This Balanced Breakfast
An Apple Cinnamon Cheerios commercial, produced at Colossal Pictures in 1992.
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STARTOONS
Before becoming coming a Saturday morning cartoon powerhouse, the STARTOONS studio was briefly located in downtown Chicago, where I worked for them one summer.
READ MORE..TUNNELS title Sequence
Animation tends to be an endless discussion until the money runs out, so I’m fond of this kooky title sequence for “とんねるずのみなさんのおかげでした” where there was no discussion at all.
READ MORE..Journeyman
Early years working in Sydney animation were the apprenticeship that led to a long career.
READ MORE..Channel-V
Sometimes the budgets & schedules were too restrictive to make anything good, but a lot was learned during fast & cheap experimentation.
READ MORE..RIFFS “Hip Hop”
The great thing about directing an animated commercial was designing characters, storyboard, layouts and animation too.
READ MORE..SPACE FLiK: The Corrector’s Cut
SPACE FLiK: A director’s cut of the super-8 animated film, a STAR WARS parody influenced by MAD MAGAZINE, made when I was 16.
READ MORE..Revolver
REVOLVER (directed by Jonas Odell, Stig Bergqvist, Marti Ekstrand and Lars Ohlson) is one of my favourite animated shorts ever.
READ MORE..Animation inspiration
My latest way to waste time online is called YouTube. Apart from avoiding work by watching stupid pet tricks I have managed to find some great animation on there, so I can safely pass off at least some my time wasting as “research”. Qualifying as both a stupid pet trick AND funny animation is Dog … Read more
ROBOT animated shorts
A while ago, my pals at HALO PICTURES in Sydney were making some CG models of ROCKET RABBIT and the BLUDGEONATOR, with a view to making an animated short.