Here’s a Halloween short Louis did the animation for quite a while back for Will Rot. Probably best not show your kids this one – not the last 20 seconds in any case. Make that 30 seconds, sorry eyes.
You wanna know what it feels like to be an animator?! Huh?! Well 4mations’ Madevi Dailly (pictured) will tell ya what it feels like! HERE! I guess you could say it felt somewhat familiar.
Just realised that the photo above looks like a catagorisation of species. The pasty, hunchbacked Claw Hands are coming… to an obscurely tedious job near you! Although I think Willard Wigan already got there.
They said, ‘It couldn’t be done!’… well more, ‘I don’t want to do it!’. But one digital pen, 3 dogs lives and lawsuit later I had proved them wrong. If you’re interested… Excuse me. Yep. Hi… here’s the original scribbles I did on a tiny scrap of paper a few years ago. The words are me trying to give it a title.
In true Video Wall tradition I don’t normally post videos up on their own (You’re too busy for that nonsense!), but this needs savouring. Machinarium is a beautiful new Flash animated computer game brought to us by Amanita Design. I don’t really waste much time playing computer games anymore but I’d happily sit in front of this for hours I think – Just as long there’s no overblown loading times. Clicky, Clicky Mr. Close Button.
O.K. Its the video wall again. Woop and indeed Di Doop.
‘Grey’ by Ivan Rusev. There’s no real nitty gritty details about this guy which is shame. Think he’s Canadian… or Bulgarian. This has really inspired me. The way that everything’s drawn and animated finally makes me shake off all the snobbishness I picked up studying animation and the world of Richard Williams. The thing about Flash animation it really helps retain styles of illustration that would normally be deemed ‘incorrect’ in terms of it being a 3D object. It also means you just get to spend more time worrying about the most important thing, the story! So thanks, this has really given me a kick up the bum. But remember kids, Flash can make you lazy.
Fight scene from the undefendable, ‘Undefeatable’. If we’re going to be naming and shaming, ‘Godfrey Ho’ directed it. In the words of the YouTubian who posted it “This fight is complete with knife licking, shirt tearing, gratuitous shirtlessness.” I think special thanks to all the cast involved is needed too. “Yeah. See yer.”
Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman of Tourist Pictures. Brilliant video, racking up well over 3million on YouTube so far. Its a food reinactment of the major wars of the last century so it’s meant to be sobering I guess, but funny, ‘cos it’s food. Here’s more details about it.
Hogan Knows Depression by WTF-TV for Comedy.com (expensive domain name for sure). It’s funny and it’s like something we would make, but I get annoyed by the faceless ‘Blam!’ logos they put on these. It’s all about the brand, and that’s just a smiley face. How am I meant to interact with that?
The Black Hole by Phil Williams & Olly Sampson - Great film that won the Virgin Media Shorts competition recntly. Perfect, short premise for a quirky film. Love the character development, without any words.
Crime Fighter by Robot Chicken – Robot Chicken is an ‘Adult Swim‘ program strangely co-created by Seth Green of Austin Powers (sort of) fame.
Don’t tend to go for satire as it dates very quickly, but this is just a very nice, just sarcastic enough quick fire of events from ITN.
Cyriak’s shouldn’t be down at the bottom there. Doing very well for himself at the moment making relatively low tech, hypnotic, GIF avatar-based, repulsive, mahem animations. Just the trick.
Wowzers!, Zoiks! and indeed Blimey! ‘DON’T TOUCH‘ got featured on YouTube! Considering I can’t stand watching the bugger any more I’m quite proud. I suppose it’s appropriate to show you it again… as if it’ll look any different featured. *edit – Thought I’d give you the new HD version to oggle at.
A veritable tirade of news lately. On Friday 4-5.30pm, 6 graduate animators, including myself, will be having our showreels ripped to shit by a panel of experts at The light House, Wolverhampton. It’ll be like standing on stage with my balls hanging out for inspection. In the best possible way, of course.
Just started on a string of commissions for Las Vegas/L.A. based horror filmmaker William Rot. Very nice guy who’s working on the feature ‘Helter Skelter’.
Definitely exercising my dark side at the moment. I should start watching fluffy cartoons and doing charity work to keep myself clean, but I’ll probably just watch porn and cry whilst cutting myself instead.
Wowzers!, Zoiks! and indeed Blimey! ‘DON’T TOUCH‘ got featured on YouTube!
Considering I can’t stand watching the bugger any more I’m quite proud. I suppose it’s appropriate to show you it again… as if it’ll look any different featured. *edit – Thought I’d give you the new HD version to oggle at.
