Mike Geiger's Olympic Spirit

New one from Mike Geiger, this time it's a take on the whole Olympic funding thing. I think what Mike has to say here is pretty evident in the animation. Actually, this nicely animated piece of social disturbance was created in conjunction with CITIZENShift, "a National Film Board of Canada website dedicated to citizen engagement and social change." Nice to see the NFB continues to give citizens a voice...written, spoken, filmed or in this case, animated. Good on ya!

Either way, it's typical Geiger goofiness, and nicely done. Check out Mike's other animations on his YouTube page, and check out CITIZENShift, see if you want to contribute. More to come!

UPDATE- Fergot, check out Mike's Blog as well!

8 Bit Pwny Club

Some inspired 8-bit flavoured insanity from the fellows at Weebl's Stuff. Really love the shaky cam and the site of old video game characters chatting on a couch. Enjoy!

LazyBoy's Demo is Reel...groovy.

Just perusin' my YouTube subscriptions, and noticed that my man LazyBoy (a.k.a. Lazy Muffin, a.k.a. Israeli animator and sick phoink Yotam Perel) has posted a new demo reel, showcasing his many animated transgressions. Recently, LazyBoy had a hit on his hands, garnering a whole bunch of views on hooligan animation site Newgrounds for a piece he did based on pervy podcast The Distorted View Show. Good on ya, ya lazy bastard. Right now, he's havin' to deal with his upcoming compulsory service in the IDF...so all y'all what was 10 minutes late cuz of the traffics this morning, quit yer whinin'. More to come.

Splashworks promo vid

Fer all y'all wondering what this pooch does for a day job (yeah, you 3 guys), here's a promo vid featuring screens and sample gameplay from some of our games. A lil' background; Splashworks.com has been around since '96, and was formed by a trio of buddies fresh from the CD-Rom wars who wanted to make games where there was a lil' more attention paid to quality, and a lil' less paid to the bottom line (and abusing your Dilberted employees...go read 'Microserfs' or 'JPod', you'll get the picture). Worked on the animation and interfaces for quite a few of these, the most notable being the skateboarding and parkour games. And now, we'se branching into Iphone apps! Lotta fun, and it keeps me in pencils and pixels. Enjoy. Oh, and if you like what ya see, go play sumpin'...is all free, baby. Later!

Get yer bran

Video from nutty nutbars The Bran Flakes. Animated in the Flash by Susan DeLint, link courtesy of our homey Fred. Enjoy.

Skunk Fu for You!

Yeah, I know Aaron's covered this stuff, but I only just got my Skunk Fu DVD in the mail from the Amazon, and I've become a fan. Really lovin' the 'no line' style...not only calligraphic, but also frees up time to focus on moving the characters rather than fretting about finessing line weights n' stuff. These two cycles courtesy of Alessandra Sorrentino...go check out her YouTube page for more goodness.

Right, off for the weekend...mebbe this ol' pooch'll have a surprise or two for y'all next week. Cheers!

Cold Hard Flash: Top 10 Flash Cartoons

Aaron Simpson and a cadre of his animation homies have got together and came up with a list of what they consider the best o' the best of flash animated films on them there interwebnets, and they're all available to view on the Cold Hard Flash site. Along with the shorts themselves, Aaron's serving up in-depth interviews with the creators. Go, watch, learn, enjoy. And big kudos to MyToons for continuing to support independent animation on the web!