Status Report

Richard, site owner of RAF, recently posted an update to let fans know that K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant are coming back to answer questions from fans on the forums! The Q&A is going to be working a little differently this time though. Instead of everyone rushing in and overwhelming the duo, Richard is asking posters to send in questions directly to him instead. This will get rid of any well known FAQs, or duplicates that the fans asked last time.

• See the RAF Q&A Thread
• Send your questions to Richard (to pass along to K.A. & Michael)

Also, for any Gone fans out there, there is a separate group on Facebook where Michael Grant has begun answering questions on a weekly basis.

• Go to Gone Group Q&A

Lastly, you can now also follow us on Twitter! Our Twitter account is @hiracdelestnews. Follow us to get the latest updates, like this one, tweeted directly to you! You can also join our Facebook Fan Page to get the same benefit. Everything has been updated on the right side of the blog!

That’s all for now, until next time! 🙂

Bob Lippman, a freelance sculptor, has shared a few pictures of his amazing fan-made sculptures with us. Both him and his 9 year old son are Animorph fans who began reading the series together a little over 2 years ago. The 2 sculptures (one Dak Hamee from HBC, and the other Visser Three, from Visser) are currently work-in-progress projects as a part of his hobby.

However, he wishes to share the progress along with rest of us as they are being made. Below is one snap shot featuring both sculptures. If you click on it, you’ll see more photos in his fan art page, which I’ve added to the site under the Projects section.

Bob hopes to eventually make these for any collectors who may be interested, but more importantly, he wishes to send at least one set to K.A. Applegate as a thanks for making the series.

Amazing work Bob, we look forward to the final product!

This is not Animorphs related, but I thought I’d share it with the fans of the Gone Series by Michael Grant (co-author/co-creator of Animorphs). Here is a promo video released by Egmont for Hunger (Gone #2):

For those that have missed out on Hunger‘s first hardcover release, you can catch its re-release on April 6, 2010 in paperback. Also, in addition to this, Lies (Gone #3) will be released on May 12, 2010. Michael Grant has released the first few pages of it for free online, in collaboration with his son, for a new project that they are working on. You can check it out at getfre.com

Lastly, as a side note, I wanted to add that I’ve slightly changed the right side of the blog. You can now view ‘recent comments’ made on the most discussed blog enteries and go directly to them, rather than scroll through page after page, looking for your topic. 🙂

So I stumbled across this awesome fan-made trailer for an Animorphs movie on Youtube today, and I just had to share it with you guys. I could’ve done without 1 or 2 of the obvious clips, but otherwise it was very well done. Check it out in the video above!

(Shameless Plug: And while you’re at it, if you haven’t seen my Animorphs 300 Trailer video yet, then watch that too! I posted about it a little while back on this blog as well. 😉 )

Also, while we’re still on fan videos, there’s another fan who has made a few videos using the Spore game, where they’ve recreated the battle on the Hork-Bajir Homeworld using their Hork-Bajir, Andalite, and Taxxon models. See it here (unfortunately the embedding is disabled for it, so I’m not able to post the actual video here).

That’s all for now! 🙂

Two Articles have been posted up on eHow by A.M. Trent, “How to Detect a Human Controller” and “How to Detect an Andalite“. I believe these two are going to be part of a series of articles that will be posted on there by her. They’re both amusing and educational, so check ’em out. 😉

I also have another article to share by Enreeco, who is Defending K.A. on “Why the ending of Animorphs was everything it should have been“. Check it out in the Projects section. Both his, and the links to the eHow articles have been posted in there.

Lastly, there is also some new fan fiction by Capnnerefir, who wanted to share us his link for Neomorphs. You can find it on the same page as well.

That’s all for now. If you’ve sent some submissions along my way, don’t worry, I’m going through them as fast I can. Until next time! 🙂

I wanted to give a quick shout out to the Animorphs: A Graphic Novel Project. It’s being drawn by the fabulous Char Reed. So far, everything looks fantastic. I eagerly await her updates whenever she has a new panel to share with us (via Twitter and her Blog), so I thought I’d pass it along to you guys as well.

At the same time, there is also a new project started for an animated series, called Animorphs: A Second Chance. I believe they are looking for artists, editors, voice actors, etc to get going. They have a Youtube account set up, and the project is being lead by Capnnerefir.

Both projects are added in the Projects section (which I randomly decided to re-organize today). All info regarding both projects, including contact info, has been posted up in there. 🙂

From all of us here at Hirac Delest, HAPPY NEW YEAR! 😀