September 12, 2006

Pocoyo

Probably the best 3D-animated television series yet!
I could sit and watch these all day. Why aren't they out on DVD yet? Here's the only episodes I could locate, they're hard to find. Wonderful style, amazing timing, strong poses, everything about it is perfect! Pure genius! Watch these clips, you won't be disappointed.


Ep. 1 - Big Sneeze

Ep. 2 - Puppy Love

Ep. 3 - Drum Roll

Ep. 4 - Don't Touch

September 10, 2006

Minuscule


Imagine an animated National Geographic documentary by Chuck Jones with a sonic-speed ladybug embarking on an epic chase sequence. This fantastic short is a combination of 3D character animation and live footage. Nice timing, great humor, very well shot, and great sound design.

Old School Cookie Monster!

September 09, 2006

Star Trek: Gets CGI Update (getting "Lucased")

Between keeping track of the reissuing the Star Wars films and their personal duties of repainting new uniforms on G.I. Joes, nerds just can't get a break when it comes to the renovations of their old obsessions. The latest to fall victim to the hand of progress is Star Trek: The Original Series.
Trek Movie claims the series will be re-aired with new CGI effects for the opening and outer space scenes created for HDTV broadcast. Great idea. Don't they know nerds hate it if you tamper with anything they have an obsessive following for? That's why so many have run away from home when their mothers replaced their Mountain Dew with Big K's Citrus Drop. I personally think it's stupid, stop tweaking and re-doing the classics, stop re-doing Starwars twelve times, and just stop the madness!

The studio hopes the updated effects will attract a younger audience, primarily by digitally replacing Chekov with Raven-Symone.

A Cartoon


Does it get any better than this?

Here's a couple retarded movies coming soon...


September 07, 2006

Superman Retires

By far the funniest thing ever!

Vader Sessions

Torn by good & evil and an incestuous love affair, a lonely and depraved Darth Vader has a nervous breakdown. It was created entirely by using the true voice of Vader, Mr. James Earl Jones himself! Created By Steven Frailey

September 04, 2006

Character Studies

Skeletal Systems of Twenty Two Past & Present Cartoon Characters.

Also, this Korean art exhibit takes the concept one step further by creating not just images, but the physical skeletal systems of popular animated characters. Check out that Road Runner!

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

Six years before Michael Johnson co-directed Corpse Bride he was animating/directing commercials and music videos, here's one of my favorites he did for Primus.

August 30, 2006

Spinning

Late one night in animation college, 8 years ago...
Me, Ben, and our camera man, Jeff decided to film me spinning on a floor buffer left unattended at 3am in the hallway... this was the result... notice how Ben attempts to keep the power cord from getting tangled, but ends up wrapping it tightly around my neck.



August 27, 2006

Some more animated music videos...

Todd McFarlane's Land Of Confusion


Cal Brunker's Breaking Even

August 25, 2006

Updated Links

Well this silly little blog has reached 10,000 hits since late March. I have no clue who's visiting this site so much, but it feels cool to see so many people interested in the random stuff I post. Of course the intention was for it to be a daily sketch blog, but we all knew it would instead turn out to be an amalgamation of all things silly or mildly interesting that I would find on the webernet.

To commemorate my 222nd post on this blogger, here's some awesome sites and blogs that I've rediscovered recently, filled with great artwork, photos and videos. These are ALL worth a quick peek, please visit them and enjoy.

Adam Hughes' massive archive of delicious artwork.

Photos of walls, sounds strange, but there's some great stuff here.

Dexter's Lab designer, Chris Battle.

Remarkable Photos of China.

Nededlu's fantastic artwork.


Jessica's new Blog - amazing cartoon drawings and renderings.

Amazing photos of Tokyo by Night.

The crazy art styles of Ian Worrel.

Best camera shop ever.

Caroline's monsters!

Jenny's amazing doodles.

Some cool CG imagery by Pistachios.

The incredible moose drawings of Geordie Millar.

The Art of Eric Powell.

Cool recent bear sketches from Matt Williames.

Seth MacFarlane and cast in the sound booth
in Behind The Scenes on Family Guy.


Antoine Antin's latest pencil tests of Asterix.

The Bio of local artist Darwyn Cooke.

The Little Matchgirl; Disney's next attempt at reproducing quality animated shorts, cool boards, sketches and clips.

A massive collection of original Star Wars deleted scenes, some I've never seen before.

The comic art of Mike Allred.

Ian Worrel's astounding artwork.

The wonderful background designs of Mr. Parpan.

Sean Galloway has new slick characters drawn up.

Behind the scenes on Scanner Darkly, pretty cool model sheets with the Rotoshop technique.

Comicbook artist Casey Jones.

Trevor Jimenez; an animation student with an awesome variety of styles.

The fantastic sketches of Linton Joseph.

A cluster of artwork made by various talented contributors.

My new favorite independent Flash animator, Pascal Campion,
this guys is absolutely phenomenal!


Jim White's blog is showing us step by step progressions
for the development of his animated series, sleek designs
and appealing color palettes are currently being displayed.


Collideascope Animation blog finally updated!

My crappy photos