Julian

nothing Rumpus related has happened for ages now - need to concentrate on all the music before any more animation can start so need to get together for a couple of days in the studio with Musical Alex.

so anyway, here's a secret little thing i've been working on with Seb from Spabbyland. its not very secret now though. but it sort of is, cos this is just an animation test to get to know the best way to move the characters about. Voices by Louis Jones and Tom Parkinson.

The little blue chap is Julian's best friend, he's a Genie. in case you were wondering.

octopus

here's a happy, if slightly evil, looking octopus that i made. i quite like him, wonder if i can crowbar him into the film somewhere.

ringbinders

recently been working as animation goblin on Ringbinders for Aardman and Comedy Demon. Directed by Tom Parkinson who made the Adventures of Jeffrey!

Comedy Demon's embedding thing doesn't work for me properly and there's also an Alfa Romeo advert attached which i'm not a massive fan of. so here's the trailer instead, which i had almost nothing to do with. You can watch the film here though if you like - http://www.comedydemon.com/video/?vid=11491

by the way, notice the lovely title music done by Rumpus' very own Alex Lupo!

stills

might be a bit soon as there's another 4 and half minutes of animation to do yet but here's a couple of pics of the first section of film

toys!!

we've all got toys these days and now i'm no different! here's two, sat on some bricks in my garden, that were very kindly made for me by Atsuko and it wasn't even my birthday. and here's some that she made for her hubby Seb.

running

he's running a bit more towards us now, other than that almost the same as him running from the side.

and some more

more board pics

not put anything up for ages so here's some board pics from my original pitch, they don't make an awful lot of sense. i've got rid of those several hundred butterflies now, there's only one left.

suburban myths episode 4

Jilted Janet's now up at 4mations.tv

they're not too bad considering they were both made within 3 weeks from storyboards to final renders, but i do sometimes wonder how it would have been to have spent, i don't know, maybe 4 weeks to make them both. that would have been lovely.

suburban myths on 4mations

my first Suburban Myths short "Car jack" is up at 4mations now, got another one to go up, probably next monday. This has nothing to do with Rumpus but neither did them pictures of my cat earlier

music by Alex - the Rumpus musician too

new background again

this is where the blue ones live

new background

just put together a couple of proper backgrounds recently - here's one of them - the Red's village

frogs

some shots from the animatic

a few pictures from the animatic. all done very roughly because i'll most likely be animating it all myself

can't get any work done. Part 2

back to work

had a few weeks away from Rumpus whilst making a couple of shorts at Wonky Films for the 4mations website. it was good fun, they'll be online in November. the series is called Suburban Myths by the way. Miki Cash from Wonky directed the first two and i did the second two.

but back to Rumpus now. Animatic's gone to Alex the musician and i'm going to draw some backgrounds for a few weeks - hopefully with the help of Seb.

and here's a little running monster.

nasty looking birds

another animation test

these are excitable little chaps

pretty butterfly

he causes all kinds of trouble, this one

can't get any work done

big scary fish

animation tests

a bit of movement from me monsters

final monster designs

The Reds -

The Blues -

mentioned on Cold Hard Flash

and i'm very very excited about it thanks very much

http://coldhardflash.com/2008/07/woods-rumpus-monster-on-rampage.html

rumpus in new york!

the big blue monster causing trouble on holiday

music

music for the film is being done by Alex Lupo - you can hear some of his previous animation music work here -
http://youtube.com/user/Webblie
http://www.jellybeats.com/
and here -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDZRCDOX2G4
and his band are here -
http://www.babyhead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
and this is a picture he drew once -

more early animation tests

more monster designs that never got used!

old animation test

an old animation test - this creature here also bears no resemblance to them now. there's a few of these knocking about, really should finalise some designs before getting excited and animating them in future

some rough monster designs....

a lot of monsters were drawn and none of them really bear any resemblance to how they are now

rumpus!

Rumpus is a 5 minute musical film about 2 tribes of monsters who don't get on very well. this is what they used to look like but they've changed a little bit now. I'm going to be working on it for bloody ages and thought a blog might provide some gentle encouragement. designs, boards and animation tests will pop up here every now and then.

Louis Jones did the hard work on this background. i drew him a rubbish rough picture and he made it look lovely. sometimes i pretend i did it all.