March 07, 2008

A Great Storyboard To Film Comparison Of Horton Hears A Who:

First Pics From THE WATCHMEN

My all time favorite comic book is finally
being filmed, here's a look at the characters:

Thanks to Darryl for finding this.

Google Maps

The Best Two Minutes Of Your Life:

Wheels on Meals

In the movie, Jackie Chan and 6 time kickboxing world champion Benny "The Jet" Urquidez squared off in one of the most legendary fights ever created.

Jackie Chan "Drunken Master 2"

Some Amazing Interactive Physics Programming for Simple Online Fun:


Thanks to Jacques for finding this.

The Vector Art of Daniele De Nigris:

Found on Signalnoise

Eric Clapton Shreds

March 03, 2008

Some Puppet Skits

Jimmy discovers a bit of animation:


Hep Cat makes his debut:


Miss Betty talks about sexually transmitted diseases in
Chapter 2 of her Personal Health Education Class:


Barff seeks some advice from Jimmy:

Barff spells a new word:



Introducing the newest puppet to the family, HEP CAT!
Here's his first photo shoot,
complete with armpit and belly hair!














The puppet was built by the immensely talented Jarrod Boutcher.
Here's the original sketch by Mark Cappello.

Picture of the Day

Yellowtail


Created by
Golan Levin it's an interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation. Yellowtail repeats a user's strokes end-over-end, enabling simultaneous specification of a line's shape and quality of movement. Each line repeats according to its own period, producing an ever-changing and responsive display of lively, worm-like textures. If you use a Wacom pen it's great! Click on image to play. Via Flong.com

A Commercial

Snow Crystals - Photographed at 400X Zoom

March 02, 2008

Death Cab For Cutie's Crooked Teeth


This version of Crooked Teeth was made for less than $5K by Rob Schrab, the genius behind Scud, Twigger's Holiday and Ringwald and Molly. If you don't know what any of those things are I'd recommend searching for them here on youtube. He's combined puppetry with stop-motion and limited animation techniques and come up with a unique looking video. Rob explains the process and inspiration behind the video in a YouTube interview and visit robschrab.com

Found on PuppetVision

Picture of the Day

Teen Wolf

February 29, 2008

Our Love Will Make the World Go Round



Introducing the new music video by Mike White for the Meligrove Band.


Mike produced all the animation in Flash and painstakingly shot live action footage and composited into Flash by masking out the band members frame-by-frame!

With only a little help from
Nicholas Trudel for a bit of post FX, Mike designed, animated and composited the entire video himself in what little spare time he had on evenings and weekends over the last 6 months.

Mike White's animation director credits include the Work On You MSTRKRFT video and Season 2 of Delilah & Julius.

February 28, 2008

The Count... censored!

Hapless robbers target biker meeting

Two masked and machete-wielding men who barged into a club in Sydney, Australia, couldn't have picked a worse night for their robbery -- a monthly meeting of bikers.

About 50 burly bikers fought back with tables and chairs -- pretty much anything that wasn't bolted down. One would-be robber was tied up; the other in the hospital.

Police arrested both.

"These guys were absolutely dumb as bricks," Jerry Vancornewal, leader of the bikers, told CNN Thursday. "I can't believe they saw all the bikes parked up front and they were so stupid that they walked past in."

Vancornewal and his buddies were at the Regents Park Sporting and Community Club in Sydney when the two men wearing ski masks stormed in Wednesday night. They yelled at patrons to drop to the floor as they emptied cash registers at the bar.

Hearing the commotion from an adjacent room, Vancornewal and his pals with the Southern Cross Cruiser motorcycle club stomped through to the bar area to intervene.

"They (the robbers) thought they had the upper advantage with their knives and their machetes," Jim Webb, night supervisor of the club, told CNN. "They didn't expect to run into a bunch of guys carrying chairs and tables."

One of the would-be robbers crashed through a plate-glass door and jumped off a balcony.
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"All he had to do was push the button and it automatically opened," Webb quipped.

New South Wales police said they arrested the 20-year-old man a short distance away.

The second man made a break for it through the club's service entrance, but the bikers tackled him near a neighbor's fence.

"We just grabbed him, crash-tackled him to the ground, hogtied him with electrical wire and left him for the cops," Vancornewal said.

Police confirmed in a statement that club patrons subdued the second man until officers arrived, but did not provide additional details. The suspect turned out to be a 16-year-old boy.

Both would-be robbers were charged with attempted armed robbery and "face disguised with intent to commit indictable offense," police said.

A third person, who was waiting in a getaway car, took off when the bikers threw pieces of furniture at him, Webb said. Police have not located him.

The Regents Park Sporting and Community Club is a place where locals come to enjoy drinks and take part in various games: cricket, soccer, lawn bowling. The biking enthusiasts meet there once a month to plan rides and other club activities.

In the last year or so, criminals have struck the club about 10 times, Webb said. And Wednesday night's incident, while unusual, wasn't the most memorable.

"We have these old bingo players and they are really serious about their games," Webb explained. "They do not like to be interrupted."

When robbers barged in one evening and announced that they were holding up the place, the players turned around and testily told them to be quiet.

"They were making it difficult for the players to hear the numbers being called," Webb said.

Courtesy of CNN.com