It’s well known that “Weird Al” Yankovic is an animation fan, and in the past he’s paired up with a number of small animation houses and individual animators to help produce his music videos. This trend continues for his latest album, titled Alpocalypse, released two days ago. As it turns out, Yankovic is a fan of the Happy Tree Friends short Mole in the City, which was produced by the gang at Ghostbot. So for the track titled Party in the CIA (a parody on Miley Cyrus’ Party in the USA), Yankovic invited Ghostbot director and co-founder Roque Ballesteros to direct the music video. Here’s a clip:
By way of his DoogToons channel, Doug Bressler has released his latest collaboration with “Weird Al” Yankovic, which delves into the musical comedian’s early love life. This is titled School Crushes:
The Flash animators at SuperNews! recently took some time away from season 2 to animate singer/songwriter/satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic. Below is his latest music video, which was directed by Josh Faure-Brac and Dustin McLean. The track is Ringtone, a style-parody of Queen’s music, and the you can see pics of the crew over at the SuperNews! blog creating the companion Collabo-Jam TV special.
A note to Los Angeles-based readers… Doug Bresler, the creator of Doogtoons and the animator behind “Weird Al” Yankovic’s animated Trapped in the Drive-Thru short, will be hosting a free seminar at the Santa Monica Apple Store this Saturday at 3pm. According to Bresler’s site, he’ll be giving a behind-the-scenes look at his most popular Flash-animated shorts and insight into the animation process. The event, titled Making Cartoons the Doogtoons Way, is scheduled to last 2 hours.
Bresler has also been animating on a popular GoPotato.tv series called Eli’s Dirty Jokes. Here’s the latest episode titled The Farmer’s Daughters.
Doug Bressler, the artist behind DoogToons and Nick and Haig, has teamed up again with the father of musical comedy “Weird Al” Yankovic. Bressler animates a segment of an interview with Yankovic, and we learn about his spelling skills.
Spelling Bees and Accordions
If you’re wondering what other Weird Al videos DoogToons has created, wonder no more!
Weird Al’s Childhood
Trapped in the Drive-Thru (a spoof of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet)












