rumpus background

i've got a new background for rumpus, its an adaptation of an old one but there's still a few things that need doing to it. here it is presented in glorious black and white, just for no reason especially.

The New Adventures of Bertram Fiddle

Here's a little Bertram Fiddle test me and Seb stitched together from archive animation footage. Full episodes on their way. probably.

when your cartoons have more of a life than you do

here's the little walking to the pub man. turns out he was walking to the Big Chill where he spent the weekend dancing at the Disco Shed.

I didn't go.

credit made clearer

been working at Wonky for quite a while now on various projects - here's something i animated for their Capitol One Credit Made Clearer campaign. It's got a little superhero in it and everything. Directed by Miki Cash and designed by Maria Lee

Upfest!

Spent Saturday at Upfest at the Tobacco Factory, me and Seb got to sit in the illustration room upstairs and do some live animation. 6 hours to move stuff about a bit

perhaps we should have planned it a bit better but it was good fun anyway and there was some lovely illustration going on all around us.

things get less animated towards the end, as we started drinking after lunch.

thanks very much to Dave Bain for letting us join the illustration room for the day!

walking to the pub again

Here's the little chap from earlier. thought he deserved a background, its a bit run-down but he's happy

hotels.com animatic

Recently had a stint at Aardman making storyboards in Flash for some Rich Webber directed Hotels.com commercials. it was good

Here's the first animatic now



and here's the final ad

Aardman Flipnote animations

Here's a couple of little animations drawn into Flipnote on the Nintendo DSi. They were made before christmas at Aardman, directed by Tim Ruffle, to advertise the Legend of Zelda game. It's wierd spending a few weeks drawing things on a very very tiny screen with a very very tiny pen but quite good fun in a strange kind of way.

My favourite bit was recording the sound effects by going "3..2..1..go" and holding the DS near a speaker while the sound man presses play on his computer.

little bit of animation

no work on Rumpus for a long time. so here's some old animation instead of the little chap spotting a pretty butterfly

little bit of Rumpus from Rumpus tests on Vimeo.

julian wins massive award!

no he doesn't, don't be ridiculous.





But he did get a special little commendation, more of a mention really, at Animated Exeter's Screen Out Loud event

which is as good as it's going to get!




Very big congratulations to Emma who did actually win a Massive Award and who won the bloody Screen Out Loud thing too!

new background

got a new background done - where the blue people live.
got Seb to do all the hard work again - its only changed a little bit

trees

its a small row of trees.

can't...stop...doing....run cycles

new backgrounds

Started work on Rumpus again. Here's a new background, done with the expert help of Seb

this is what happened first -















to the Spabbyland version -

to the final version -

and thats that

walking back from the pub

always seem to be doing walk cycles, me.

who's he? what's he up to?

don't know. not a lot.

gencat ad

Here's an ad i've recently been working on at Aardman. There's 5 of them altogether and they've been turning up on the blogs of Felix, Robin and Spencer so i thought i'd put my favourite up too.

This ones about recycling if you don't understand Spanish.

I did storyboard and block through, Tom Evans animated, Spencer Cross After Effectsed and Tim Ruffle directed.



Here's another one - same bunch of people, animated by me and Tom - use public transport!

alex lupo music showreel

Alex, the Rumpus (and many other things) musician, now has his music showreel up on youtube. have a look.

julian sweeney and his teeny weeny genie

sc01 unused animation test

went and recorded some music yesterday which was great. its been so long since starting and recording that i've changed a load of stuff - like this original start to the film below - its not there anymore. so its here instead.

more stills

Rumpus really is going very very slowly. got some more pics from it though.

Julian

an animation test for a collaboration project between me and Seb from Spabbyland about a miserable little chap and his genie

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

suburban myths on 4mations

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 little 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.