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FinalFinal Project
Glitch Productions (also known simply as Glitch; formerly Glitchy Boy or Glitchy Boy Productions) is an Australian independent animation studio based in Sydney, New South Wales. The studio was founded in 2017 by producer Kevin Lerdwichagul and animator Luke Lerdwichagul, who is known for being the creator of the sketch comedy machinima ''SMG4''. Glitch is known for independently producing and funding animated web series such as ''Meta Runner'', ''Sunset Paradise'', '' Murder Drones'', '' The Amazing Digital Circus'', and '' The Gaslight District.'' Glitch's founders were featured in ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 list for Media, Marketing, and Advertising in 2023. History Background Co-founder Luke Lerdwichagul started making YouTube videos in 2009. On 7 May 2011, at the age of 11, Luke created his first web series; a ''Super Mario 64''-based machinima later to be known as ''SMG4'' (an acronym of his YouTube channel name, "SuperMarioGlitchy4"). Produced using footage from an emulat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gaslight District
''The Gaslight District'' is an Australian adult independent-animated web series created, written, and directed by Nick Szopko and produced by Glitch Productions. The series centres around a family of undead gangsters living in a post-apocalyptic world following the genocide of humans. The pilot premiered on Glitch's YouTube channel on 18 April 2025. It received critical acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for its visuals, writing, characters, and voice acting. Premise The Smiling Dead, a family of undead gangsters, try to find their place and fight for control in a post-apocalyptic world. Cast and characters Main * Allanah Fitzgerald as Melancholy "Mel" Hill, the Smiling Dead's mafia princess and sole human member, who is prophesied to bring destruction to the Gaslight District. She is passionate about joining the gang's activities at the risk of exposing her identity, which leads to disagreements with Ken. * Jason Marnocha as Ken the Butcher, the homici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Author Surrogate
As a literary technique, an author surrogate (also called an author avatar) is a fictional character based on the author. The author surrogate may be disguised, with a different name, or the author surrogate may be quite close to the author, with the same name. Some authors use author surrogates to express philosophical or political views in the narrative. Authors may also insert themselves under their own name into their works. Usage Fiction Frequently, the author surrogate is the same as the main character and/or the protagonist, and is also often the narrator. As an example, the author surrogate may be the one who delivers political diatribe, expressing the author's beliefs, or expound on the strengths and weaknesses of other characters, thereby communicating directly the author's opinion on the characters in question. Philosophers and writers may use author-surrogates to express their personal positions, especially if these are unpopular or run counter to established views. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Source (game Engine)
Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve. It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of '' Half-Life: Source'', '' Counter-Strike: Source'', and '' Half-Life 2''. Valve used Source in many of their games in the following years, including '' Team Fortress 2'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', and the '' Portal'' and '' Left 4 Dead'' franchises. Other notable third-party games using Source include most games in the '' Titanfall'' franchise, '' Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines'', '' Dear Esther'', '' The Stanley Parable'' and '' Garry’s Mod''. Valve released incremental updates to Source before it was succeeded by Source 2 in 2015. History Source distantly originates from the GoldSrc engine, itself a heavily modified version of John Carmack's Quake engine with some code from the Quake II engine. Carmack commented on his blog in 2004 that "there are still bits of early ''Quake'' code in ''Half-Life 2''". Valve employee Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garry's Mod
''Garry's Mod'', commonly clipped as ''GMod'', is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of ''Garry's Mod'' has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game modes, notably ''Trouble in Terrorist Town'' and ''Prop Hunt'', are created by other developers as mods and are installed separately, by means such as the Steam Workshop. ''Garry's Mod'' was created by Garry Newman as a mod for Valve's Source game engine and released in December 2004, before being expanded into a standalone release that was published by Valve in November 2006. Ports of the original Windows version for Mac OS X and Linux followed in September 2010 and June 2013, respectively. As of September 2021, ''Garry's Mod'' has sold more than 20 million copies. A spiritual successor, '' S&box'', has been in development since 2015. Gameplay ''Garry's Mod'' is a physics-based sandbox game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |