James Farr

James Farr is a freelance animator and animation director based at present in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is widely known by the online community for his animated series "Xombie", which quickly gained cult status in 2003 and has spawned an illustrated novel, "Xombie: Dead on Arrival", a comic book series published by Devil's Due, "Xombie: Reanimated", as well as an upcoming animated feature film. His films are particularly popular on Newgrounds, where they have over 4.5 million views. All of the "Xombie" chapters are almost always within the top-50 list, and James Farr is currently the sixth-highest-rated artist on Newgrounds (for many years, he was in the top three). [http://www.newgrounds.com/rankings/artists]

His portfolio includes work for Epic Level entertainment, New Line Cinema, GeekRescue.com and the Oklahoma City Blazers. He has a son, Vector Farr, and a Jack Russel Terrier named Courage.

One of the producers for the 2007 film TransformersFact|date=November 2007 placed Farr at the scene of an accident involving a Decepticon, at the fictional company website, [http://www.sectorseven.org] . There, Farr moonlights as Lead Researcher, the accident occurring while performing an experimental procedure on an unamed decepticon subject.

Projects

He currently has several projects in various stages of production. These include:

Xombie

Xombie tells the story of a little girl named Zoe, who washes ashore several decades after a zombie plague has wiped out most life on Earth and replaced it with bloodthirsty reanimated versions of the planet's previous inhabitants. She is saved from a swarm of zombies by Dirge, a "variant", a zombie who has retained their conscious mind and the ability to think like a human. (According to the official website, the variants are called "xombies", but the term has yet to be used in the series itself, likely because it is pronounced the same way as "zombie".) Dirge takes it upon himself to perform one last good deed before his zombie body withers away and begins a journey to reunite Zoe with the few remaining live humans and save her from a gruesome death at the hands of the undead.

Recently, Farr has released a book displaying the events of the first saga the series, entitled "Xombie: Dead On Arrival". There is also a six issue comic book series called Xombie: Reanimated, the first issue was released April 2007. The series will be the second part of the intended Xombie trilogy.

Call of the Cryptids

An animation series in production about the struggles of Kendra Call, a young cryptozoologist, haunted by ghoulish visions of her childhood, desperately searching for proof of monsters unknown to modern science. Upon discovering a note addressed to her and written in riddles, she is flung into a secret war of monsters, to which the rest of the world is seemingly oblivious.

Legends of Nephthys

This will be a prequel to the other Farr flash, Xombie. The name implies that it will be about the Egyptian xombie Nephthys. Currently in pre-production.

EV

A 160-page manga from Tokyopop written by Farr. Released April 2008.

Interviews

* [http://comics.ign.com/articles/802/802979p1.html IGN Comics Interview: When 'Xombies' Attack]

External links

* [http://www.jamesfarr.com JamesFarr.com] - Official Site
* [http://www.xombified.com Xombie]
* [http://www.epiclevel.com Epic Level Entertainment]
* [http://www.callofthecryptids.com Call of the Cryptids Official Site]