December 6, 2006
HOra HOra HOra
Posted by photocartoonist at 1:04 PM
September 13, 2006
The Queasy Chronicles
Episode 1: Weapons of Mass DNA
What do you call a black and white, animated film noir style spoof on the Bush administration? Is it animated noir? Brilliant? Necessary?
Well, whatever you call it we've got one.
NoEvil Productions just finished "The Queasy Chronicles", a brilliant, necessary, animated noir which involves a Private Dick going after a Public Dick. It all begins with a dame who walks into Queasy's office (doesn't it always?) and so begins a plot of security,risk and fear. It's five minutes of Queasy investigating the powerful Hedges to find out just who's behind the evil plot... Can you guess who?
This pilot episode was created for submition to Comedy Central's "Test Pilots" contest. Wish us luck!
By DEANNA DAHLSAD for noevilproductions
Posted by photocartoonist at 4:13 PM
April 5, 2006
Dick Cheney's Taxi Ride
from huffingtonpost.com
Well we made it to the front page of the huffingtonpost.com! And I can
hear the crackling of the wildfire as it spreads through the blogosphere.
Burn baby burn!
Posted by photocartoonist at 6:20 PM
March 29, 2006
I Swear I Don't Know The Guy
By DEANNA DAHLSAD
Fresh off the success of Brokeback Mountain, Kickback Mountain depicts
the unnatural love (of money) between two men.
Jack and Georgie are a couple of buckaroos with moola to burn on this
camping trip in the mountains. Partners in political corruption, the
two ride roughshod over the very flock that Georgie is supposed to
shepherd. Their dirty deeds of fleecing and midnight cowboy antics are
a far cry from moral confusion; this is sordid business.
Kickback Mountain offers more proof that politicians take (as well as
make) strange bedfellows -- and what's worse, they don't even claim to
remember the names of those they bunk with.
We may not know where the buck stops yet in this troubled love
affair between two cowboys. But we're pretty sure if we stop looking,
we'll all feel more than a little sheepish.
Posted by photocartoonist at 3:13 PM
March 28, 2006
A Torch Song to Unpaid Taxes
By KAT CAVERLY
AtomFilms goes deep into the Heart of Taxes!
Today our short "Audits on my Mind: Deep in the Heart of Taxes"
was showcased as the lead in Atom Film's newsletter, which is seen
by over 1 million subscribers!
Written by me and our NoEvil composer Chris Leap, Audits on My Mind
is a tribute to Willie Nelson's past run-in with the IRS and a spoof of
Bush economics. "...the air is free, for now!"
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:08 PM
March 16, 2006
Do Unto Yourselves
By KAT CAVERLY
I do unto you. You do unto them. They do unto others. It's a three-ring
vicious circus that is on a perpetual worldwide tour. And here come the clowns;
the politicians!
Dressed all up in suits and with all their pretty words, it just boils down to
another tale of vengence. Except the victims have nothing to do with the
previous crimes.
Watch Do Unto Others, a film by Thomas Hudson Reeve and Anders Worm,
featuring music by Chris Leap, all members of Team NoEvil.
Posted by photocartoonist at 6:09 PM
March 9, 2006
Juiceball Goes WAC-O
With MLB opening day just weeks away, isn't it time you were prepared
for what you might see?
We're so in the mood for this festival of Americana, that we'd like to
bring Juiceball back to your attention.
Juiceball is an animated short. It's funny. But since it's satirical
commentary on two All-American pastimes, baseball and fast foods, it
often hits more nerves than homeruns.
If you're the sort of person who finds humor in, well, what is funny --
or if you'd like to make a statement about this bigger-is-better
mentality, you can vote for Juiceball at World Animation Celebration
Online (WAC-O), Animation Magazine's Online Short Film Festival.
We'd hope you'd vote just because it's funny. But we'll accept social
commentary votes as well. After all, a vote is a vote, and we want the
biggest, most super-sized pile of votes we can get.
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:26 PM
January 3, 2006
My Ten Favorite Things of 2005
By KAT CAVERLY
Boy this was a tough choice; I really loved all of our projects. We did some great
music and some wonderful scripts. The voiceover work was top notch and
the animation team out did themselves in 2005.
The photography, the illustrations, the concepts, the work we are in pre-production
on now, all is very exciting. But I made a choice; the top ten. Please take a look at the
rest. I am sure I left out your top ten.
No Evil Productions: The Reel World #1
The Twelve Relatives of Christmas
Which ones are your favorites?
Posted by photocartoonist at 12:01 AM
December 13, 2005
HOra HOra HOra: Is Santa Really Jewish?
Yes Virginia, there really is a Schmanta Klaus!
Did you ever wonder just where Santa Claus came FROM? Sure he lives in
the North Pole now (cheap, non-union labor) but what started it all?
And HO HO HO, what's THAT all about?
Well, thanks to the Internet I was able to track down the big red daddy's origins
and much to my surprise I discovered that Santa is really Jewish! Well that explains the
HO(ra) HO(ra) HO(ra).
The Hora is a folk dance; a dance that is done to the song Hava Nagila.
HOra HOra HOra is an animated original song by Kat Caverly, Peter Forrest, and
Veronica Charnley; animation by Nayan Soni for NoEvil Productions. See it today
on AtomFilms.com.
Posted by photocartoonist at 12:04 AM
July 11, 2005
Juiceball: As American as Baseball, Mom, and McDonald’s Apple Pie
Commentary on Newgrounds.com
There has been an awesome response to Juiceball on Newgrounds.com; lots of love and even some hate. Cool!
We were a little surprised that any offense was taken by what we considered some pretty tame spoofing. Tastes and sensitivities vary, of course, and maybe we could have guessed, but we really see this weighing in as rather gentle irony, not caustic ridicule. We hope that people will appreciate it in the spirit that it is offered.
Humor has always been a good way to bring up a touchy topic, but hitting the funny bone sometimes entails some discomfort.
In this case we are struck by the observation that we Americans are in turmoil over what we put into our bodies, and what we know we shouldn’t put into our bodies. We often tell each other what we should do, but then we have trouble doing so ourselves.
We seem to want the “More-Bigger” even when it could kill us. Why?
Anyway, we thought it was a little funny, and we appreciate the feed back from all of you because it helps us learn. Thanks.
As for you poor humorless souls that detect a slight against the national honor, let me remind you that it is a time honored American tradition to satirize the foibles around us and within us. A democratic republic doesn’t simply permit its citizens to say what they think, it needs them to do so.
So God Bless America, and pass the Pie!
By THOMAS HUDSON REEVE
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:11 PM
July 9, 2005
America's Pass Time
Written and directed by Thomas Hudson Reeve Juiceball is a satirical commentary on the All American pastimes; baseball and fast foods. A whimsical look at the serious issue of performance enhancement drugs in sports, Juiceball gives "super size me" a new meaning.
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:42 PM
July 1, 2005
Please Vote YES for Kung Foo-ey
Click on the Image Above
Scroll down to the fourth row, we are on the end. Your support and encouragement are greatly appreciated. Thank you. Click Here to vote!
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:57 AM
June 23, 2005
These Shoes are made for WOKing
©No Evil Productions 2005
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:13 PM
June 21, 2005
Just how does a discussion with Marcel Marceau
lead to “Kung Foo-ey”?
By DEANNA DAHLSAD
I first met Kat Caverly in 2002, as The Photocartoonist. Meeting her again in 2005, I discovered that she had started No Evil Productions. With this company, she's changed from photographer to animator. It's no small change to go from the one-cell-at-a-time approach of the camera lens focused on the character of a person, to the multiple moving cells of animation with a cast of cartoon characters. But then change isn't anything new for Kat Caverly.
She's studied to be a doctor, a clown, an actress & a mime. She's been a corporate photographer, a Beat poet, a bartender, graphic designer, street photographer, animal handler, and a greeting card designer. And there have been a few other “stops” in between....
While this appears to be the resume of one very confused woman trying to “find her way” it's not. Kat Caverly's work is the sum of its seemingly incongruous parts. But how? And more specifically, just how does a discussion with Marcel Marceau lead to “Kung Foo-ey” starring Quacki Chen the animated duck?
Stay tuned, and find out!
Posted by photocartoonist at 10:32 AM
June 13, 2005
Quacki Chen: A Sweet Duckling
with a Dose of Tangy Pop Culture Chop Sockie Sauce
By DEANNA DAHLSAD
He's the quintessential odd duck, in a fairy tale of epic proportions; traveling on an Eastern path to defend all that is good in this world. And that includes producing children's animation that parents can watch with their children. (Yes, you heard me correctly, you parents will look forward to watching Quacki with your children!)
Quacki's not some one-chop-wonder doomed to repeat the same tired moves; in plots so weak you think you've seen this one before. Quacki is sophisticated. He offers kids the adventure, magic & slapstick fun they're enchanted with, and brings adults the action, humor & retro fun of kung fu films.
Quacki's not some shrine to violence like anime or other animations. Sure, any story with fighting has violence, but Quacki is a student of the Eastern philosophy where teachers' lessons include not just “how to fight” but “when to fight.” And there's something less frightening to children, and myself, when it's animals in the story. Children can understand a weasel wanting to eat a chicken, but how scary to think of people harming other people – scarier still to think of this as entertainment!
There's also something less violent & scary about a webbed foot in general and a webbed foot's a whole lot funnier.
If you've ever watched animated children's shows & wished you were the one who was hit on the head with one of those frying pans, just so you wouldn't have to be annoyed one minute longer... Or if you've ever wanted to take that skillet to the producer's head for daring to call the program “entertainment,” let alone children's entertainment... You await the arrival of Quacki Chen as much as I do.
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:30 AM
June 12, 2005
The Adventures of Quacki Chen
Kung Foo-ey story treatment. Script #001 of the adventures of Quacki Chen.
June 12, 2005
written by Thomas Hudson Reeve © Kat Caverly Enterprises, all rights reserved
Quacki Chen lives on the edge of a farm near the barn at the edge of the meadow on a little lake by the edge of the woods. He nests in a marshy corner of the pond, and lives alone, but he believes that he must have kin somewhere, and hopes someday to find them. He is on good terms with most of the animals on the farm - for he is a decent duck - but he does not quite fit into the life of the barnyard. He stands on the edge of this “village” of beasts, not fully engaged in the ordered world of the fully domesticated. Yet he does not really belong with the wild animals either. Although he knows creatures of the woods, they are hard to make friends with for they can be impulsive, suspicious, forgetful, rude, silly, selfish, and, in short, quite wild.
The closest thing he has to family is the old Swan who lives alone on the far side of the pond. This is Master Wan, a sage Kung-Fooey master, and a mysterious figure to the barnyard animals that fear his magic. For Quacki he is a revered teacher, a mentor, and also an Uncle whose guidance he trusts when others are pulling him this way and that for their own motives.
His toughest problem on the farm is a young rooster named Crow Red Cluck who struts around the yard and loudly proclaims his superiority, saying that it is he who summons the sun each day, so they better treat him with respect. He doesn’t just boss the hens around, he’s rude to the sheep, mean to mice and frogs, and looks down on the pigs. He acts like a friend to the goats, but then tells unflattering stories about them to impress the horses. He treats the cattle like chattel.
As for the lone quiet Quacki, Crow bullies and chides him every chance he gets. He enjoys ridiculing him in front of others, making fun of his blunt beak and webbed feet, and calling him “Soggy Bottom”. It makes Quacki angry, but Master Wan has taught him not to be drawn into fighting, especially with a fluffed up fool like Crow Red Cluck. (Maybe, but it is still hard to leave Crow’s words unanswered).
None the less, things are pretty good for all the animals at the farm until the day that a roving gang of nasty weasels discovered this pleasant prosperous place. These snarling beady-eyed brigands are greedy and violent thieves, and they immediately plot to raid the henhouse and steal the eggs. They wait for night to fall.
When the attack comes it is swift and shocking. Hens that fight back are hurt, the rest are scattered in panic, the eggs are stolen, or just carelessly smashed as the vandalistic weasels wreck the house and spill mayhem out into the yard. Crow Red Cluck comes running up and starts to fight them, but not very well. He loses heart and tries to flee, but there are too many weasels and he is overwhelmed and taken captive along with a couple of hens. Surrounded by his hench-weasels the especially nasty Master Black Weasel Wizard beats up Crow Cluck with his “weasel style” Kung-Fu, and threatens to enslave or kill the chickens.
While this crisis unfolds, a mouse tells a squirrel, the squirrel tells a frog, and the frog hops down to Quacki’s nest and breathlessly reports the calamity unfolding up the hill at the henhouse.
There is no time to cross the water and ask Master Wan what to do, so Quacki must try to help on his own.
Meanwhile, back at the Henhouse, Crow Red, who has been tied up, tells the weasels they are the ones in trouble, for now he will summon the sun to blind their beady little eyes. He crows, but nothing happens. The gang of weasels stops for a moment to see if his magic works, but it doesn’t. He tries again with all his might, but again nothing, and now the weasels just laugh at him.
Master Ming the black Weasel Wizard sneers with contempt at the foolish rooster and executes a lightning fast move that takes the cockscomb and dewlap of the rooster’s head and ties them around his beak, knotting his mouth shut. He then speaks his own magic words and casts a spell that covers the moon with clouds. Instead of getting lighter, it gets darker, and the red weasel eyes glow brighter. The Hench-weasels menacingly close in around the terrified Chickens.
But just in time Quacki bursts onto the scene and smashes into the gang with his Fledgling Flying Duck style Kung-Fooey, breaking their grip on the chickens and sending everyone flying and falling.
He squares up against a ring of weasels and battles them one against five. Crow Red, tied up, hops around trying to get out of the way.
Master Ming the black Weasel Wizard directs his top lieutenants, Snivel and Yellow Tooth to grab the eggs, and take a hen and Crow Red hostage. Preparing to leave he calls out, “Finish him off, send him where I sent his father.’ Then he turns and is gone through the tall grass towards the woods. (There are eight weasels including Master Ming).
The fighting resumes, and it looks bad for Quacki, though he fights well. But just when it appears he is in mortal jeopardy there is a new surprise - A big light shining all over the yard comes on, It could almost be mistaken for the sun itself, but it is followed by the blast of the farmers gun and a commotion of dogs. It is electric light, and together with the shotgun, it sends the weasels scrambling away in fear.
The black Weasel Wizard, hearing the commotion, decides it’s better to change course and head to the edge of the lake.
At the barnyard the dogs are running in circles confused by the frightened animals and the weasel scents crisscrossing in all directions. Quacki pulls himself together and climbs up on the fencepost. With great determination he flies off in pursuit of the weasel wizard.
Down at the lake, Master Wan silently glides into a gentle water landing with hardly a ripple and slides toward the shore. Looking up, he waves his wings in a gesture that pulls the clouds off the moon.
Master Ming and company arrives at the lakeshore. He looks up at the moon and wonders for moment, but shrugs it off and casts a spell that transforms a fallen tree trunk into a boat resting on the shore next to the water. Sniver and Scrafe load the plunder into the boat and push it into the water.
Suddenly Quacki arrives with an ungraceful splash crash nearby in shallows with tall reeds sticking out of the water. He demands that they leave the captives, and be gone.
Yellow Tooth is already in the boat with Crow Red (bound and gagged) and a hysterical hen, drifting out into the water. Snivel, still on the bank, turns and lunges at Quacki, but Master Wan suddenly intercepts him mid-air, spins round and round and releases him like the Olympic hammer throw far out into the lake.
Master Ming the black Weasel Wizard steps forward, “Why it’s old broken master swan, I thought you must be dead, or a coward, how nice to see you, even if you are very rude to my friend. But I shall return the favor”
He casts a spell that transforms the dozen or so reeds around Quacki into snakes that attack him. They wind around him and bite him, and drag him down into the water.
Master Wan begins to go at the Wizard Weasel with his magic power. The two masters, one good, one evil, have powers too equal for one to prevail easily. But Quacki’s distress in the water causes Master Wan to break off the engagement before it can be resolved. He knocks the weasel for a loop, but then goes to help the duck.
Master Ming feels no need to stay and fight, since he sees he has won. Snivel has the plunder, and will rendezvous with him on the other side of the lake.
Master Wan saves Quacki by reversing the spell on the reeds.
They are sitting in the water and Quacki says, “ Master, quick, we must rush out and stop the last weasel in the boat”.
Master Wan explains calmly that they will swim out now, but they needn’t hurry. As they swim, in the moonlight, they can see the silhouette of the boat with the outlines of the chickens and the weasel. Suddenly from above, the streaking shape of Master Hu the Owl swoops down and plucks the weasel right out of the boat with its talons.
As he flies overhead, Master Wan calls up, “Many Thanks Master Hu, I am in your debt!”
“That’s a hoot, Master Wan, Thanks for supper.”
They get to the boat, and it turns back into a log, but they float it back to the shore, and everyone is safe.
The dawn is coming and Master Wan unties Crow Red Cluck and unties his beak, so he can crow in the new day.
written by Thomas Hudson Reeve © Kat Caverly Enterprises, all rights reserved
Posted by photocartoonist at 7:34 PM
June 9, 2005
International Duck of Mystery
Quacki made his debut in 2004 as Smuggly the duckling and due to his popularity Birthdayalarm.com chose him to be their spokesduck!
Take a gander! Coming soon to a monitor near you!
Posted by photocartoonist at 6:42 PM
May 8, 2005
No Evil Productions
We here at No Evil Productions are dedicated to "Bringing JOY into People's Lives"! We are a team of greeting card designers, comics, screenwiters, playwrights, directors, photographers, animators, CG artists, composers, musicians, illustrators, producers and bon vivantes.
Posted by photocartoonist at 12:20 AM
May 5, 2005
The Birthday Zone: Episode 1
Flight X19
Just when you thought it was safe to have another birthday, straight from the zany minds over at No Evil Productions comes a new twist on the sci-fi that is growing older. Writer/director Thomas Hudson Reeve takes on a journey that is surprising as it is funny. Composer Chris Leap reinvents the 1960's genre that would have made Rod Serling smile.
This is just the first in a series promised by producer Kat Caverly who proposed this concept one morning after she didn't get enough sleep. "If dreams were good enough inspiration for the Twilight Zone, they are good enough for us dreamteamsters", claims Ms. Caverly.
Animation: Leslie Rogers, No Evil Productions
Voices: TH Reeve and Denny Bess, No Evil Productions
You've just crossed over into...The Birthday Zone!
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:31 PM
April 20, 2005
Martha at Large
The saga continues....
Second in the series, we flash back to Martha's vow to have her revenge. We also meet her new "apprentices" Nastursium (you can call me Nasty) and Petunia. Whatever this domestic diva has planned we can be assured that she will do it in style.
Posted by photocartoonist at 1:02 AM
August 24, 2004
The Cow-Chicken Dance
Somthing's a FOWL down on the farm!
I saw this cow doll that clucks like a chicken and was totally inspired. Of course, the Cow-Chicken dance; stranger things have been known to really happen.
Gagsplus has some of the funniest gag gifts and pranks on the Internet. It reminds me of when I was 11 years old, collecting Superman comic books and the ads for x-ray glasses on the back pages.
Posted by photocartoonist at 8:35 PM
August 21, 2004
A Star is Borne
Introducing Smuggly the duckling! Multi-lingual, he stars in Feliz Cumpleaños and Happy Birthday
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:44 PM
August 19, 2004
Draw Your Own Conclusions
A Draw features the delightful characters and flights of fancy from screenwriter Thomas Hudson Reeve and producer/director Kat Caverly.
Why? Sometimes there is no better reason than to just bring some JOY into people's lives.
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:36 PM
August 18, 2004
You Always Do the Most Amazing Things
From the pen of Thomas Hudson Reeve, this delightful little animation, Bursting Bubbles takes us to new heights. Produced by No Evil Productions, Kat Caverly producer, music by Chris Leap.
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:45 PM
August 12, 2004
Orange Alert: A Color Commentary
When the going gets strange, the people get a new test of the emergency broadcasting system! During the height of the cold war, when I was a little girl, we used to have emergency drills, in the case of a nuclear threat. As I crouched under my little tubular metal and thin wood desk, even I knew this was no protection.
I'm not sure what I am supposed to do; New York City has been at a heightened state of alert since September 11th, 2001. I guess when all else fails, make fun with it.
Posted by photocartoonist at 10:43 PM
August 8, 2004
I love you Wild Thingie
It's what cats do when you aren't looking...they listen to your old rock and roll records and dress up in your clothes, and dance, dance, dance!
Me-owwww!
Posted by photocartoonist at 9:58 PM
August 5, 2004
The Very, Very Animated Katakismet Design
And now for something really differnent. Really! The animators over at the idea factory Katakismet Design in New York City are equiped with bleeding edge technology and the creative run of the asylum, with all the support they need to make that all important leap of creative faith.
The result? A delightful blend of insight and insanity, creativity and chaos, genius and gumption, fun and funny.
Visit the portfolios of this tiny salon in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. I didn't know you could pack that much talent into such a small space!
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:05 PM
July 28, 2004
Friendship has its Day!
And friendship has its song too! Welcome to Cantina Gusano; a friendly place just south of the e-border! Meet Señor Gusano who greets you with a song and a laugh!
Friendship Day, August 1st...
The first Sunday in August was proclaimed National Friendship Day by the United States Congress in 1935. And where there is a holiday, there is a greeting card! And where there is a friend, there is a toast.
No Evil Productions, a division of Kat Caverly Enterprises, Inc. has produced the first in a series of animations that are set in a sleepy liitle bar named Cantina Gusano. Inspired by her love for Quervo gold tequila when she was a bartender, producer/director Kat Caverly decided to create an Agave worm character named Señor Gusano, which is Spanish for worm. Señor Gusano lives in a tequila bottle and fancies himself to be a Latino Dean Martin. All are welcome and all get a song!
Get more Friendship Day e-greetings and this year remember all of your friends!
Posted by photocartoonist at 10:22 PM | Comments (1)
July 24, 2004
The Cure for the Common eCard
eCardology.com features some of the funniest animated e-greetings on the Internet. Many are offered as part of the new line of premium e-greetings distributed by Birthdayalarm.com.
We're trying to raise the bar on the production of animation for e-cards; producing original music as well as unique new characters and scripts written by an eclectic bunch of playwrights and filmmakers.
eCardology.com plans to produce lines of traditional greeting cards as well as cutting edge comedy. New cards are added every week.
Posted by photocartoonist at 11:02 AM