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Aw man, late again. Better late then never? Maaaaaybe...?

So... whats up you ask? What do you mean you dont want to know? Well im going to tell you anyway, because thats the kind of guy I am.

Its time for an animation extravaganza! First up we have my loopdeloop for this month was "Play". I originally wanted to have my Nimbin character Max pick up a ball and throw it so hard it travelled around the world and smacked him in the back of the head. After some experiments it wasn't really working out, so after watching BRODYQUEST

as I do at least once a month when I need inspiration, I decided to go back to an older idea, albeit making it much simpler, that being GERKINQUEST. As BRODYQUEST parodies were quite big a couple of years ago when I had the idea. As a result of that, we now have GERKINQUEST, as we watch Gerkinman travel the world while paying attention to little else aside from his Gameboy.


Next up we have 4 HD rereleases. What a busy couple of weeks it has been.

The second episode of Nimbin is finally up. Made in 2004 this was the last episode animated by me before Mark Schnieder took over and made it look a billion times better then I ever could. I touched up the backgrounds and modified the audio quite a great deal but all the original animation, or the little animation there is rather, remains.


Then we have King Dodongo. This short was originally made for a flash collaboration in 2004 with numerous other animators from Newgrounds. This was also one of the first full shorts I had done with my tablet, which at the time was a Wacom Graphire 3. Being in my teens at the time I was obsessed with The Legend of Zelda and this was not the first nor the last time that Link or would feature in my flash animations. Due to the loss of the original sound files the audio has been redone from scratch.


Also from 2004 was this short flash, which was originally supposed to be the rebirth of the Bricks Are Fun series, but it never really took off and so I left it. Now retitled "How to sound like a chicken", this version of the animation has a slightly updated background and the sound has been completely reworked.


Lastly we have my segment from another collaboration with different animators from Newgrounds. This time from 2009. The idea of the flash was to animate something, each artists first frame of the animation would be based off the last frame of the artist that animated before them. This animation, later named "Mind" had never been released online until now. I went in and cleaned up... or dirtied up the backgrounds might be more appropriate. The animation and audio has been left untouched.


My final piece of animation goodness isn't so much a piece of animation as it is a piece of concept art for an animated film I would like to make next year. This is not the final piece, I have since modified the text layout and fixed some typos. More on this project as it comes.

As far as my personal life, im going to be handing in an application form for a new apartment tomorrow morning, before going to TAFE and putting my recently film project "Overcome" onto a tape to be handed in tomorrow. Come to think of it the final script for Wanker will be read out in scriptwriting class tomorrow, and ill be presenting the DVD slip case above in multimedia. Then Tuesday "Overcome" will be getting screened and that afternoon my redubbed Spiderman clip gets screened in sound design class... before I head off to this months loopdeloop. Oh man... hectic week...

Horse with no name

Well, I didn't make a post last week, shame on me. BUT! I have been very productive. Not only have I just finished working on my very first proper TV commercial, but I also got a few quick illustrations done and managed to finish of my entry for this months Loopdeloop. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.

First of all the commercial, I wish I could post it here, but I cant, so you know what, im going to stay quite  until its up on the companies Vimeo account. What I can say is this, I animated it in Flash, which I shouldn't have, and it still somehow came out pretty great, or at least it was until the client told us to "tone it down" and make it less fun. Ah well.

Second of all is my loop! This loop marked the first time I had done a number of new things. It contains painted backgrounds done in Art Rage with oil paints and the spade thing that people use to mix them, I dont know what its called. Anyway, the end result ends up looking something like this.

And then there was the way I rendered the animation, which was the same process im using to animate Gerkinman returns, so the animation came out looking like this.

So once you mix these two things, and throw in some sound and some special effects courtesy of Final Cut Pro which im now learning to use for work, you end up with a final product similar to this.

And I couldn't be happier with it, or at least, not much happier. You can vote for it on Loopdeloop HERE if you feel the urge.

In other news I did a few quick doodles.

Here is Mr Kermit The Frog. For some reason I have been drawing frogs a lot lately.

Here is an Uglysaurus to celebrate Friday because... well... why not?

And lastly here is an angry man bursting through a door. A friend asked me about how she could make a shot in an animation my dramatic, the shot being a guy bursting through a door. I suggested a low angle shot and then for some reason felt the urge to color the original sketch.

And thats it for this week... or the last two weeks. Whats going to happen next time? Who knows! Tune in to find out.