I really wanted to keep this artwork secret but it’s just too cool. Next New Network animator Ben Ross is a master of the feaux-8 Bit look and I asked him to create a retro Meth Minute episode. That’s all I’ll say for now. Check out these MM39 characters in video game form!
Youtube was cool enough to let Channel Frederator be a guest editor so I thanked them myself in cartoon form. As usual, my mind started to wander to strange thoughts before long.
-Dan
Ultra and The Lazerhearts are coming back in a couple weeks. The battle against the Fruit Bats continues.
Dan
Wow! A Youtube user by the name of Valcera has made this homemade tribute song to Space Cowboy. Using classic lines of dialogue and harmonica, he’s given props to the future’s coolest hero.
-Thank you Valcera, you’re free now… it’s cool.
In the never-ending chaos of directing a short cartoon every week, it’s easy to forget some detail. But forgetting assistant animator Josh Weisbrod in the credits on episode 26 was (in the words of Space Cowboy himself) “unacceptable, man.”
Alot of people were surprised to see that this week’s Meth Minute was a Space Cowboy cartoon, despite last week’s preview implying Nite Fite.
Sorry about the switchup, Nite Fiters, but it is for a reason that will make you happy later on. I can’t go too deeply into it now, but let me just say this; you’ll get to see that episode and more very soon.
And in the meantime, let’s mount up on some evolutionized horses and ride with the space cowboy Jake Rhodes… also known as Space Cowboy.
-Dan
Come to the ASIFA East Animation Festival jury screenings tomorrow night (Thursday March 20). I submitted a whole bunch of The Meth Minutes greatest hits. I can’t wait to see how they look on the big screen. When you’ve only seen your work in a 480 pixel window, it’s quite experience to suddenly see it projected 2 stories tall! (I wonder how many pixels that is…)
March 20th - Independent Films
SVA
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
3rd Fl, Amphitheater
NYC
6:30Pm
FREE!
I carry my camera everywhere and whenever I see a piece of art that is really weird I need to photograph it and upload it to this Flickr set called “Weirdsider Art”. It’s a close cousin to “outsider art”. The difference is that outsider art is made by weird hobbyists in their spare time. Weirdsider Art, however, is made by strange commercial artists somehow making a living off it. They are interesting, mysterious, and often unintentionally profound.
Take a look.
