Neal Warner

Neal Warner

Neal Warner is an artist, writer, filmmaker, member of the multimedia band, The Tooners and founder of Director's Clip, The Internet and Music Video Sponsorship Site (www.directorsclip.com) and Rock & Roll Rehab, For The Control of Rock & Roll (www.rocknrollrehab.com).
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  • Your Muse is Not Yourself
    Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth thought his 'thing' was custom cars but to many of us Baby Boomers his monsters were the big appeal. Sometimes the artist and the fans see things differently.
  • An Animation Writer’s Decision; The Hero’s Journey Verses Good Versus Evil
    Writing for animation is essentially writing for children. Story is important but should be short to allow for humor and character development.
  • How to Have a Hit Record
    If your dream is to have a hit record on the radio, so was mine. Here's what I went through to try and achieve that dream.
  • How the Competition of Professional Sports Can Be the Savior of the Music Business
    Now that music is suppose to be free, how will that affect the quality? Perhaps the world of professional sports can give an answer to the problems of the music business.
  • The Magic of Animation Replaced by the Alchemy of Technology
    As a thirty year veteran of the Hollywood Animation Industry I’ve noticed how the obsolescence of traditional 2D animation has been reflected as a theme in the 3D films of Pixar.
  • The Video Light Shows of Seventies’ Rock and Roll
    Between the psychedelic light shows of the Sixties and the laser light shows of the Eighties there existed the video light shows of the Seventies.
  • How to Pick Up Fans
    Fox's animated sitcom, King Of The Hill, surprisingly had a lesson that is both for life and for art. Who would have thought?
  • How to NOT Respond to Artistic Criticism
    In the world of Entertainment where any press is good press, it is sometimes wise to ignore what is written about you. Just be happy to get noticed even if they're complaining about you. That is often the BEST press.
  • The Coolest Animated Rock and Roll Movies of All Time
    Music and animation are a marriage made in Heaven. However, like Heaven, animated rock and roll movies are not for everyone.
  • The Benefits of Artistic Obscurity
    Being discovered for your artistic endeavors late in life has the benefit of being able to edit out the pieces you wouldn't want the world to see or hear. Few of us aspiring artists or musicians have ever stopped to contemplate this.
  • Happy New End of the World Year
    2012 is a year that popular culture has decided will see the end of the world. From where do people get such an idea?
  • The Song Writing Mystery of the Missing Middle Eight
    The middle eight or bridge in a song is often the hardest part to write. Many songs don't even have a middle eight but the ones that do have a sophistication that sets them apart from all the B sides.
  • My Christmas Memories of the Last Recession
    My roommate and I were on strike and therefore unemployed and our third roommate was on vacation but that didn't stop us from having some Christmas spirit, with eggnog.
  • The Beatles Psychedelic Trilogy
    The Beatles were credited with starting trends and to the fans in the midwest they were the trendsetters from which you heard it first. But the Beatles reflected the world around them and London, England, was from where it all started.
  • How to Make a Horror Movie Viral Video
    The most popular subject among horror movies fans these days are Zombies. With a minimum of costuming and special effects even amateur zombie movies can look pro.
  • How to Time Action for an Animated Film or Music Video Part 2
    Legendary animation director Chuck Jones once gave a talk to the students of Cal Arts and complained that some studios “over animate”. But for a more realistic environment, God is in the details.
  • My Favorite Animation Dinosaurs
    Ironically, the two aspects of working in an animation studio that I liked the best, outside of the paycheck, are now both gone.
  • How to Time Action for an Animated Film or Music Video Part 1
    Whether you’re making a classically animated 2D film, an animated music video or a 3D CGI computer animated movie the basics of animation timing remain the same.
  • Once Upon a Time the Storyteller was the Star
    A lot of people who attended film school will tell you that using a voice over narration in a film is wrong. Word of mouth story telling is becoming a lost art and that is basically what a voice over narration is.
  • The Spirituality of Rock and Roll
    Rock songs are well known for saying things “between the lines” that can’t be said in polite society. Sex and drugs were taboo subjects once and so the slang of the counter cultures of the times was used as code within the song lyrics.
  • Modern Music Rock Rot
    When I was a kid my parents would listen to The Beatles or Led Zeppelin and say, “That’s not singing, that’s just screaming.” So am I just old now and saying the same thing my folks said to me?
  • The Catacomb
    A Christmas poem written from the perspective of the original Christians.
  • How to Make Your Demo Sound Radio Ready
    First timers to the recording studio love to splash on the effects for that "recording studio" sound but then discover that's the sound of the amateur demo.
  • The Kids in Movies Today
    Are the kids today so adverse to hard work and earning their place in the world that even watching someone do it in a movie makes them uncomfortable?
  • Rewriting History
    The Old West lives on in the books, magazine stories and covers, songs and motion pictures that idealize it. Is Rock & Roll entering into a similar phase?
  • The Return of Mrs. Emma Peel
    Are the producers of the Daniel Craig James Bond "reboot" having some fun by merging the British secret agents of the 60s?
  • Rock Fans Vs Rock Bands
    The story of rock and roll is the story of life in the eye of the hurricane but the real story lies in the adventures and memories of the FANS.

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