Morphing Thru Time

Two blog updates in less then 7 days, I must be going crazy!

No, I just thought since im leaving to visit family tomorrow morning and I wont be able to hop back onto the internet till sometime next week now would be as good a time as any to update this blog. So thats what im doing, and not even you can stop me!

So what have I been up too since I last blogged a few days ago? Well, I uploaded this little flash animation from 2005. Dont ask me now what its about or what the joke is, I dont remember, but I havent made anything like it since so I guess its sort of interesting.



Anyone who has known me since 2004 will also remember a web series I made over the span of a week called Bricks Are Fun. It was a silly little series where the joke was the idea that there was no joke. It sort of exploded on DeviantArt and had lots of spin offs and for a couple of weeks it was super popular. Looking back on it its probably the single most popular solo project I ever undertook, which is ironic since it was made incredibly lazily, with one episode made every afternoon over 8 days. Each one only took a couple of hours to throw together. After talking to a friend about old projects I noticed it was still getting traffic, from people I can only assume are looking for it out of nostalgia. For this reason I decided to get the series ready for upload to Youtube. Ive been tweaking the visuals slightly, so they are all uniform and dont hurt the eyes quite as much as they did back in 2005, with most of the gradients and photos gone in favor of flat shading. The animation itself however has been left untouched and is just as horrible as it ever was. It will however contain a new opening sequence as well as credits and copyright free music. You can see some screens below from episodes in progress. Ive chosen to keep the episode names the same, even tho some of them make no sense structurally, its all part of the fun I guess.

Episode 01: Bricks Are Fun

Episode 02: Bricks Are Flammable

Episode 03: Bricks Are Do Stuff

Episode 04: Bricks Are From Space

Episode 05: Bricks Are Fight Back

Episode 06: Bricks Are Cameo

I still have large amounts of Episode 06 that need to be finished, and then Episodes 07/08 to go and it should be all nicely wrapped up. Im hoping to get all the episodes finished while im away visiting family, and ill do the sound when I get back home and have access to the internet again.

Also on Monday I drew this chocolate teddy with its ear bitten off after a twitter discussion about eating chocolate bears even tho they are so cute.

And thats really it for this week again. Down the bottom you will find all of this weeks Tumblr pics, all from 2005 once again. So until I get home and have a lot to talk about again, as im sure I will. Adios.

Fat of the Land

Sorry for the late post, I was up last night watching Rise of Planet of the Apes...

Now, what did I get up to this week? Well, to be honest, not a whole lot. I started going through some of my old animations, ones that I thought might be worth putting on Youtube. The first one I converted to HD and re-uploaded was one of my sequences from a Newgrounds Flash Collaboration I oversaw back in 2005 called "The Doom Project". In the end I animated 3 sequences but this is the only one I still have the source file for. It was called "Hall of the Cyber Demon".



I also dug up the source file for another quick animation called "The Pickle Has You" which I will be uploading next Monday, and also all 10 episodes of "Bricks Are Fun" which im not only converting to HD, but also tweaking the art a little bit and redoing the audio so its more Youtube friendly. Hopefully I will be able to release one of these shorts a week over the next 9 weeks.

Today was also a biggish day, me and my partner both went into a small market, which was similar to an Etsy store if it occupied 3D space. They had all kinds of neat stuff at the stalls, and on the tables in the middle of the market they had marker pens so you could draw all over paper they had them covered in. I drew a robot as they are what I tend to draw when I dont know what else to do.

I also got the following movie posters.

Im not sure where I will put these yet, but im sure I will find somewhere appropriate.

I also went to the Android Land store where the animations I worked on are being displayed, was cool seeing them all up in a row.

The only other real news I have is that i've been posting old images with a small write up about them daily this week on my Tumblr. But before I do ill also mention that I will be heading to the Northern Rivers to visit my family for Christmas this coming Thursday, so I will either blog this coming Wednesday or when I get home the week after.

So I guess this is the official end of this weeks blog, if you want to check out a few old images from 2005 that I had posted on my Tumblr then have a look below. Adios.

The Rainbow Connection

Well, I didn't blog last week. I cant remember why... I remember it being rather chaotic, but not the reasons why... oh well...

This week I remember things tho!

On Tuesday night I went to a special screening of all the final films made by the students doing the Film and Television Tafe course as Swinburne University. That was quite interesting, especially since its a course I am potentially undertaking myself next year. I had my interview for the course yesterday and the teachers seemed impressed with my work which is always nice.

The other thing I saw the following night was a special preview screening of The Adventures of Tin Tin.

When I originally saw the trailer, like most people I was sceptical, and the movie did start a little slow. But  on the whole I ended up really enjoying the film. I also liked the fact that despite it was all motion captured it didn't suffer with that strange "dead eyes" problem a lot of previous mo cap movies have had. It wasn't the greatest movie of the year by any means, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp none the less.

As for my own personal projects, its been a busy week again with work and other things, so I havent got any animation work done. But I did find the time to make some cute vector art based around Skyrim! Cute by my works standards at least.

Other then that I booked my tickets to visit my family over the xmas break. Hopefully since I wont have internet or anything I will finally be able to finish Gerkinman Returns with no distractions, but we will have to wait and see...