-Austin Douglas Ford: Born December 5th, 1994. Austin is a dedicated film maker and Halo fan. He is in the graduating class of 2013, and plans on attending college in San Marcus, Texas at Texas State. When he was younger, he wouldn't sit through anything, not a book, not a movie, not a nap. When he was introduced to the film, Toy Story, he was hooked, and has been ever since. He got into animation after becoming a fan of Dragon Ball Z when he was six years old. After seeing an M-rated web series called Red vs Blue, he knew he wanted to make machinima of his own. Although he never reached this goal, he did purchase his first camera at the age of 13 and became hooked on being on camera and behind it, directing his first series known as "Frenchy and the Rednek". He planned a second "season" of the 16-episode show but decided that he didn't want to continue anymore.
In his freshman year of high school at New Braunfels High School he met someone named Victoria Clarkson, whom he says was a part of his team for a "limited amount of time". Clarkson would later introduce him to a script's rough draft that would become the mainframe for the script the Utter Demise of Lake Grimmer". She moved away before they could start any camera work on the film and it was postponed until a later date.
The week his grandfather, Homer Dean Ford, passed he would walk to a gas station and buy a spiral notebook and start a new project that he had wanted to do for a long time. Once home, the started work on a script that would end up being roughly 95 pages. It was his first full length, solo written script yet. It was titled "The Union" and it was all of his friends favorite story, set in the aftermath of 2012, a post-apocalyptic story was great for a young and upset Austin to kill his frustration. He would later put it away along with the beginning of a sequel and never find either one again.
His next ambitious project would be a documentary he was doing about the education system that same year. The film got to be "roughly 80% done" before he would destroy any and all evidence of it's existence, saying that he "didn't like where it had gone to. It wasn't how [he] originally wanted it to turn out."
Later, he would collaborate with Micheal Lopez, a fellow employee at the Gristmill Bar and Grill in Gruene, Texas. They would double team a script known as "Double Cheese". They would never film the project, but still joke about it when they have a get together.
It wasn't until a year and a half later, in July of 2011, that he would write another script. He wrote, on his lunch breaks at work, a script he would call "The List". He is still to this day working on a more perfected copy of the script, saying that he "wont film it until [he's] perfectly happy with each and every word and the way it's used." He feels that his work on the script is too fine to let it just be "okay".
On Easter weekend of 2012, he went with his dad to go work on a job site rebuilding a disabled war vets drive way. While working there, he would meet a man that he calls Patrick (just Patrick) who works grip on commercial, film, and music video sets. Patrick told Austin that if he was ever interested in joining him on set that he could "work him into the set".
His most recent project is Oliver, the book reboot of his old Post-apocalyptic movie script. Calling it more of a "spiritual successor" It is predominately the same exact story with little changes here and there. When his friends asked him why he is re-writing it as a book instead of a script like he did originally, he replied with "I thought I could tell a richer story, a more readable story in the form of a book than a script" that "when the time comes, I'll adapt the new version into a script."
He now writes for this blog, Directs his short projects, and sometimes works with the man he refers to as Patrick on set. He lives in New Braunfels, Texas.
-Grant A. Robles: Grant Alexander Robles was born on December 20th, 1994. Grant is the Co-Founder of Austin's original team, which Austin refers to as the "First Five", dating back to the spring of 2008. All the way back then, they called themselves Not So Bright productions. Grant had a large hand in some of the character personality that Austin wrote into his characters, and was supposed to portray his own character on the Machinima series they never got to do. Grant was also responsible for a majority of their conceptualization. He held a position that no one else could've take, which was Austin's "best Friend". He was actually introduced to Austin by Charles Cummins. Grant technically stopped being a member in the summer of 2009, but Austin still says he'd love to work with him in the future. He currently resides in New Braunfels, Texas.
-Charles "Chuck" Cummins: Chuck was born on May 26th, 1995. Chuck was also a member of the original "First Four" team. Chuck was going to be a voice actor in the Machinima series that was the groups real ambition. The thing that Austin says he liked most about Chuck was that he could "Make fun of him nonstop for hours at a time and he wouldn't get upset about it and never took it personal. He knew [Austin] was joking and that's something people don't get anymore." Chuck remained a member until the summer of 2009. He currently resides in New Braunfels, Texas.
-David White: David was born on September 14th, 1994. David was also a member of the "First Five" team. David was known amongst the group as the snappy, not afraid to speak his mind guy and it also got him in a lot of trouble. David was set to voice a character named McGruff, the only character to be in each project they worked on and never get a personality change. David is also a member who Austin could see himself working with again. David's membership ran until the summer of 2009. David lives in McQueeney, Texas.
-Jack Saunders: Jack was one of the last to become part of the team. Jack came in from meeting Austin on accident one day after hearing him talking about the newest Halo video game. Austin was interested in Jack being a member of the team, made him fill out a ridiculous fake survey and he was a part of the team after that. Jack remained a member until the summer of 2009. He resides in New Braunfels, Texas.
-Victoria Clarkson: Victoria Clarkson was a member of Austin's second team for a short amount of time. Her membership ran from March of 2010 until about December of 2010. She was responsible for the conception and development of the script that was known as "The Forbidden Rose" which would later be called "The Utter Demise Of Lake Grimmer". The story ran along a decent tale of a boy who completely changes because of him loneliness. She is a very talented actress and writer and now resides in Wichita, Kansas.
