I recently animated an opening sequence for a website i'm not allowed to name because my site ranks too highly on Google. (...)
The intro was created in Flash, combined with Illustrator and Photoshop and ties in with the award winning 'Splash' commercials which appeared on Australian TV earlier in the year.
I'm sure you can figure out which one it is though and go there to check out my intro.

Tags: animation, flash

Anarchist's Guild Social Committee is a sketch comedy group here in Melbourne, Australia. Each month they write, rehearse and perform a brand new show. For the last show, they wanted a short animation to tie in with one of their live sketches. The sketch was titled "Moments in history where your hipster cred does you no good" and was set at Gallipoli during WW1. In part of the sketch, a soldier tells the hipster that all he wanted to do was become a teacher, passing on knowledge to the children. The hipster replies that all he wanted to do was create a short indie music video in which a cat and a dog go to buy a waistcoat... and the cat has a fringe.

Hence the following animation.....
This was done in under two weeks (in amongst my full time job and other freelance work - which is why it becomes stills at some points) and Lachlan gave me a hand with putting bits of it together.

Tags: Anarchist's Guild Social Committee, animation

I just realised I forgot to post this! Secret Handshake in September was themed Time Travel and Lachlan and I made a stop motion film in the style of A Town Called Panic. (If you've never seen it before, check out an episode here -http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HlS9T1xEd2s)
This is a lesson on how not to make a stop motion - our base was a table that moved everytime we touched it, the camera didn't have a remote so it moved everytime we took a photo... etc etc. We didn't care about all this though - we were just having fun! The sound track was us turning on the Voiceover feature in Final Cut Pro and yelling things into my laptop's inbuilt mic.

Check it out!

Tags: secret handshake, animation, ANIMATION CLUB!!!

Another quick look at the cat and dog animation. It's almost done! Luckily too, cause it's being shown this weekend.... If you want to come check it out, it'll be part of THIS SUNDAY'S Anarchist Guild Social Committee show - Bella Union Bar, Trades Hall, Melbourne.
Rock and Roll!!!

Tags: Anarchist's Guild Social Committee, animation

I'm working on an animation for the Anarchist's Guild Social Committee - a sketch comedy group here in Melbourne. The challenge is to make the most indie film ever made - therefore it's an animation where a cat (with a fringe) and a dog buy a waistcoat - all to the music of Elliott Smith. OW! Indie as! Here's a quick sketch of the cat in question.

Tags: animation, Anarchist's Guild Social Committee