EXCITING NEWS!
My Professional stomping grounds, Six Point Harness, has joined forces with Titmouse to bring you a brand new youtube cartoon channel! For the time being we’re whetting your appetites with this clip of Chris and Brendan dousing each other in cartoon vomit (Please to be enjoying my rendition of the channel logo in Nickelodeon-esque cartoon upchuck), but if you subscribe now you’ll be in the front row for all the fun things to come down the road! We’ll also keep people posted over on Facebook, if that’s more your thang.
This has been in the pipeline for a long time and it’s really exciting to finally see it launch! I hope everyone enjoys our internet cartoonsmithing!
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, GUYS
The folks following me here on Tumblr may or may not know that I work at Six Point Harness animation studio (the folks behind Nickelodeon’s El Tigre, MTV’s Good Vibes, The Drawn Together movie, and more). And you may or may not know that Six Point is home to Ed Skudder and Zack Keller, creators of the Mondo series, Dick Figures. You probably remember it from posting animated gifs of the characters doing funny things on your tumblrs a lot.
The style of Dick Figures is very much about using simple character designs to allow animation quality you wouldn’t normally be able to pull off with a youtube series budget. The people here work very hard on it, and have really made something to be proud of.
Some fans have expressed interest in a Dick Figures movie, so Ed and Zack have decided to take it to kickstarter. Crowd sourcing the movie like this means that they would be able to make it their way, without having to rely on producers who would turn the process into a matter of committee approval and quite likely turn it into something completely different than the creators envision.
Funding this project would be amazing, it would completely revolutionize the options available for the creators of animated features in this day and age.
The kickstarter is asking for $250,000 for a half-hour special, but if we make it to $700,000, we can produce a full hour and a half feature film. Contributing to this kickstarter, or even just spreading the word along means you are personally supporting the livelihood of every person in our studio.
And I cannot stress how much that means to all of us.
Okay, I figure it’s time to finally post this. My thesis film for Sheridan, Worst in Show. Hope everyone enjoys it a little bit!
really cute omg
I enjoyed this.
Afternoon Matinee of the Day: The controversial documentary The Sweatbox, filmed by Sting’s wife Trudie Styler as part of a deal to feature her husband’s songs in the animated feature Kingdom of the Sun, has spent the last 10 years locked up deep inside Disney’s dungeons until it suddenly made its way online yesterday.
Never officially released in any form due to its less-than-flattering behind-the-scenes footage, the film follows the troubled production of what would eventually become The Emperor’s New Groove.
On the significance of The Sweatbox, Cartoon Brew says: “If any questions remain about why Disney fizzled out creatively and surrendered its feature animation crown to Pixar and DreamWorks, this film will answer them.”
Watch it while you can.
[cartoonbrew.]
Reblogging for all my animation comrades.
(Source: thedailywhat)
