For the upcoming holiday season, I’ve been pushing hard to get some cool new stuff in the CHF Store. One should be ready soon, and a few others will hopefully be ready by December 1st. If you head over to John K’s website, you can get a sneak peek at what we’re cooking up. And if you move quick, you can get your comments in and help us think it through and vote on your favorites.
Okay, Sean Szeles is officially the Flash artist of the week. In his second appearance on CHF in five days, Sean stars in an on-air El Tigre promo on Nickelodeon. Sean wrote up the experience over on his blog, and below you can see the :30 assembly of a storyboard pitch he led in front of his team. Keep your eyes peeled for show creators Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua in the clip along with other El Tigre team members like Gabe Swarr.
Curtis Jobling, a British illustrator and animator, has teamed up with fellow countryman I. N. J. Culbard to bring Biteneck Beatniks to life. This original series concept created by Jobling did a lap around the MIPCOM floor earlier this year, and is currently aiming towards a full pilot. The two brought in Luc Chamberland and Sardine Productions team to create this 2-minute animated teaser below.
A good year before Cold Hard Flash came into existence, Australian filmmaker Hamish Koci’sFog Eyes had screened at all the major animation festivals – including Annecy and Ottawa. This 6-minute student film takes on the subjects of religious zealotry and euthanasia, and its apparent that Koci didn’t make use of Flash’s potential for limited animation. With a high drawing count and a rhyming narrative, this traditionally-animated short from 2003 is charming and provides a thoughtful perspective on a complex and controversial topic.
Hamish assembled an interesting lip sync tutorial for Australia’s ABC website. Koci has since worked on Flash-animated series, including The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers.
Sean Szeles, an animator on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, has posted a sequence from the episode Yellow Pantera, which premiered this past summer. Before an episode is sent to the animation studio, Szeles is given the the green light to embellish several shots with partial or full animation. You can read more about his Flash-animation process in a post from March of this year.
You can watch the entire Yellow Pantera episode at TurboNick.
For the upcoming holiday season, I’ve been pushing hard to get some cool new stuff in the CHF Store. One should be ready soon, and a few others will hopefully be ready by December 1st. If you head over to John K’s website, you can get a sneak peek at what we’re cooking up. And if you move quick, you can get your comments in and help us think it through and vote on your favorites. 
