October 05, 2011
Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn
Music Produced by Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley
http://evelynevelyn.com
Director: Hoku Uchiyama
Produced by: Erich Lochner, Matt Miller, and Adam Bolt
Lead Animator: Adam Bolt
Executive Producers: Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer
Director of Photography: Adam David Meltzer
Evelyn Evelyn played by: Lexi Ibrahim & Nikki Ibrahim
Composite Work: Travis Gorman & Michael Scott
Additional Composite Work: Caleb Clark & Geronimo Moralez
Skeleton-Dance Animator: Julian Birchman
Additional Animation: David Johnston
Character Design: Adam Bolt
Additional Character Design: Odessa Sawyer
Wardrobe Designer: Jessica Huang
Production Design: David A. Novak
1st Assistant Camera: Louis Normandin
Gaffer/Dolly Grip: Rex Kinney
Sound Design: Mike Weinstein
VFX Consultants: Dan Blank & Arvin Bautista
Hair & Makeup: Stephanie Bravo
Skeleton-Dance Performance & Choreography: Shaheed Qaasim & Joanna Meinl
Production Manager: Sky Prendergast
Via OnAnimation
Bring Color To Life
See the Making Of video here.
“The beauty of chance and high speed film come together for this new commercial for Canon’s Pixma printer. Shot over two days with biochemist Linden Gledhill and Award Winning Photographer Jason Tozer.”The spot entitled ‘Bring Colour to Life’ was directed by the fantastic Christopher Hewitt and is as simple as a concept could be but is absolutely spectacular to watch. It’s a beautiful little piece of art that just happened to be commissioned by a client. I can see these effects inspiring graphic designers all day long. You can also take a look at some amazing images from the shoot in Linden Gledhill’s Flickr account, aalong with Christopher Hewitt’s website, and these follow-ups for great FX animation references:
www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/28/sound-sculptures/
Timing and flash triggering by StopShot, see www.cognisys-inc.com
October 04, 2011
The Ant and the Aardvark
The Ant and the Aardvark is a series of 17 theatrical short cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE). The cartoon follows attempts of a blue aardvark named Aardvark (voiced by John Byner, impersonating Jackie Mason) to catch and eat a red ant named Charlie (also voiced by Byner but impersonating Dean Martin), usually doing so by inhaling with a loud vacuum cleaner sound. The character goes unnamed until Rough Brunch, where he states his name is indeed Aardvark. The ant has given him names as well, always beginning with "Old" ("Old Sam," "Old Ben,"...etc.).
In The Ant From Uncle, Charlie calls Aardvark "Dad" the entire episode. In the episodes I've Got Ants in My Plans and Odd Ant Out, the Aardvark tussled against a rival green aardvark (also voiced by Byner), similar to the way Sylvester fought other cats over Tweety in a few of Freleng's earlier shorts at Warner Brothers. Because many Warner alumni worked for DFE, a lot of familiar plots were recycled in the latter studio's cartoons. In Technology, Phooey, the Aardvark utilizes a computer to help think up ideas to catch the ant — very similar in concept to a Chuck Jones short with Wile E. Coyote. This cartoon also features yet another vocal impersonation from Byner, as the Paul Lynde-esque computer.
Also, the last short ever made, From Bed to Worse, borrowed heavily from the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes short, Greedy For Tweety. There were many minor characters in the series. Among them was Cousin Term the Termite, the unnamed cousin ant, Aunt Minerva (one of the Gi-Ants), Tiny the Elephant (Ant's lodge brother), Tiger (voiced by Marvin Miller), the faceless scientist with a Boris Karloff-like voice, the unnamed nurse (voiced by Athena Lorde), the mischievous dog, the anteater-eating shark, the lifeguard who mistook Aardvark for a dog (he always said, "OFF THE BEACH!"), were amongst other classic gags. Most of the minor characters were also voiced by John Byner.
Enjoy the entire series showcased above.
| № | Title | Director: | Story: | Released: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Ant and the Aardvark" | Friz Freleng | John W. Dunn | 1969 |
| 2 | "Hasty But Tasty" | Gerry Chiniquy | John W. Dunn | 1969 |
| 3 | "The Ant From Uncle" | George Gordon | John W. Dunn | 1969 |
| 4 | "I've Got Ants in My Plans" | Gerry Chiniquy | John W. Dunn | 1969 |
| 5 | "Technology, Phooey" | Gerry Chiniquy | Irv Spector | 1969 |
| 6 | "Never Bug an Ant" | Gerry Chiniquy | David Detiege | 1969 |
| 7 | "Dune Bug" | Art Davis | John W. Dunn | 1969 |
| 8 | "Isle of Caprice" | Gerry Chiniquy | David Detiege | 1969 |
| 9 | "Scratch a Tiger" | Hawley Pratt | Irv Spector | 1970 |
| 10 | "Odd Ant Out" | Gerry Chiniquy | Sid Marcus | 1970 |
| 11 | "Ants in the Pantry" | Hawley Pratt | John W. Dunn | 1970 |
| 12 | "Science Friction" | Gerry Chiniquy | Larz Bourne | 1970 |
| 13 | "Mumbo Jumbo" | Art Davis | John W. Dunn | 1970 |
| 14 | "The Froze Nose Knows" | Gerry Chiniquy | Dale Hale | 1970 |
| 15 | "Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle" | Art Davis | Dale Hale | 1970 |
| 16 | "Rough Brunch" | Art Davis | Sid Marcus | 1971 |
| 17 | "From Bed to Worse" | Art Davis | John W. Dunn | 1971 |
October 03, 2011
Herman Dune "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
A young runaway yeti embarks on an adventure into the human world and along the way, makes an unexpected friend in Jon Hamm. Herman Dune's new music video, directed by Toben Seymour.
Watch the video here.
Voice Actor - Bill Farmer
Farmer's first job, at the age of 15, involved doing voices, especially those of Western stars like John Wayne or Walter Brennan. He and his friends would sometimes go through fast food drive-thrus and order foods in his voices. In college, he found work in radio and TV and then moved on to stand-up comedy as an impressionist until he moved out to Hollywood where he voiced Goofy since 1986.
During his stand-up years, Farmer worked at a comedy club called the Comedy Corner in Dallas. Tuesday nights were open mike nights there and he had just taken a job at an electronics store. He had just recently stopped working in show business and radio and he missed his audience. So he went to the club on Tuesday nights and he created his own five-minute routine. Starting on March 16, 1982, he started going to the Comedy Corner every week and started working on his routine and it became a career inside of six months. He worked at the Comedy Corner from 1982 until he moved to California in 1986.
Farmer's decision to move to California came from a Dallas commercial agent who suggested that, given his talent for voices, he should try his luck in California. He was recently married, but he and his wife talked it over and came to an arrangement. She stayed back in Dallas while he commuted for a year after he got an apartment. Then four months after his moving out to Hollywood, his agent asked him if he could do any Disney characters. His very first animated character audition was for Goofy. When he auditioned for the voice, he studied all the cartoons with Goofy in them, especially the ones released in the 1930s. He studied the hilarious laugh and the distinctive "gawrsh". He inherited the voice of Goofy (as well as Pluto and Horace Horsecollar), around the same time Tony Anselmo inherited Donald Duck, and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor did likewise for Mickey and Minnie Mouse, respectively.
Bill believes that cartoon voices are not about funny voices, but rather acting. His mentor was the late Daws Butler, the voice behind many of the old Hanna-Barbera characters. Daws put it in Bill's mind that when doing cartoon voices, you're not merely doing a funny voice, you're an actor and the acting is premier and that you have to think like the character you're doing and he is also best known as the voice of Goofy in A Goofy Movie in 1995 and as the voice of Goofy in the sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie in 2000.
Awesome in-depth interview:
Credit List:
| Animated American (2008, Live Action / Animated Short Film) | Bogie Bear | |
| Astro Boy (2003, Anime Series) | Detective Tawashi | |
| Baldur's Gate (1998, Video Game) | Brunos | |
| Irlentree | ||
| Yeslick | ||
| Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000, Video Game) | Demson | |
| Dermin | ||
| Garren Windspear | ||
| Beauty and the Beast (1991, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm (2006, Animated Film) | Tyler the Candlestick Maker | |
| Brother Bear (2003, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Bug's Life, A (1997, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars (2006, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars Mater-National (2007, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars Race-O-Rama (2009, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cars: The Video Game (2006, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cats Don't Dance (1997, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Crash Tag Team Racing (2005, Video Game) | Old Man | |
| Park Drones | ||
| Dead Rising (2006, Video Game) | (additional voices) | |
| Cletus Samson | ||
| Floyd Sanders | ||
| Jeff Meyers | ||
| Ryan LaRosa | ||
| Death Becomes Her (1992, Live Action Film) | (loop group) | |
| Destroy All Humans! (2005, Video Game) | Narrator | |
| Rural Male | ||
| Disney's House of Mouse (2001, Animated Series) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| Pluto | ||
| Practical Pig | ||
| Sheriff of Nottingham | ||
| Epic Mickey (2010, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| EverQuest II (2004, Video Game) | Bartender Berrystein | |
| Bhaelthrezish | ||
| Blight Sage Destroz | ||
| Commissioner Dogweed | ||
| Davish | ||
| Felderin Beddleknops | ||
| Generic Floating Skulls | ||
| Generic Ghosts | ||
| Generic Male Dwarf Enemy | ||
| Generic Male Gargoyle Enemy | ||
| Generic Water Elemental | ||
| Gren Stiles | ||
| Grozmag the Trainer | ||
| Kai Vhri Jah | ||
| Karg Icebear | ||
| Lodo Bightn | ||
| Pelle Shinkicker | ||
| Phen Dominson | ||
| Rukir Pineleaf | ||
| Sashra Thaltalis | ||
| Sir Thothur Dorarr | ||
| Tilzak N'Lim | ||
| Urban Ratonga Chef | ||
| Wiseman Oluran | ||
| Extremely Goofy Movie, An (2000, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Full Throttle (1995, Video Game) | Gas Guard Pilot | |
| Horace | ||
| News Anchorman | ||
| Goof Troop (1992, Animated Series) | Aunt Goofilla | |
| Goofy | ||
| Goofy Movie, A (1995, Animated Film) | Goofy | |
| Happily N'Ever After (2007, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2000, Animated Series) | Secret Squirrel | |
| Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2008, Video Game) | Secret Squirrel | |
| Higglytown Heroes (2004, Computer Animated Series) | Janitor Hero | |
| Jasper | ||
| Home on the Range (2004, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Horton Hears a Who! (2008, Computer Animated Film) | Willie Bear | |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Innoventions (Attraction) | Alec Tronic | |
| Iron Giant, The (1999, Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (Video Game) | King Gryph | |
| Weirdling Tradesman | ||
| Kingdom Hearts (2002, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts II (2005, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories (2008, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (2009, Video Game) | Goofy | |
| Horace Horsecollar | ||
| Lion King 1 1/2, The (2004, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Loonatics Unleashed (2005, Animated Series) | Mr. Leghorn | |
| Looney Tunes Racing (2000, Video Game) | Foghorn Leghorn | |
| Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006, Computer Animated Series) | Goofy | |
| Mickey's House of Villains (2002, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004, Computer Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | Goofy | |
| Pluto | ||
| Monsters, Inc. (2001, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Over the Hedge: The Video Game (2006, Video Game) | Lou | |
| Rottweiler | ||
| Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998, Animated Film (Direct-to-Video)) | (additional voices) | |
| Porco Rosso (1992, Anime Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Prince and the Pauper, The (1990, Animated Short) | Goofy | |
| Horace | ||
| Pluto | ||
| Weasel #1 | ||
| Robot Chicken (2005, Stop-Motion Animated Series) | Bugs Bunny | |
| Daffy Duck | ||
| Lots of Laughs Bear | ||
| Pubertis | ||
| Rover Dangerfield (1991, Animated Film) | Farm Voices | |
| Shrek 2 (2004, Computer Animated Film) | (ADR group) | |
| Space Jam (1996, Live Action /Animated Film) | Foghorn Leghorn | |
| Sylvester | ||
| Yosemite Sam | ||
| Surf's Up (2007, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Tales of Symphonia (2003, Video Game) | Dorr | |
| Toy Story (1995, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Toy Story 2 (1999, Computer Animated Film) | (additional voices) | |
| Ty the Tasmanian Tiger (2002, Video Game) | Captain Wedgewood | |
| Frill Lizard | ||
| Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue (2004, Video Game) | Captain Parrotbeard | |
| Johno | ||
| Squeaver | ||
| Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald (1998, Live-Action/Animated Series (Direct-to-Video)) | Knight #2 | |
| Mob Leader | ||
| What-A-Mess (1995, Animated Series) | (additional voices) | |
| Yakuza (2005, Video Game) | Date |
Voice Actor - Vincent Price
Known first as a film actor, writer, and gourmet, but he was also a voice actor. Vincent Price was born in St Louis, Missouri. He traveled through Europe, studied at Yale and became an actor. He made his screen debut in 1938, and after many minor roles, he began to perform in low-budget horror movies such as House of Wax (1953), achieving his first major success with House of Usher (1960). Known for his distinctive, low-pitched, creaky, atmospheric voice and his quizzical, mock-serious facial expressions, he went on to star in a series of acclaimed Gothic horror movies, such as Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).What most people don't know is that Tim Burton's very first film Vincent, has Vincent Price as the narrator's voice. It's a short 1982 stopmotion film about a boy named Young Vincent Malloy who dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
This began a long relationship between him and Tim Burton. His role in Edward Scissorhands (1990) was intended to be much larger, but since Price was very ill from emphysema and Parkinson's disease he was only able to appear in two scenes.
And of course, who can forget is unforgettable voice in Michael Jackson's Thriller song.
Other voice credits:
| 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, The (1985, Animated Series) | Vincent Van Ghoul | |
| CBS Radio Workshop, The (1956, Radio Series) | Narrator/Himself | |
| Saint John | ||
| Critic, The (1994, Animated Series) | Judge | |
| Escape (1947, Radio Series) | Roger | |
| Great Mouse Detective, The (1986, Animated Film) | Professor Ratigan | |
| Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, The (1986, Animated Series (Direct-to-Video)) | King Herod | |
| Haunted Mansion, The (1969, Attraction) | Narrator | |
| Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971, Stop Motion Animated TV Special) | January Q. Irontail | |
| I Go Pogo (1980, Stop-Motion Animated Film) | Deacon Mushrat | |
| Little Troll Prince, The (1987, Animated Special) | King Ulvik | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures (1990, Animated Series) | Narrator (Edgar Allan Poe) | |
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (1949, Radio Series) | Vincent Price |
October 02, 2011
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