Swarr Gets Credit For King of Kong
If you missed King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters last year in theaters, you should seek out the DVD, which is being released on January 29th. This documentary about a pair of Donkey Kong experts fighting for the all-time high score is both inspiring, hysterical and heartbreaking.
The DVD is shipping with a handful of featurettes and a bonus short titled A Really, Really Brief History of Donkey Kong, which you can see below. It was written by I Am 8-bit’s Jon Gibson and directed by Flash-pioneer Gabe Swarr, a Spumco vet with heaps of TV animation experience at Warner Bros. Animation, Disney and Nickelodeon.
The VO was provided by El Tigre voice actor Eric Bauza and the character design was led by Swarr and Steve Lambe. Tony Mora (another Spumco vet) provided the animation and the After Effects artistry was handled by Matt Gadbois.
Link spotted on IGN.
Tags: DVD, Gabe Swarr, Video Games
January 24th, 2008 at 5:22 am
This is amazingly cool!!!
January 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Once again Gabe Swarr comes up with a classic piece of animation for the video game industry.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
8 Bit Weapon’s music rocks!
January 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
wow. very nice the second time around. i could watch that over and over. swarr is the man!
January 25th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Nicely done
January 25th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Swarr strikes again ….