Yak Phlem is a amorphous blob of gooey green entity, that goes around and has all sorts of wacky, mad-capped adventures. He lives in a universe that has few laws and little order.

 
Yak is primarily a stop motion animated character, but takes many different forms, depending on his mood and can been seen in Stop Motion animation and digital cartoons.

 
Yak comes from the fertile mind of creator Hue Wong. He lives in a dynamic universe of good and evil where all things are possible.

 
Does it matter?

 
Yak is a mix of traditional stop motion animation techniques and 3d animation and video composting. It's a PC shop here in Yak land and the software tools are a mix of Adobe premier and after effects, 3d studio and windows media and QuickTime as the encoding tools.

The process is fairly straight forward and pretty traditional. It starts with and idea, some concept or story line that needs to be communicated. The some pre-prod work. Usually nothing fancy. A concept sketch or two to help set the tone and establish the look and feel. Maybe if there is some complex effects trick or something, then some loose storyboards and banged out. We sure love storyboards around here. They have flagged some simple things way before they have become issues and I highly recommend adopting their use in any film or video project.

Anyway... Then a stage or two is built. Depending on the stage, as anything and everything is considered for sets and such, but anything that need fabricated is usually built out of low cost materials. Cardboard, construction papers, balsa woods, packing Styrofoam's, that sort of thing. Then the characters are built and props are dug up (dollar stores make great prop houses!!!!)

At this stage its time to shoot. A small varsity of Sony digital video cameras are used for shooting, Hooked directly to a pc or laptop running premier via a 20 foot firewire camera. Then is standard frame-by-frame stop motion technique. Three minutes of finished footage, usually takes about a week of three-four hour days of work. Then is into premier and after effects for editing, audio work, color correction and any effects such as green screen compositing.

At this point some passes through windows media encoder, ( but am now just adoption media Encoder 10 and Cleaner to put it into QuickTime. and a post on the web and then on to the next one.

 
HHmmmmm..... We'll we've never really seen him eat, now that you mention it, but he drinks just about anything that comes along...

 

 
Phlem has a range of colors. If it's clear, white, or pale, the infection may still be viral, and antibiotics may not be necessary. If it's yellow, green, brown, or bloody you might need antibiotics.

 
Does it matter?

 
I think Yak understands that concept quite well. Remember to support your right to keep and arm bears!

 
Yak is NOT a ninja, but he does get mistaken for one, quite a bit. He does battle ninja stethomite masters on occasion. Although these aren't real ninjas either. Real ninjas are so bad ass and have real ultimate power

Ninjas can kill anyone they want! Ninjas cut off heads ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. These guys are so crazy and awesome that they flip out ALL the time. I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town.