May
1
2007
Off The Wall Is Hirsch’s Send Off
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Alex Hirsch will be stepping out into the working world soon, graduating from the animation program at the Valencia-based California Institute of Arts, or CalArts. The school, for those of you who didn’t know, was founded by Roy and Walt Disney in 1961, after merging together two preexisting schools.
Alex’s latest film takes a page from Walt’s book - marrying animation with live-action actors. In this first episode of Off the Wall, titled Lady Troubles, we watch best friends Nick (played by fellow animator Nick Butera) and Wally (voiced by Hirsch) wager over their dating successes.
Ian Worrel and Adrian Molina helped out with animation, and you can spot Hirsch at the very end eating next to a trash can. Congrats on graduating, Alex - and the same to the rest of your classmates.
Tags: Cal Arts
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:09 am
Holy crap this is really cool!! Such a funny idea and executed really well!! Top notch stuff Alex!!
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 am
That was great!
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Is this serious? It’s like a bad 80’s ripoff. Whoa, my eyes, ears, and brain hurts.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Dear anonymous- I am pleased through and through that my planned assault on your eyes, ears, and brain went swimmingly. My only regret is that this film didn’t hurt your tongue, arms, appendix and gall bladder. There’s always next time!
PS: Despite my best efforts, there was no way I could possibly match the artistic mastery of true 1980s fantasy sitcoms. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(TV_series)
Thanks for watching!
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Don’t worry about him Alex.
I thought it was executed very well.
I can’t stand people who won’t put their names to critiques. cowardly in my oppinion.
May 4th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Alex, this is brilliant. This film has some of the most interesting and entertaining character interaction and dialogue I have seen in any live action or animated short in a long, long time. Trust me, people all over the industry who actually know what the hell they are doing have seen it and freaking love it! I know because I am making all my friends watch it at every studio! You have amazing character sensabilities man. I love it!
May 7th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I loved it, a funny idea well executed. The actors did a good job having to interact with an idea and not another character.
To be more Hollywood, though, you’ll need to do two or three sequels….
May 8th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Awesome work, Alex! I loved it! Wonderfully done. You have a great sense of humor and your voice acting rocks, too.