Thursday, March 26, 2009

Dungeons and Dragons : Tips, Tricks and Secrets!

Hi Guys,
Here's a new video that Rob and I did about the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons:



Cheers,
Travis Gordon
www.spellfury.com

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Dragonslayer


Hi guys, been doing a lot of research into all things fantasy lately (For our show SPELLFURY) and came across "Dragonslayer" a movie that came out in 1981.
I had somehow missed this film and people on twitter were saying it was awesome. I finally found myself a copy and rather enjoyed it. The film is about a young apprentice who has to kill a dragon to save a town. The Dragon VFX were very well done for the time and I would say the battle between the humans and the dragon is the best human vs. dragon fight ever done.
It stars Peter MacNicol and Caitlin Clarke and they both did a great acting job. After checking out the film I visited IMDB and found out that Caitlin had passed away, a lady on twitter (Jessica Trovato) had grown up with her and told me "she was even more awesome in person. She was unphased by stardom which made her so wonderful."
I highly recommend this film and I will be buying it on DVD shortly.

Cheers,
Travis Gordon
http://www.spellfury.com
spellfury@gmail.com

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Piers Anthony!


Hi Guys,
Was rereading some fantasy novels from my collection (Golem in the Gears, Vale of the Vole) and did a Google search for "Piers Anthony" (Writer of the awesome Xanth Series 34 novels and growing).
At 74 he's written some amazing books and has an EXCELLENT newsletter about the process of writing and editing your own work:
http://www.hipiers.com/newsletter.html

I also sent him this e-mail:

Hi Piers,
Love your work!
Just finished reading your newsletter Feblueberry 2009 it was great, I'm a film maker but I find it's the same creative process as writing a book.
Your diamond in the rough metaphor was excellent, I spent 6 years working on a feature length film that ended up with a rough draft edit of 6 hours!!!
But SLOWLY bit by bit i have it down to 1 hour and 45 minutes and am currently sending it off to Festivals.
Lately I've been writing/directing/producing online web shows, recently I've been working on a Fantasy Action web series and would ABSOLUTELY LOVE your opinion of it!
http://www.spellfury.com

A HUGE fan,

Travis Gordon
www.spellfury.com

HE RESPONDED!!!

Thank you for your note. We have printed it for Piers Anthony and he gave us the following answer for you:
I'm on dialup. It took 15 minutes just to get your site loaded, and more time to get any images. But it does look like fun. I was Visitor #5235.

Piers Anthony
www.HiPiers.com

It's great he took the time to go to my site, nice to be in communication with a writing LEGEND!!!

Monday, March 9, 2009

SPELLFURY 3 is DONE! Yes! Woot! Whew!

SPELLFURY 3 is DONE! Yes! Woot! Whew!
It took a long time to do all the VFX and it's not perfect but I'm awful proud of it!


Tell me what you think,
Travis Gordon
http://www.spellfury.com