The URSULA HITLER'S HEAD 100th Episode Extravaganza!

Be sure to have your hanky handy as we look back at three years and 100 episodes of fetishy sex fantasy tragicomic weirdness!

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #99: "A Traumatic Tranny Transformation!"

Some men are born trannies, others have trannyhood thrust upon them... In our latest episode of Ursula Hitler's Head, Mr. Meany is confronted by one of the Xtranormal citizens he transformed into a bimbo.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #98: "School's Out!"

Mean old Mr. Meany has been changed into a little girl... And now he has to go back to kindergarten!

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #97: "Super Duper Mega Gay!!"

Mr. Meany has been turned into a teenage schoolgirl, a mermaid, a skanky blond chick and Posh Spice, and now he's a six-year-old girl. As you'd imagine, his love life can get pretty awkward.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD: "Too Damn Badd: The Badd Doggy P Story"

In this shocking expose we learn the story of Badd Doggy P, misogynist rapper turned hoochie mama.

Dramatic "Inception"-y music by the great and powerful Kevin Macleod.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #96: "Goodnight Meany"

Mr. Meany has been transformed into a precious little girl named Mini, and his friend Sweetie has hired a most unexpected (and unwelcome) babysitter for him.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #95: "Mini and Mommy's Girly-Girl Playtime Party!"

Mr. Meany has been turned into a cute little girl and Sweetie has decided to be his new mommy, so that means big changes for the show.

TRANSCRIPT:

Sweetie: Hello again, folks. There have been some big changes around here... Mr. Meany is now a little girl, and I've adopted her. Her new name is Mini, just like the mouse. So welcome to our new show, Mini and Mommy's Girly Girl Play-Time Party. (Music and logo.) Go ahead Mini, say hello to all the nice people.
Meany: My name is not Mini... Come on, Sweetie... Just because those Xtranormal jerks turned me into a kid, that doesn't mean you have to treat me like one.
Sweetie: Yes, I do... It was part of the conditions of your release from Xtranormal jail. I have to assume full responsibility as your mother, and treat you as my little girl at all times.
Meany: Oh, god... My life is the suckiest thing that ever sucked.
Sweetie: At first I thought maybe it would be weird, but I love being a mommy. And you'll see, being a little girl isn't so bad. You get to wear pretty dresses, and play with dollies. You're even gonna go to school with kids your own age.
Meany: Please, just grab me by the pigtails and chuck me into a wood chipper.
Sweetie: Now listen honeybunch, Mommy has a date tonight, so you gotta promise you'll be a good girl and do what your baby sitter says.
Meany: My baby sitter? I don't need a freaking... Hang on... You have a date?
Sweetie: Yeah. While you were in jail, I started dating Fiona Pretzels. She's a lot more fun, since you turned her into a bimbo. Whenever she starts talking too much, I just put my tongue in her mouth and we end up making out instead. And thanks to you, she looks just like me. I always wanted a lover as hot as I am, and now I've finally got one.
Meany: Oh great... So while I'm stuck here as a kid, you're gonna... (Notices something.) Hang on... Sweetie, Am I crazy, or do you have an erection?
Sweetie: What? Oh right, I forgot to mention that... The Xtranormal people said that I could have your penis. (Pause as he glowers at her.) Oh, come on... It's not like you're gonna be using it.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #94: "Mini-Meany"

It's a new year, and a (very) new Mr. Meany. In our latest episode, poor Mr. Meany has been turned into a cute little six-year-old girl, and he struggles to get used to his strange new life.

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #93: "The Green Mile"

Ever since he screwed around with Xtranormal's programming and turned thousands of people into bimbos, Mr. Meany has been languishing in the Department of Source Code Enforcement's green void jail. In this episode, he finally learns his strange fate...

URSULA HITLER'S HEAD #92: "Bimbofication Nation!"

The bimbofication plague continues to spread through Xtranormal. Even though Mr. Meany is in custody, the mass bimbofication he caused is still raging through the population and it seems nobody is safe from suddenly turning into a horny blonde airhead! Brownie Pyles has this report...

Yes, we're finally back after the months I took off to work on my epic music video for Abby Travis. But all is not as it was... Among other things, we've dropped the "Inside" from "Inside Ursula Hitler's Head"... (We've also apparently begun to refer to ourselves in the third person.) More changes and weird transformations to come in the episodes ahead!

The making of LIGHTNING SQUARED, part 2

Time for another look into how I made the cartoon music video for the Abby Travis song Lightning Squared. This time, we'll examine the characters...

The video almost had a very different look indeed. My original plan was to animate the whole thing using dolls brought to life with stop-motion, with distorted photos of old monster movie stars for the heads. It would have looked something like this rough. I actually got as far as trying to animate a couple of shots using the dolls, and gave up. It was too much work, and it looked crappy. I was also worried about the rights issues. I didn't want to put a lot of work into something only to get a cease-and-desist from the Karloff estate.

Lacking a working scanner, I used my cell phone camera to take pictures of the monsters I doodled in my sketchbook.

Once the doodles were uploaded I could take aspects I liked from one drawing and combine them with another. Then I would shade the drawings and fiddle around with the colors. I hadn't been drawing much for a while before I started making this cartoon, so I was pretty rusty and character design was a challenge.

The Mad Doctor was one of the characters I really struggled with. I kept coming up with designs that just didn't work.

Some of these designs got pretty far along before I aborted them. This Doctor was rejected for being too Nixonian/Bob Hope-y.

For the Angry Mob, I used the heads of a bunch of Confederate generals. That's some cutting-edge political satire, sticking it to John Bankhead Magruder!

The making of LIGHTNING SQUARED, part 1

In the coming days, get ready to learn everything you could ever want to know (and more!) about how I made the cartoon music video for the Abby Travis song Lightning Squared. First off, let's pay a visit to the Frankenstein place...

The castle looks like a drawing, but it's actually more of a photo collage pasted together from the parts of various miniature golf castles I found online. There are little spires and turrets from mini-golf courses all over the world, all twisted, tweaked and painted a spooky blue. (Click all photos to embiggen.)

I went through a lot of castle designs before I settled on one I liked. For a while I was planning to just use images of the Robert Burns Memorial in Scotland. I think it's a fascinatingly funky little building, and I liked the idea of the castle seeming much larger on the inside than the outside... But in the end, this building just didn't fit the frame right! Since the video was widescreen and this building is tall and thin, I had to make the building really tiny or it wouldn't fit the frame at all. Also, this building was a little too realistic... It's the first thing you see in the video, and I thought it was better to start with something more cartoony to establish the style of the rest of the clip.

Another photo collage, heavily worked over. The walls and pillars are actually from a photo of some ancient temple in the Middle East, and the door is from the front of a fancy crypt in South America, if I recall correctly. (And isn't that door awesome?) I actually designed a lot more of the castle antechamber than I ended up using. I thought I was going to show the Angry Mob running down this corridor for a long time, but I ended up having to cut the scene down to like a fraction of a second.

The antechamber once had a very different look, and I was planning to use this old art print (I've forgotten the name of the artist.) The original has a bunch of people in it, and I'm kind of proud of the job I did removing everybody and putting in that checkered floor! I ended up junking this scene because I thought it was looking a little too Monty Python. (I kept having a feeling that Terry Gilliam actually used this print in an old cartoon. Does anybody recognize it?)

Another unused image of the castle interior, assembled from various photos. This was another instance where I decided it looked too "real."

A preliminary drawing of the castle entrance. It just wasn't working, but there was something I kinda liked about it.

A better look at the lightning raygun thing in the lab. It's put together from all sorts of weird elements: an old plastic toy raygun, a brass bell for the base, the folding arm of an old desk lamp, the tip of a bullet for the "bowl" on the firing end. I designed a lot of other lab equipment that I never ended up having room for in the final cut.

An image from a finished but deleted scene. As something of a novice animator, I jumped into this video without timing everything right... So I ended up with a couple of scenes I had to cut, including this shot where the Angry Mob storms the castle. If I ever make another music video, you better believe I'll time that sucker to the nanosecond before I animate a single frame!

Steady, Freddy!

My Lightning Squared video got a lovely plug on the thoroughly ass-kickin' blog Freddy in Space. Johnny, who runs the blog, is a very busy fellow, with at least two other blogs and a Facebook page all featuring more creepy-crawly monstery goodness than we deserve.

As a token of thanks, we present this classic Electric Company cartoon about another Freddy who was a freak for Frankenstein.



In my ceaseless efforts to pimp my video, I've been telling people that it's half Rocky Horror, half Terry Gilliam cut-out cartoon, and half Groovy Goolies, but I didn't quite have my math right... It's also half Steady Freddy.

Abby Travis' LIGHTNING SQUARED music video, directed by Ursula Hitler

Hey, folks! When I took a break from my long-running web cartoon series "Inside Ursula Hitler's Head" a couple of months ago, I went to work making the official music video for "Lightning Squared," a new single from the fabulously talented musician Abby Travis. It's an animated horror romance with a TG twist, and if you enjoy it I plead with you to do everything you can to get the word out about it! I worked really hard on this thing and I'm proud of how it turned out, so I want it to be seen by as many people as possible.

Hope you like it!

Almost...

Hey people. I'll have exciting news very soon... Watch this space!