Feb
20
2006
Pod Job Jack
‘Odd Job Jack,’ has a podcast! Okay, wait - I’ll back up. 
‘Odd Job Jack’ is a Flash-animated series emanating out of Smiley Guy Studios in Toronto, Canada and playing on The Comedy Network. The features Jack, a 25-year old who can’t seem to land a steady job. He works for a temp agency, Odd Jobs Unlimited, where Jack finds limited success.
The show boasts a very evolved web-presence, and now they’ve got a blog and a podcast. Below is clip from season 3.
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February 22nd, 2006 at 7:24 pm
yeech.It’s puppet-y shows like that that give flash a bad name.Im sure its funny in a stoner way, but it’s fugly.Why can’t primetime be beautiful?!
February 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 am
Hi,
I work on the show, and our look continually evolves. We are currently working on season 3 and it looks great! Lots of very strong posing and less puppeting (for those of you like ennis who know what that means).
By the way, we are thinking of making our library of background images and puppets available for free to flash animators all around the world when we launch the new season this summer. We will post on our blog when we do.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Odd Job Jack is back for Season 3!
And so is the Odd Job Jack temp challenge ………
http://www.oddjobjack.com/index.php?referrerid=9980
July 31st, 2006 at 10:43 pm
We have released all files from this season under a creative commons license.
Our first of 13 torrents has been seeding all week and now the 2nd episode’s torrent is up via a very high speed seed here:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-2-art.torrent
Our effort has had lots of coverage this week:
Front page of digg.com twice!
http://digg.com/television/Animated_Series_Puts_All_Assets_Under_Creative_Commons_License
BoingBoing
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/26/animated_series_puts.html
Front page of the creative commons
http://creativecommons.org/
Drawn.ca
http://drawn.ca/2006/07/24/freejack-odd-job-jack-and-creative-commons/
August 8th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
By the way episodes 1, 2, and 3 are now up with a high speed seed.
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-1-art.torrent
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-2-art.torrent
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-3-art.torrent
We also just put up a sample flash movie, two video tutorials, 23 animation guides and 13 interviews with our production team:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php?sec=3
If you bother to register then you are in a draw for a play station 3. How much better does it get than this?
Go Odd Job Jack, go freejack.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Torrents 4 and 5 are now up:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-4-art.torrent
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-episode-5-art.torrent
October 25th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
Hi. Thanks for the support of Odd Job Jack’s Freejack program. We just released a single torrent containing all 13 Freejack archives. Think of it as a full set.
Download it here:
http://www.legaltorrents.com/bit/odd-job-jack-compilation.torrent
This archive contains master flash assets from 13 episodes including:
- 1416 characters
- 914 props
- 2762 cameras
You can browse all the files before downloading the torrent:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php?sec=2
Check out our 39 production interviews, videos, worksheets, and tutorials here:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php?sec=3
Learn about the Odd Job Jack season 2 DVD just released here:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/dvd.php
Catch Odd Job Jack in ‘person’ in his mall tour:
http://www.oddjobjack.com/OJJLive.php
Don’t forget to register at OddJobJack.com for a chance to win a PlayStation 3.
http://www.oddjobjack.com/freejack.php
http://www.smileyguy.com
http://www.legaltorrents.com
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