Sebastien

Neat. Goeblins does it again. 'Sebastien' features a neat little guy perfecting the art of the paper plane. Simple and sweet with Goeblins' usual level of excellence.

Staines Down Drains clip

Here's the opening sequence to the show "Staines Down Drains", a program that I worked on in 2006. Enjoy!

Kappa Mikey? What the hell?

In what appears to be the beginning of a tradition of posting things about bad animation, here is something I happened to catch on TV today: Kappa Mikey. It was terrible, and I may actually be generous in that evaluation.

Premise and Humour: The premise of the show is that an American boy has won a competition to be a character in a Japanese show, and plays the character Kappa Mikey in the fictional show LilyMu. Any attempted humour is derived from parody and satire of Japaneses culture vs American culture, something that HiHi Puffy AmiYumi succeeded at but this show... miserably failed or failed miserably.

Animation: There is no animation. No more than an animatic. The whole thing is nothing but a series of short loops and key poses with "swish" sound effects everytime a character switches to a new pose. The designs are poor- "anime" characters look like poor fanart while "american" toons have no personality.


Really, I felt I was watching a terrible terrible fan-made web cartoon. I know this is probably more a case of a low, low budget but this just wasn't the quality I would expect to see on TV.

Colin's Bear Animation

I'm quite glad I did not go to this school if this is all they managed to teach... :)

Use your lightening bolt...

... and win the treasure!

It's been a while...

.. but I'm back. For the past 8 months or so, I've been working on the NZ animated TV comedy "Bro'Town" at various stages in animation, scanning, Ink+Paint, and compositing. It's been quite an experience. Hopefully I'll be able to get back on track with this. In the meantime, here's a walkcycle I finished this afternoon :)

28 Principles of Animation

Apologies to all. I've been neglecting this blog. A bit of doodling, a few walkcycles... and a lot of time spent revisiting old RPGs :)

Animation news and other assorted things of interest sort of fell under the radar a bit. While 'catching up' on things, I came across this over at AnimationBlog: The 28 Principles of Animation. A little light reading for y'all while I'm mucking about here.