WTFs, LOLs and ROFLs are being banded around like nobody’s business as the trailer for All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) gets featured on YouTube. That makes two features in two weeks! If you can’t see it being featured, that because it’s featured ‘Globally’ and not in Britain… You’ll have to ask YouTube how that one works.
The trailer does feature the opening score to Forest Gump. That was done as a last minute choice as things had got stuck with my sound designer at the time and the music does actually suit quite nicely. So, he next thing will be to get a lovely sound designer onboard and get all that sorted out.
O.K. Its the video wall again. Woop and indeed Di Doop.
‘Grey’ by Ivan Rusev. There’s no real nitty gritty details about this guy which is shame. Think he’s Canadian… or Bulgarian. This has really inspired me. The way that everything’s drawn and animated finally makes me shake off all the snobbishness I picked up studying animation and the world of Richard Williams. The thing about Flash animation it really helps retain styles of illustration that would normally be deemed ‘incorrect’ in terms of it being a 3D object. It also means you just get to spend more time worrying about the most important thing, the story! So thanks, this has really given me a kick up the bum. But remember kids, Flash can make you lazy.
Fight scene from the undefendable, ‘Undefeatable’. If we’re going to be naming and shaming, ‘Godfrey Ho’ directed it. In the words of the YouTubian who posted it “This fight is complete with knife licking, shirt tearing, gratuitous shirtlessness.” I think special thanks to all the cast involved is needed too. “Yeah. See yer.”
Food Fight by Stefan Nadelman of Tourist Pictures. Brilliant video, racking up well over 3million on YouTube so far. Its a food reinactment of the major wars of the last century so it’s meant to be sobering I guess, but funny, ‘cos it’s food. Here’s more details about it.
Hogan Knows Depression by WTF-TV for Comedy.com (expensive domain name for sure). It’s funny and it’s like something we would make, but I get annoyed by the faceless ‘Blam!’ logos they put on these. It’s all about the brand, and that’s just a smiley face. How am I meant to interact with that?
David Cowles does animation too, but I’m always impressed when someone can make a representation of The Beatles that stands out against the rest. David’s illustration style obvously has a lot of Picasso influence and it’s interesting to see how that converts into very commercial caricature. I’m dissapointed that this style hasn’t really carried through into his animation though, it’d look great! There’s no local links or anything, I just like.
Found out that Aaron Simpson of ‘Cold Hard Flash’ fame has spotted us a couple of times on his new site ‘Line Boil’, which is nice. It’s also nice to see that Aaron has set up the new site to cover the world of animation outside of Flash. With the rise the YouTube generation, Flash animation’s web presence is in direct competition with every other form of video. So it’s good to see him moving with the times whilst still providing an excellent site that nurishes Flash animators’ knowledge and skills.
The Black Hole by Phil Williams & Olly Sampson - Great film that won the Virgin Media Shorts competition recntly. Perfect, short premise for a quirky film. Love the character development, without any words.
Crime Fighter by Robot Chicken – Robot Chicken is an ‘Adult Swim‘ program strangely co-created by Seth Green of Austin Powers (sort of) fame.
Don’t tend to go for satire as it dates very quickly, but this is just a very nice, just sarcastic enough quick fire of events from ITN.
Cyriak’s shouldn’t be down at the bottom there. Doing very well for himself at the moment making relatively low tech, hypnotic, GIF avatar-based, repulsive, mahem animations. Just the trick.
Wowzers!, Zoiks! and indeed Blimey! ‘DON’T TOUCH‘ got featured on YouTube! Considering I can’t stand watching the bugger any more I’m quite proud. I suppose it’s appropriate to show you it again… as if it’ll look any different featured. *edit – Thought I’d give you the new HD version to oggle at.
For some other blogs on Gigbeth (and a lovely plug for my effort) see Digbeth is Good and have a mooch for other Digbeth-related goodies while you’re there.
Firstly, following up from the Birmingham Filmmakers meet up, we took things a bit further. So now we have Film Forum West Midlands! Subcribe via emails or RSS and get any of the latest on news, opportunities, collaborations and chances to meet your fellow filmmakers.
Next, St Patrick’s Festival is finally back online in the form of stpatricksbirmingham.com. We’ll be looking to get a dedicated volunteer blogger for it soon, and get some much needed updates on there.
Louis also was commissioned to design sexypennys.com, which is now being built.
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