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It's not even 1AM yet

 

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There's a prison that's gone but the fear lives on...

 

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I don't want to go to bed yet.

 

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Now it's 1AM...

 

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10. Could you talk a bit about Chadam? Who is he and in which twisted corner of your brain was he born? How long were you in labor? What does he do for fun?
Chadam’s overrun my life for, ****, over 2 years now I think. The creation of Chadam was a weird birth, it was a backwards birth. I created the idea of his future before he was even conceived. I created Chadam for the band The Used when we were coming up with visual concepts for their album “Lies for the Liars” which I art directed. We knew we wanted to create a character that we can also expand and give life to beyond the music and visual sides, but we didn’t really have any concept beyond that. So I created Chadam, and since that initial sketch, every aspect of his life has kind of manifested itself step by step, aside from the general origin and world that he lives in. It’s like, “oh, he needs a friend? Ok, well, he’s friends with an 8 year old girl with a pumpkin head and vine-hair, and she has a hand puppet named Manda.” Then more and more of his mythology would work around that idea of constantly using my imagination to continue to build off of the small amounts of foundation that we gave ourselves. And for fun…he cries. His head hurts a lot.

 

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11. What was the process of making the real life Chadam costume? What are the materials you used? How long did it take?
It was a long but awesome process. I worked with a movie effects company called Monster Effects, in LA, and because Chadam and the other characters had such weird huge heads and unique shapes, it was all trial and error. The masks are all rubber latex (with some fur and plastic parts), but because they are so big, the first Chadam mask weighed like 80 pounds! We had to build a whole support system for it, it was silly looking. So it was a trial and error process, but we worked on getting them right for like 4 or 5 months.

 

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12. Could you talk a bit about the Chadam movie that you’ve been working on with Warner Bros.? When will we see a trailer?
It’s being kept under wraps as far as the story and stuff for the most part, but I have been working on it with HD Films and WB for over a year. What I CAN tell you, is that it’s going to actually be 10 different 5 minute episodes that altogether form a 50 minute, fully CG animated movie. We are using the Unreal Engine for a lot of the creation and execution, which is something that is normally used for video games like Bioshock and Gears of war. It’s looking beautiful, we have a lot of talented teams of people working on it, like Exigent, House of Moves, Epic, The Engine Room, Jon Wayshak helped with the storyboards, Dave Corriea helped with concept art, Adam Peterson helped me write the story, etc. It’s a dark drama-horror-fantasy-coming of age movie! We crossed a lot of genres but that’s just naturally how Chadam’s story and his world fell together. We are actually showing the first ever glimpse at the Chadam show next week at the San Diego Comic Con. I’m really nervous because almost no one except us that are close to the project has been allowed to see it but I’m pretty sure they will dig it. Also, there’s gonna be a cool announcement about it too. We got some pretty insanely awesome voice talent for it.

 

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19. Speaking of music, how did you get involved with The Used and various other album art projects? Does the music influence what you create? If so, could you give examples?
I got involved with the Used by a friend of Quinn (the guitarist of The Used) showing the band my art online. At the time I had a small website and I was practically homeless, selling 5 or 6 paintings a day on ebay for 10 – 20 bucks a piece. I had just got my first real comics job working on OJO with Sam Kieth, and The Used just basically called me up and the next day I was working for them. It was pretty surreal. Most of the jobs, with the exception of The Used, I have to start working on them long before the music is done, so it’s hard to draw direct influence, but I have a strict thing that I have to work directly with the band, as opposed to a label or a manager. So we form a good relationship and talk about stuff a lot so the concepts and ideas stem from just ********ting with the bands and being friends. I think it’s better that way. With The Used it’s been a little different because I got the chance to actually just throw myself into the whole project and sit with them in the studio and live with them while they were creating the music so yah, that had a heavy influence.

 

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I'm bored.

 

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This song is cool.

 

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