Unproductive interlude

Nobody's going to understand what the holy hell I'm talking about, but it really doesn't matter, it's awesome. There's this loopy British kids' show that I kind of LOVE called "Young Dracula." It's the story of how the Dracula family moves to a modern-day English town, Stokely. (...Not Stokley.)
Somebody went and combined Young Dracula with the title song to a somewhat similarly themed show from back in the day, and all I can say is, IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE.

Bumper ROUGH

The final assignment of digital 2D-animating, a tv-station bumper. AARGH still in progress!! :X If you wanna see, the password's the land I come from (capitalize the first letter) ;]


...Same goes for the version with different music that I have on Vimeo.

Thank you to Rosy and Joe for their voices!

Lots of life. And: I would to-tal-ly watch this movie.

Enjoying myself at life drawing. I had the zen-ningest flow last week, it was just swish, swish swish.
Unshaded croqs are some of my favourite things ever, yet something that probably wouldn't end up in my portfolio, so that's the main reason I always post those here so much.






The Tonight Show with CONAN 's Twitter Tracker is really really making me want to consider actually joining Twitter, OH YEAH OH YEEAAAH! :x I'd probably just tweet about life drawing :P how tewwibly intewesting.
If Carl Hiaasen joins Twitter, somebody alert me so I can join fast as lightning. (As I'm writing this he's not on it yet. I've checked.) I'm on a huge Hiaasen-kick right now - meaning, more so than usual. Is Don Rosa on Twitter? Is Jasper Fforde? I have to do some research on this.

Yes, I would to-tal-ly watch... Milkyrie. Even just for the wigs!!

ANYWAAYYYY...

Art later! For now, if I know anything about the kind of people I know, my friends will enjoy this. A character based stand up -bit by Andrew Daly (Reno 911!, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, Eastbound & Down etc.) appearing as "Bang Bang Ellington."

Vid's in two parts -- if you only have time for one, watch the second one! Oh, and [EXPLICIT]

1/2


2/2

"I wonder if it would have anything to do with that guy that I met PROBABLY NOT"

Obviously UCB has been operational for a long time so you probably know about them already, but I only just got on it, so, just in case: check out their website for further superb weirdertainment :D

"All right. The boss is finally having phones installed."

Here's my short film from directing class. I just added the end credits that I was set on but didn't have the time to add for class today :]
It's theoretically a spoof on Big Trouble in Little China, but actually more like an excuse for me and my hard-working classmate draftees to have fun and go crazy. I really appreciate you guys being so generous with your free time and acting in this.



Ok, not the greatest video quality but whatever...
If you're wondering what music I used (because I used too much to bother writing it all in the end credits):

The "Oriental theme" in the beginning is from a royalty free wav site, http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/

The "gang fight" song is Mutherfuker by Beck

The "fight with Lo Pan" song is Hocus Pocus by Focus (hee!)

ALL other music is nabbed from the soundtrack of an awesome Britcom called Green Wing.

[EDIT: I got bored of all my technical difficulties trying to get the bloopers presentable, and I don't wanna trek to school again to use editing programs. Sorry, you'll just have to live with the immense disappointment....]

Hey, don't clear my desk!

I can't be there on the first two days of school. :(
Enjoy your brief respite, classmates. I MISS SCHOOL. (Wow, I really just wrote that didn't I?) AND I MISS YOU. (Wow, etc.)

Have a video in the meantime.

Sounds Good To Me: Remastering The Sting



It's about a crucial part of filmmaking that's sometimes overlooked by the audience: sound design.

There's no explanation

A final assignment animation by Kendall, inspired by (=ripped off off) Chelsea.



Voice cast: Joe as Captain Aubrey (by way of JFK?), me as one-armed Blakeney.

Hotchie motchie!

Needed an established character for our final assignment before Christmas. Another difficult choice, but this time my pick is Jay Sherman from The Critic :D
I might be adding to this post to gather references.




Episode 2x01 ("Sherman, Woman and Child")


Part 1 of ep 1x09 ("L.A. Jay")


"Doctor Jay" (Features an elephant walk, among others)

I just love saying it

"OHHH SHI-YAH! You make me feel like a schoolgirl again!"
That's the only part you really need to hear.

(You're bound to hear it from me at some point whether you watch the clip or not, so ...I guess that means you don't need to watch it. Talked myself into a crappy corner!)
Maya Rudolph is one of the lights of my life.
The clip is on YouTube too, but They're not letting people embed it! :C

Somebody very literal-minded (I love them) wrote a new version of a-ha's "Take On Me" that actually fits the music video:



"I'm gonna kick some a** with my own pipe wrench..."

Meanwhile, sunglasses continue to epitomise Cool, this time in the world of mathematics.

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Some people could be under the impression that I have something against Shia L. because I make fun of him at every opportunity IRL, but they'd be dead wrong. He's likeable, and yes he manages comedy, and something about him just invites ridicule (I mean, even when he's not getting arrested). Which are awesome traits in a celebrity. Imagine you cast him in a remake of Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- you can see he would obviously be Cameron instead of Ferris, right? And Cameron is ♥.

(Not that I want a remake.)

Just a footnote (WATCH THIS OR I'LL KILL YOU WITH A TRAY)

More on Reepicheep: he will be voiced by Eddie Izzard. Adoration :D

I promised I wouldn't start down this spiralling Viral Path, but this video is the most adoration I have experienced in weeks, so I have to spread it for the benefit of Star Wars fans everywhere. (You've seen it before? Well watch it again.)
Eddie Izzard's stand-up skit "Death Star canteen" as an ingenious Lego animation.



"Death by tray it shall be!"