Saturday, March 29, 2008

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Brain Melt

A 12 page booklet is in the works for an upcoming LP (the title of this post should give a hint). This is a detail of a page of inks that are being done right now. Should be interesting to see how this turns out, and, looking forward to hearing the record as well.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Punkabilly Mix!


Can Be Heard HERE!
Stream it HERE!

Love Me- The Phantom
Rubber Love- Demented Are Go!
I Knew Sky- The Golden Horde
Honeymoon In Hell- The Monsters
The Day The Sun Burned Down- The Escalators
Nobleman- the Meantraitors
Rumble In The Jungle- Rochee & The Sarnos
Love Bites- The Sharks
Wicked Whiskey- Stray Cats
Green Fuz- The Cramps
F___ Off Status Quo- King Kurt
Wicked Witch- Mad Sin
Jack On Fire- Gun Club
No More Hot Dogs- Hasil Adkins
Snows On Friday- Kemo Sabe
Malaquena- Calavera

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

Mask keyframes...


This shot that was filmed against green board, that didn't quite key out as well as it should've, needed to be cut out frame by frame. This was a hand that was shaking frantically, so, you can imagine the teduim involved in something like this.

If you put on some good music, have coffee close if it's late,it isn't too bad. Hopefully when the finished piece is posted, you won't even be able to recognize it.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Big Dog

"Watch the response at 21 seconds (it's just so "natural" looking) and the dexterity at 50 seconds. I'm curious as to how it would react to a more severe avalanche than they give it at 1:15 - of course, they don't include any failures in the videos" -Pete

Percee P - Put it on the Line

I'm not sure what movie this footage is taken from, but I'd be curious to know. It almost looks like a documentary. Mostly cut together with some performance shots of lyrical legend, Percee P.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Enough...

Has been written about Chris Ware (including on here), but, this animated piece he created for This American Life is worth noting:

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Golden Ticket Update

We're still working on the animation on some of the key shots. The live action footage has been shot, and, compositing has started. Some of the footage seems to need some color correction, which I'll leave to the experts.

We're trying out all sorts of methods in getting some life-like movement (the animation in this video resembles a sketchbook come to life). There's been a ton of stock video used for some of the referencing in this. Hopefully it'll give this the unique look that we're shooting for.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Greedy Hen

Had some Sydney folks stay at the house for the weekend, most of whom were on they're way to Austin. One of which was part of a Sydney based design collective know as Greedy Hen. The work is mostly collage with some custom illustration:

Most of the work I've seen them do is for music packaging , and some live installation. This music video by the Panics has their work in the background (that's actually being placed in the shots by the artists themselves.

They have a new website in the works as well that's worth looking out for.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Prints

Here's a couple of the prints that've been made over the years. Mostly as gifts, but, some have been commissioned. Usually I work with a still from a video, but, sometimes, the image is custom, which is a PhotoShop file, that's printed hi-res. And the foreground imagery is EPS. That gets printed on acetate, and, the back is painted with an opaque white, giving it an 'animation cell' look.



Sunday, March 2, 2008

Sleeveface

It's a pretty simple concept involving LP covers and a bit of costumery. These guys have had this site running a while, and we decided to submit a few pics of our own.





J