Turns out that Michael Grant (co-creator and author of Animorphs) has been in touch with Stephen King lately, and has gotten him hooked onto Michael’s new series: ‘GONE’. Stephen King read the first book, as well as an advanced copy of the unreleased second book ‘Hunger’, and this is what he wrote about the series to Michael’s editor:
I’ve been corresponding with your “Michael Grant” about his Gone books. More important, I’ve been reading the Gone books–the first and Hunger, the follow-up. These are exciting, high-tension stories told in a driving, torrential narrative that never lets up. There are monsters, there are kids with mad-crazy super powers, there’s the mystery of where all the adults went. Most of all, there are children I can believe in and root for. This is great fiction.
If you want to quote any or all of that, be my guest. I love these books.
I’ve also updated the Articles section with this as well. It is posted here, under Fanbase.
UPDATE: The people involved with the musical have informed me that the performance from their last show has indeed been taped, and will be coming online soon enough. I’ll post it here once it does.
I would’ve given a bit more of a heads up on this, except that I’m only finding out about this now. I stumbled upon a group of Animorph drama fans on Facebook who have apparently made their own musical for the series! The musical is at an Off-Broadway Theater as a part of the Yale Drama Coalition. Here are the show times:
February 26th 2009, 8:00 pm
February 27th 2009, 8:00 pm
February 28th 2009, 2:00 pm
February 28th 2009, 6:00 pm
Click here for more information on the show, for those that live close enough to attend. If anyone happens to get a recording of this, then let me know, and I’ll put it up on the site as well.
I’ve added in a Book Clubs page for the Merchandise section. You’ll see images in there for the Animorphs Alliance book club that Scholastic used to run many years ago. Thanks to MSGohan for providing the pictures of the gifts, and Michael for providing a scan for the Alliance Poster. The poster has also been added in the Posters page, along with another poster from Megamorphs #2.
Lastly, the I’ve changed the look up a bit in the Merchandise section. Hopefully it looks a bit more presentable now.
That’s all for now. As always, if you all have something to share, then just get a hold of me as your normally do. Until next time. 🙂
I’ve uploaded a new video of K.A Applegate, where she talks about one of her newer books ‘Home of the Brave’, which she wrote after Animorphs. This is the second video that K.A. has made an appearance in. (The first one was an Animorphs Webcast, in case you missed it).
I’ve also re-organized the videos section. I wasn’t liking how it was set up. The new layout will also hopefully look the same on both Firefox and IE.
Lastly, I went around and changed a few things here and there on the Database and Downloads section. I’ve also given their subsections their own header pages so that it’s easier for you to link those specific sections of the site to others directly now. (ex. Music, Videos, Articles, etc). I did this mainly so that it avoids confusion amongst newer visitors. The headers link everything back to the main site, making it easier to navigate.
I thought I’d highlight a quick update today with an amazing new Animorphs drawing submitted by an artist named MangoShell. I absolutely love this illustration, it’s very professionally drawn, so I just had to share it with all of you as well. Her drawing is now also posted in the Fan Art section.
On another note, it turns out that the foreign wallpapers in the downloads section were Spanish, not German. I don’t speak either, so thanks to Lector for correcting that mistake. 🙂
I got a very interesting email today. According to a source (that wishes to remain unnamed), there may be a slight chance of Scholastic planning to relaunch Animorphs.
So what does this mean exactly? Absolutely nothing at the moment. Consider it as a rumor for now. Rumors, especially those revolving around to the relaunch of the Animorphs series, are nothing new. They can date all the way back from the day the series ended. Most of them are just topics of wishful discussions amongst fans. However, you never know how these things can go, so I am posting about this just in case.
No official announcements of any kind have been made by Scholastic yet either. I will keep you all updated if there are any further details to add on this matter.
Hello all. There’s a new song called “Private Offender” from the TV show that is now posted in the Music & Soundtracks page. As always, you can listen to it streamed or download it directly to your computer.
For fan submissions, we have 2 Memorable Quotes, thanks to Cassie and JRTCMA. We also have a new Animorphs Fan Trailer from Visser2Azula, as well as my 2 previous videos (Animorphs 300 and Animorphs Animated) which have now been added to my video page too.
Lastly, I’ve fixed up the layout of the Projects section, as well as all of the individual pages for Fan Art and Fan Fiction. They include a new disclaimer at the end of every one of those pages now.
For any more submissions, please get a hold of me as you normally do.
This was created for my Flash Graphics class a little while back. It’s the first time I’ve used Flash to make any sort of animation, so obviously I chose Animorphs as my first project to inspire me.
This little short is purposely done in black & white. The style was inspired by several other fandoms, such as Frank Miller’s artwork from ‘Sin City’ and the simplistic figures from Pixar’s ‘Incredibles’ credit shorts.
I know that many Animorph fans often wondered what Animorphs would be like as a cartoon, which is why I made this 3 minute animation as a sort of promo trailer in my mind, something that MIGHT be submitted, someday, to be pitched for an actual Animorphs animated show. Of course, this is purely a fan project (which I got course credit for making), so I’m just glad I got the opportunity to finally work on it. It’s something that I’ve been itching to make for a while now.
So please sit down, enjoy, and comment below to let me know what you think!
Turns out that Michael Grant (co-creator and author of Animorphs) has been in touch with Stephen King lately, and has gotten him hooked onto Michael’s new series: ‘GONE’. Stephen King read the first book, as well as an advanced copy of the unreleased second book ‘Hunger’, and this is what he wrote about the series to Michael’s editor:
