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.
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.
Adam Phillips, the award winning Flash animator from Australia, is done with his next release - Waterlollies. Well, he’s still waiting on the music and sound effects, but his wrist-breaking animation work is complete. In the lead-up to the launch, which is slated for September 20th, Phillips has released a time-lapse look at his background creation process.
Without hearing the character’s voices or knowing what the storylines are, it’s hard to know if Scraggle Muffin is going to be a hit with the preschool crowd. But simply going off the look of the show, I’d wager a few bucks that it’s got a shot. The series is being brought to life by 30-year old Sydney-based artist Jonathan Dower, who runs Tui Studios along with Kelly Baigent. His experience at Walt Disney Australia’s studio shines through.
Last week, the Australian-based studio Nectarine was mentioned alongside 2 Flash-animated shorts for the WebDU 2007 Conference in Sydney.
They actually produced several more shorts for this event, including this one titled The Rather Amazing and Slightly Distorted History of Flash, which starts with FutureSplash, and takes us all the way up to today’s Flash CS3.
Australia’s Nectarine recently produced a series of animated shorts for the WebDU 2007 Conference in Sydney. They all spoof a particular software or code, and this first one below introduces the first Flash-based breakfast cereal - FlashO’s.
And this second one takes on the popular web application framework Ruby on Rails.
Tropfest, Australia’s largest film festival, has awarded Steve Baker’s film An Imaginary Life (IE only) the top prize. Baker has faired well at two previous Tropfest events, and this latest film is heartwarming and beautiful. His efforts landed him US$27,600 in Tropfest prize money, but Baker’s live-action/animation composited film was subsequently enveloped in controversy. Variety recently ran a piece announcing that lawyers from Cartoon Network, the home of Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, are investigating the similarities between the two projects.
Baker explains that he had never heard of Foster’s until the Tropfest founder mentioned it to him, and I’ve got a feeling the guy is telling the truth. Baker would immediately realize that if he borrowed the concept from Craig McCracken’s immensely popular show, there would be almost no way to avoid comparisons. So why would a guy who has created clever, unique films like Confessions of an Animation steal someone else’s idea? It sounds unlikely.
According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, An Imaginary Life, like Foster’s, utilized Flash in the film making process.
