Sydney-based Tui Studios has released a trailer for their upcoming online fantasy series - The Heresy Saga. The video was produced with Flash 8 and After Effects, with the exception of the final shot, which was created with Anime Studio Pro. The series is being directed by Kelly Baigent, who worked at Walt Disney Australia as the Unit Director on Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch.
Ole-Magnus Saxegard, a student at Sydney-based University of Technology (UTS), has found his Flash-animated documentary plastered on the homepage of YouTube. A History of Evil is an unfinished 6-minute film that trips from ancient Greece to modern times in search of the true meaning of “evil.” After animating frame-by-frame in Flash, Saxegard composited the film in After Effects.
Dave Collinson, a 20-year old animator living in Brisbane, Australia, created this short, Flash-animated lip sync test below. For his soundtrack, Collinson used a 30-second clip from the 90’s British comedy Men Behaving Badly.
Australian animators Steven Smith and Xue-Sen Wong, alongside fellow countryman Gary Clark, have their sites set on a potential TV series. Clark’s syndicated comic strip Swamp appears in newspapers throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe, and now his two animator pals are helping bring the project to life. Here’s a sample Flash-animated clip titled Dumb Rat the animators cooked up, hoping to help usher the project closer to a TV series.
Back in October, CHF posted Chris Voigt’s surreal Space Duck. Voigt, who hails from Australia, is back with a narrative piece titled The Horseman Show. In his first episode, Horseman welcomes Captain Manlove, who fires off his mouth-laser after his honesty is challenged.
David Blumenstein, a comic artist and Flash animator, teamed up with fellow artists Kelly Lynagh and Michael Vandenhoven on a new music video for the artist know as The Bedroom Philosopher. The lyrics for The Happiest Boy are hysterical.
Blumenstein has previously worked at Bigkidz Entertainment the Australian design and animation studio behind Dogstar.
Chris Voigt, a 24 year old artist living in Australia has animated what he calls “a psychedelic journey through a sketchbook.” The short is titled Space Duck, and it features nearly 3 minutes of Flash-animated transformations, from a man with fish ears riding on a turtle to mountain shaped like a shark.
