The new adventure of Mukpuddy’s first character - Dirk Banzai!
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Hats off to our pals in New Zealand, Mukpuddy Animation, for a job well-done. They’ve just blogged a four-and-a-half minute pilot for Nick International based on their very first character, Dirk Banzai (created back when Dame Jenny Shipley was Prime Minister!). Watch it above, then go to the MukBlog to let them how much you enjoyed it.
Images from Jean-Christophe Lie’s “L’Homme a la Gordini”
I’m back from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Hats off to Chris Robinson, Kelly Neall, and the team behind the screens for organizing another fine festival. Also, thanks to Dave Levy who invited me to sit on a development panel along with Linda Simensky, Fran Krause, and Heather Kenyon. It went well, and I used two different dating analogies in answering questions.
It was a strong crop of shorts this year, I think. However, even though I took advantage of the screenings-on-demand, I still fell short of seeing all the animation I would’ve liked to have seen. Favorite films? Again, I didn’t see nearly everything (I missed the Student Screening, for example), but I’d give the blue ribbon to “L’Homme a la Gordini”, the first short film by Jean-Christophe Lie, and a cartoon I wished would’ve gone on longer. I also enjoyed pretty well Adam [Read more…]
To promote tomorrow’s release of the Wubb Idol DVD, Wubbzy rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The Dow is up 10.96 to 9875.90 as of 2:20 p.m. ET. Pork bellies are down, doodleberry pies are up in late trading.
Hey, remember that anthology we produced 700 years ago called Random! Cartoons? Well, one of those thirty-nine shorts - “Call Me Bessie!” - is being screened in this year’s New York Television Festival, “the industry’s first recognized independent television festival, providing a platform to elevate the work of artists creating for the small screen”. As part of of the festival’s family block, Bessie and Al can be seen this Friday (9/25) at 6:00 p.m., then again on Saturday (9/26) at 1:15 p.m. Both screenings will be at New World Stages located at 340 West 50th Street.
A big hats off to creators Diane Kredensor and Dana Galin along with their cast and crew on jobs well done. If I were in Manhattan, I’d be there with (cow)bells on.
Hats off to OddBot Inc. A small cartoon studio within a stone’s throw of L.A.’s Eagle Rock, they’ve produced some real good work over the past three years under the leadership of Chris Hamilton. And while the crew works on projects for clients including Playhouse Disney and PBS Kids, they also make their own, original cartoons, such as their Freaky Robots series. Take a look at one of the more popular episodes, “The Sex List”, embedded above.
We get asked a whole lot when My Life as a Teenage Robot will be released on DVD. And we answer a whole lot, “It’s up to Nickelodeon. Who knows?” Well, Nick has gone and put the entire first season of the show on iTunes: $1.99 per half-hour or $19.99 for all thirteen half-hours. Included are the premiere episode (a re-make of the the original short), the Raggedy Android episodes, the Ear/Speak/See No Evil trilogy, and “Daydream Believer”. Let’s hope seasons two and three aren’t far behind.
