss this one!

Cheers!
Jordan

IT'S FINISHED!!!! EPISODE ONE IS RELEASED BELOW!

2 months of animating (mostly on weekends). I used Flash CS5.5, Sony Vegas, my animation degree, and Vocalive app for the iphone.

Enjoy!

More to come!

Jordan

Progress!

A lot of progress has been made today on Episode 1. Really, really close to finish!

3-4 more minor scenes left to animate and then another smooth pass and Done. Stay tuned!

Cheers!

Jordan

Almost finished...

The end of production on Episode 1 is almost visible. Working on the last major scene (which is technically a lot of little scenes).

In the short rows. Already have the idea for Episode 2. Stay tuned!

Cheers!

Jordan

Half way point

Well... it is getting closer I suppose. My audio maxed out at 3 minutes 55 seconds. I have currently animated 1 minute and 56 seconds. So yeah....its getting there. Half way point for the first episode.

As with any project you have up's and down's, doubts and excitement but its been fun so far.

I hope it turns out good and can convey everything that I want to express with it.

Cheers!

episode one title change

Episode One:

The storyboards are drawn for the first ever episode of "It Came From RET-HELL!"

<---- There's the title card "Attack of the Bleep-Holes!"


Production begins tomorrow... not sure how long it will take. Hoping for no more than 3 weeks.

Cheers!
Jordan

Intro FINISHED! :)

The introduction sequence is FINISHED for my web series "It Came From RET-HELL!"

Flash CS5.5 and After Effects 6.5 used.


{Check it out below}

Cheers!
Jordan

Intro Sequence complete soon

I am almost done with the intro sequence for "It Came From RET-HELL!"

It is coming along really well. The last bit I have to do is the elaborate title card animation. Hope to post the results soon!

Cheers!
Jordan

update

I have been getting some scenes knocked out recently and some characters created. I am still working on the introduction sequence. Here are some stills....










Some added characters as well....

scene 2

I've made it to scene 2 in the opening intro segment of "It Came from RET-HELL!"

This is soooo much fun! :)


Stay tuned for more progress....

Cheers!

Jordan

some characters

Starting to work on some characters for the series introduction of "It Came from RET-HELL!" Three so far.... a lot more to come.




Also, I started to animate the first scene of the introduction. Below is a screen clip.


Cheers!
Jordan

designs for web series

I have begun development on my new web series "It Came from Ret-hell!" based on the cartoons I created from "My Life as a Servant to Humanity". Using my animation degree background (which was mainly 3D based) I shall dive into the 2D world of Flash. My 4 years of Retail experiences full the inspiration for this project and will keep it going. I shall start with the series intro sequence first, which I have already storyboarded out.



Already designed the background for the exterior of one of the stores. "Tech Palace", "Paper Clips", "Beverly Hills Hotel", and "Theme Park World" shall represent the different Retail environments that I have worked in.

Updates

Yup...it's been a while. A lot has changed since I last posted. I got a new job outside of Retail in the Visual field a few months ago! Even though this means I will not be coming into contact with angry, rude customers anymore does not mean I am stopping this blog.

I am actually turning these little short cartoons into an animated web series using Flash. So stay tuned!


Jordan

My angel can't use an ipod!

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Seriously. This woman totally talked bad about people wearing glasses referring to them as "the other kids" and saying how her "angel" will never have to wear glasses..... as I stand NEXT TO HER WEARING GLASSES!!! lol. WTF??? Seriously. Hello??

Jordan

Work for IBM.

Every time I tried to help this customer they would refer to working at IBM. Yet they wanted our cheapest laptop....times must really be that bad .... lol

Jordan

Returning an item....

This happens to my co-worker Jaime all the time. People want to return things thinking that we must be stupid and not think to check their boxes. Then they act angry when we call them on it.

Jordan

But I have money....

I get this a lot.

Jordan

Virus Exorcist

I think my co-worker Michael I. and I talked about this a while ago. Virus Exorcist.

Jordan

What are maps?

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My co-worker Michael had this happen to him last night. "What are maps?" well sir for a GPS....maps are EVERYTHING. lol.

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Ah the things I see....

Witnessed this happen the other day at the store.

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That's ok...I'll carry your heavy printer...

I think its awesome that strong customers do not even offer to help carry their huge printer box up to the front of the store. Where are all the gentlemen customers at?

Jordan

Don't ask twice if you do not want to hear answer twice

Customer came in a while back and asked me what was the difference between two GPS units. The only difference in this case was the screen size. The customer then asked me again the same question so I responded innocently with the same exact answer. The customer then lectured me about how it was wrong to insult my customers by repeating stuff twice... after he was the one who asked the question twice?!?!?!?!?!!

Jordan

Rip you a new....

Customer incident that happened to my co-worker Matt tonight. Guy who bought a $69 TV a month ago is angry because its a cheap piece of crap. Fun times. bahahahaha! Rip you a new asshole...how creative this customer was with his threats.

This brings up the finer point of how exactly does one rip a new asshole? lol.

Jordan

"The Creepy Kiss" (animated)

Ah Flash its been too long. Quickly animated "The Creepy Kiss" using Flash. Its pretty rough. Took me about 30 minutes or so. More refined stuff to come in the future. Based off of previous cartoon about the creepy customer who blew me a kiss.... (throw up in mouth).

Jordan

Oldie but goodie...

Found this on my old hard drive... I did this sketch in 2008 when I worked at Staples in Burbank, CA during back to school time!! That's a real image I took of our store in the background. The line for check out went all the way to the back of the store. Ah... the early days of retail.... I was sooo innocent...lol

I got so tired of pointing to where stuff was by the end of the night.


Jordan

Give me my keys!

I reached back into my memories of customer horror stories and found an incident that happened to me 2 years ago when I worked at a Beverly Hills Hotel in valet.

It was 2am and I was about to head out for the night when a drunk customer came up to my stand and demanded his car keys and for his car to be brought up for him. I informed him that we could not do that because he was drunk and we would even give him a hotel room at a pro-rated rate for the night. He was angry and called the LAPD. Silly customer.


Jordan

Do you work in the electronics department???

Working in an electronics store I get this a lot. "Do you work in the electronics department?"...."Why yes sir considering the whole store is nothing but electronics!"

Jordan

You there! Read this for me!

Customer incident that happened to my co-worker Stephanie today. Customer made her read the back of a coffee bag because they left their glasses in the car. lol. I had two different drawings for this incident. Strangeness!!

I thought the fact that a customer would almost expect an associate to gauge out their own eyes to let them use because their glasses were in the car was appropriately realistic. lol.

Jordan

Creepy customer blows kiss.....yuck

Creepy old customer blew a kiss at me..... @&!@*!&@(!!!!!!! yuck. yuck. yuck. (throw up in mouth, vomit on the floor.....etc)

yuck. (shutter throw up some more...)

Jordan

welcome to my home

It is funny how some "pineapple" customers act like you are walking into their "territory" when they walk into your store. It's like a customer walking into your home and they get angry because you greet them? Hello? You came onto my turf, do not act angry or surprised when I greet you.

Jordan

hunting prey...I mean...greeting customers

This is what it feels like to be a sales associate greeting customers. Customers are like antelope, if they see you approach they will run. There is a technique in greeting customers and it involves being as creative and stealthy as possible.

Remember they are on your turf and you know the shortcuts.

"Customers are skittish creatures!"


Jordan

I do not talk politics

I find it interesting when customers find the need to speak to me for 30 minutes about politics. I am neutral in the whole subject of politics. I think politics is nothing but arguing back and forth and honestly I'm an easy going person and like to avoid that sort of thing. lol. I have my views but I like to keep them to myself. This guy was in the market for a new printer but felt the need to release his views on politics to me, who just wanted to do my job and sell him a printer. Is that too much to ask?

Jordan

Talk to my lawyer

Here is my co-worker Sandra's customer episode that happened the other day. Guy comes in trying to return a portable DVD player. Sandra informs him that we have to test it first to make sure it still works. The customer gets angry claiming that "you can't do that without my lawyer present" and saying stuff like "I can't talk to you without my lawyer." hahahahaha epic!

silly customers! :)

Jordan

You people? You people?

Customer came up to me and asked, "Do you people fix printers?"....you people? you people? what is that? He said it like we were a different breed of human...

-Jordan

Retail Zombie

What Customers envision Salespeople as.


Jordan

Strange conversation while applying for Credit

In my journies as a Retail Servant I get a lot of talkers. I do not mind talking with most of them, but it is the rare few that provide too much information and go off on tangents that makes it hard to endure.

This happened to me as I was going through the credit application process with a couple. I have to ask all these questions regarding their personal information and some go off on tangents....

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this is not a register.

This happened to my co-worker Stephanie. Customer walks up starts setting quarters on
the security desk then asks, "Wow. What are you doing here?" ??????

Stephanie then informs that she can not pay there because it is not a register and that it why it is located strangely.

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My Ancestor in the Caveman Era...

Continuation of the "My Ancestor" series.

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3D Glasses fail....

Customer occurrence that happened to my co-worker Carolyn while selling TV's. Guy kept wiggling the 3D glasses trying to get it to "work".

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"Where are all the plugs?!?!?!"

I witnessed/was asked the greatest thing I have ever heard in my 4 years of Retail yesterday. This lady with her kid comes up to me and is trying to locate an extension cord or "plugs" that her son could play with. Meanwhile, her demon son is going freaking crazy... I end up showing her the surge protectors which she is pleased that we have. She gives it to her son who starts playing with it. Later... he runs around the store shouting, "Where are the plugs?!?!?" while the mother tries to lie to him that "we do not have plugs." hahahaha.... an electronic store without plugs, this kid is not stupid!







It was definitely a "you had to be there" type happening to really truly appreciate it. lol.

Jordan.