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Trussell Teams With Ward Again For First Time

aaron — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:42:22 +0000

Remember Joel Trussell’s 2006 music video for M. Ward? Chinese Translation was our 2nd look at Joel’s Flash-animation work, after his breakout video for Jason Forrest‘s War Photographer. Here’s his latest, The First Time I Ran Away. Full credits below.

CREDITS
Directed by Joel Trussell
Animators:
Joel Moser
Marius Alecse
Gene Blakefield
Kelly Turnbull
Frank Macchia
Adam Scarpita
Compositor:
Tony Christopherson
Thanks to Six Point Harness Animation Studios

Six Point Pulls Pizza Quest From the Oven

aaron — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:41:32 +0000

After BearShark and Dinosaur Office, the next CollegeHumor animated series aimed at the Nintendo 3DS is called Pizza Quest. The animation on this one was directed by Joel Trussell, via Six Point Harness Studios.

Trussell Goes Gabba For Robbert Bobbert

aaron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:28:10 +0000

Some Yo Gabba Gabba! goodness today from Joel Trussell ~~Puny Entertainment~~. It’s a collaboration with Robbert Bobbert and The Bubble Machine, a spin-off childrens project from Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider. We posted another video from the group here back in September. Here’s That’s My Family…

Trussell Rolls Through Gossip Music Video

aaron — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:03:46 +0000

Joel Trussell, the brilliant animator behind the War Photographer video and multiple Morcheeba videos has struck again. This time its for Gossip, and their track Love Long Distance. It’s quite the creative production, mapping digital animation onto live action footage from the roller rink. Mike and Anna Hollingsworth helped out on the animation, much as they did on Trussell’s previous project. Trussell is rep’d by One Small Step.

Spotted over at drawn.ca.

Trussell Animation Blends Fruit With Flash

aaron — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:55:01 +0000

You may have already seen this over at CartoonBrew.com, and if so, it’s worth another look. Joel Trussell (War Photographer), directed a music video for Kid606 (Miguel Trost Depedro), a techno artist out of San Francisco. The track is Mr. Wobble’s Nightmare, and Trussell employed a unique production method here – using live-action footage of real fruit and constructed sets, which were married together with Flash animation faces. Trussell had help from Anna & Mike Hollingsworth on the animation front.

Camp Chaos Prepares Unga Bunga Banana

aaron — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:54:33 +0000

For Fremantle’s (American Idol) web and mobile channel Atomic Wedgie, Camp Chaos’ Bob Cesca has embarked on a new animated series. It’s titled Unga Bunga Banana, and it stars “a weird antagonistic critter with big goggles who loves to wreck havoc wherever he goes.” Cesca created the series along with John Christian Plummer, and then he invited two of my favorite artists to join him in the production. Bob directed the series with Anton Bogaty who also animated the series. Both Bogaty and Joel Trussell helped Cesca with character design. The first episode, which you can see below, is titled Cheese Pants.

Trussell Makes For Jake

aaron — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:28:19 +0000

Wired.com called Joel Trussell’s latest animated music video “a crude Flash exorcism of the singer’s personal and political demons.” Bite your tongue, good sir! The singer referenced is Jakob Dylan, whose album Seeing Things his the shelves back in May. We take great umbrage with these comments, and found the video lacking all things crude. What say you?

Spotted at Drawn.

Trussell and Team Tackle Morcheeba Video

aaron — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:34:06 +0000

I caught a screening last week of The Animation Show Year 4, which kicked off with an energetic opener from Joel Trussell. After you check to see when the Animation Show is coming to your neighborhood, have a look see at Joel’s Morcheeba music video. Trussell partnered up with Todd Schott, Eric Kilkenny, Darin Bendall and Saxton Moor to produce this 3 minute Gained The World video.

Trussell Enjoys the Ride With Morcheeba

aaron — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:34:38 +0000

If you’re like me, you first got to know Joel Trussell by way of his music videos. His viking-inspired video for Jason Forrest’s War Photographer put him on the animation map, and thanks to his Chinese Translation video, we’ve gotten to know a great new musical artist – M. Ward.

Joel continues his assault on the music video world with Enjoy the Ride, the first single from Morcheeba’s latest album Dive Deep, which released just last week.

Flash in The News – November 2007

aaron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Several folks in the Flash community have been making headlines in the last month or so.

Joel Trussell, the brilliant designer and artist from Tennessee was featured in the Metro Pulse, the Knoxville weekly. They discuss his recent short for Yo Gabba Gabba!, his rise to web fame with War Photographer, and his fear of Flash games. Click here to read.

Tom Neely, who was featured here in 2005 for his Muffs music video, has been having one helluva year. His graphic novel The Blot has found a great deal of critical success, then the Black Maria Gallery in Glendale put on a one-man show, titled Self Indulgent Werewolf, of his painting and sculptures. Even in his still work, Neely can’t help but animate. Click here to read his interview at the LAist.

Gene Fowler, the top dog at Fatkat, won BDC’s (Business Development Bank) Young Entrepreneur Award for New Brunswick. The press release features a brief interview with Fowler. Click here to read.

There’s also been some echoes of a Flash-related dust-up that started over at Cartoon Brew.

Pete Emslie continues to berate Flash as the cause of bad animation.

And John Kricfalusi posted a thoughtful reply to Emslie and claims that if it’s Overseas vs. Domestic Flash – he’ll take Flash any day.