When Candidates Attack

The most terrifying, and hilarious, thing I could find on the internets for y'all, courtesy of our homies at Pandemic. Man, looks like both Obama and Palin have that whole international diplomacy thing down.

Have a happy halloweeny of weeny goodness. Next week, nooze about a very cool event being held around and about by CHF head honcho Aaron Simpson, and some monster goodies just in time for that other holiday comin' up. Later!

Coldplay video by Miles Kalbach

Stop-mo animator Miles Kalbach just added this to his YouTube page days ago...a puppet animated video for ColdPlay's 'Lost' single, it's beautiful work. Check it out. And more to come!

Extra Life, Ishu Patel and other schtuffs...

O.k., so it's been a hairy week. Workin' on multiple games for multiple clients, extra hours to get thing ready for a new site we're launching at the day job...plus, I think I just pissed off my boss, and he doesn't piss off easily. Yeef.

So I'll leave you with a new toon and news. I created this for an event called Extra Life, happening tomorrow. It's a 24 hour gaming marathon with the proceeds going to a Texas children's hospital. Organized by Jeromy 'Doc' Adams, in honor of a girl named Tori (a good friend of Doc's) who died of a rare form of Leukemia early this year. Check out my toon, then check out the event.

Sending off this short and my 'First Time Out' short to KAFI, the Kalamazoo Animation Festival. They've recently opened their call for entries, so send 'em a DVD with yer stuffs!

Next, our homies over at MyToons are lookin' for spooky Halloween-a-mations, and yes, I'll be shooting them a link to both the Monsterjams. Get 'em your creepy toons soon, there's some good prizes to be had.

Finally, don't forget the special TAIS sponsored events happening this weekend featuring master animator (and all-round swell dude) Ishu Patel. Head over to the TAIS site for all them juicy details.

Right, that about wraps it up! I'll try to have some more Halloween inspired nooze and animation goodies for ya next week. Later, animators! (jebus, did I just write...)

My bad, here's some sexing Pandas

Yep, I know...blog postings have been thin on the ground as of late...my bad. Here's some pandas having the mad, mad, bum-bum sexings. (remarkable, it's laden with goofy inuendo, but never gets to filthy-town. Nice work) More to come this week.

Ishu Patel and Nuit Blanche

Apologies for the lack of posts...workin' on a lil' 30-second short, which I will do a production blog entry for, so's y'all can see hows I dunnit. Meanwhile, events unfold here at TAIS. We've got an upcoming screening, master class and animation workshop with NFB legend Ishu Patel...here's the poster. Don't delay on this one, folks...our master classes always fill up fast!



Next, Madi has put together a program of animated grooviness for the upcoming Nuit Blanche here in Toronto this Saturday, Oct. 4th. Animations by yours truly (my GUNBunnies!), some excellent student films, the latest from Craig Marshall and Marc Beurteaux...t'will be awesome. Event takes place at The Rhino, 1249 Queen West here in the Big Smoke. Here's the event poster...you can get a hi-res PDF on the TAIS site.



And once again, I'm finishing up a short project that has occupied my attention this last few weeks. Delivering it tonight to Doc Adams, podcaster and radio-man from Houston...it's for his charity event, Extra Life. As soon as I've got the final version, I'll post it for all to enjoy, along with some production notes, model sheets and sketches. More to come!

Art Jumble and Cake

Quick post today about a great site and an upcoming comic anthology release. Art Jumble is, as described by them what runs it "...a weekly drawing community that supports illustration, comics and animation. Each Monday a topic is announced and any member can submit a piece about that topic. Members who post are the sole authors of their work and have all rights to their own pieces."

Sounds all lovely n' hippy-dippy, no? Hang on, there's roolz in them there blogs.

1) The piece being posted can be any phase of the piece (a sketch to a completed piece).

2) Keep it clean. Some members have children that love to look at all the fun illustrations. No nudity or anything that would offend someone. (baby bigfoot genitalia notwithstanding-tdog)

3) Critiquing someones piece, if you don't have something nice to say please keep it to yourself.

4) If you've posted already and would like to update that same art - please do not post it again - please update the post that you've already posted.

5) Please submit your piece for the current week before or on Sunday, for new topics are announced on Monday's.

Here's some samples from fellow Splashworker Eric Zermeno, Gary Ham (who'd like you to know it's Talk like a Pirate Day!) and the anatomically adorable Beatriz Iglesias...in that order.






Of course, I've gone and added 'em to the Links of Doom! Check 'em out, mebbe join the club if ya wanna. Meanwhile, Eric and his Art Jumble homies are busy at work on Cake Anthology vol. 2, which promises to be some good comic eatin'. Here's a link to vol. 1...go get a copy. And keep a few shillings aside to pick up Vol. 2...should be out just in time for Xmas. More to come!

Mike Geiger gets spooky on yer ass...County Ghost

Keeping up with his tradition of great characters and terrifically timed animation coupled with a swingin' score, Mike Geiger (Monsterjammer extraordinaire) has just premiered COUNTY GHOST, his new web series. You can watch the whole thang above, and be sure to drop by his YouTube page of Youtubeyness for more animated schtuffs of similar high quality. Special thanks to Aaron Simpson over at Cold Hard Flash for that there head's up.