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Trick – Another Halloween Short

Louis — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:00 +0000

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.

The Claw Hands are Coming!

Louis — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:14:00 +0000

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.

Are you… Bored Stiff?

Louis — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:28:00 +0000

May we introduce our sticky new born, ‘Bored Stiff’. Here’s what it has to say for itself:

Dr. Nick Deadly gets bored and takes time out to work on an extra-curricula project. Plus, there was queue for the toilet.

Click here to see it in all its (half) HD glory!

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.

Machinarium, Beautiful New Game by Amanita Design

Louis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:38:00 +0000

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.

Mmmm… suck it in.

Video Round up 3

Louis — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:25:00 +0000

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?

Video Round Up 2

Louis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:00 +0000

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.

Featured on YouTube!

Louis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:02:00 +0000

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.

All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) Trailer

Louis — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:32:00 +0000

Here’s the lastest glimpse of the upcoming film, All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat). Should be a good’un when it’s done.

Portfolio Review at Flip

Louis — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:22:00 +0000

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.

The panelists include:

Dan Calvert, a senior animator at Blitz Games.
Mick Foley, from Sumo Dojo Productions. Member of PACT National Council for Animation and a council member on the Skillset Animation Forum
Roger McIntosh, an animation director with credits including, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, ‘Peter Rabbit & Friends’, ‘Kipper’ and ‘Angelina Ballerina’.

Things that I’ll try to get to:

Thurs 6th

7-9pm: Opening party at Millenium Point,

Fri 7th

4-5.30pm Portfolio Review Session (obviously),

6–7.30pm Sita Sings the Blues,

Sat 8th

11.15-12.30pm National Film & TV School Screening,

6.45 – 8.30pm: Student Competition (4 film’s from my old college),

8.30pm Closing Party.

Louis & America

Louis — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:12:00 +0000

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.