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It has been an interesting few weeks since my last update. I have spent the majority of the last 2 weeks freelancing at an agency known as Clemengers, with the Melbourne branch being the second biggest advertising agency in Australia. It was a great experience. Now I am waiting to hear back from one of my other recruiting agencies about another job, but thats all boring, how about some fun stuff?

Work has finally started on the new Nimbin series, I dont just mean storyboards and character design either, I mean animation has finally started with the animatic for the pilot episode well and truly under way. I originally thought the first episode would only be around 1 minute long, but now that the animatic has begun, I can see its going to more likely be around the 2 1/2 to 3 minutes. That doesn't mean its going to take 2 years to finish like The Telescope did however. I don't want to say im animating it cheap and nasty, but I am reverting more to an animation style I used in one previous short that was designed around making things look like they are moving smoother then they actually are. Its also the first time I have done lip sync in over 2 years, learning it all over again. So here are some screen grabs.









The main issue im having now is with the title of the series itself. I don't know wether I should called it Nimbin or Gerkinman. After all, it is a direct followup to the original 5 episode Nimbin series with all the same (but redesigned) characters, but it also features Gerkinman a lot more then the original Nimbin series did (he was in 3 of the 5 episodes). Gerkinman is also a much more recognised name online... decisions... decisions...

In news that is completely unrelated to my own animation pursuits, Waldemar Schuur is creating a feature film based on 2 shorts he did called Anusboy. He is looking at raising $10k for the project to cover expenses which is quite achievable I think compared to some other animators demands for this sort of project. You can check out his cry for help below.



And he threw up this animatic as well to help get people interested.



Go lend him a hand over here.



Thats about it folks, keep on keeping on.

Too many rappers

Its almost been a month since my last update, shame on me.

And what a month it has been, turns out a lot can happen in a month. I managed to put a bunch of new shorts out, a couple of illustrations, recorded commentaries for all the Nimbin episodes and The Telescope with Mark Schnieder (animator of the original series). And also managed to loose my job. A lot can change in a month.

But lets start at the beginning. Shorts, animated of course.

So there is a thing thats been going on down here called Loop De Loop where animators all get together and make a little animated loop that gets screened at the Loop Bar here in Melbourne at the end of the month. So far I have contributed to all 3.

Starting off with March we had the theme of "launch". I created this loop which I call "Planet Hopping"



Junes theme was "Opposites". I restarted my loop more times then I care to count. Originally it was an old man on a banjo and young kid on a keyboard playing Dueling Banjos. That didn't work out so I animated a giant mouse chasing a little elephant, but that didn't come out how I wanted it either. So after talking to my dad about it he started talking about "The Amazing Shrinking Man" and somehow my first ever experiment with photo cuts outs was born. I called it Big Fly because I wasn't feeling all that creative after spending the night on this. The night before the due date that is.



Then we came to July, this months theme was "Monsters". Strait off the back of The Big Fly I decided to give photo cut out animation a go. Inspired by any number of Cyriaks works. Crowned "Eat Da Moon".



Lastly, I finally put The Telescope up on youtube, because its a bigger video I had some problems a long the way, but It got there in the end, and with remastered audio. Check it out if you haven't already.



And then we have some new illustrations.

Heres some fan art for Billy Demon Slayer



And some concept art for the new Gerkinman series!



Sadly, as mentioned above, its not all good news. I no longer work at NDS Creative, and its back to freelancing for me. I did a short contract today and hopefully I will have more in the future. Fingers crossed aye. Ill keep you posted!