ROBOMAN tries the martial arts!

I was recently inspired to play around with stop-motion animation.  

Here's what I came up with...

Silly? Sure. Did you catch the tape that was holding down his foot.  

I had to use alot of it.

On the Frederator Blog

Don't know why it's taken me so long to get this little piece of news up, but in addition to the Channel Frederator Podcast, I've also made it to their blog. You can read the Q&A with me over here:


http://www.frederatorblogs.com/post/4376

The interview was done via e-mail, so all the typos in my answers are my own. I guess I really should've had someone read it over before I submitted it.

Labours of Leraje on Channel Frederator

I subscribed to the Channel Frederator video podcast back in its beginnings, and back when I was just starting to play around with animation. I'd watch these cartoons for tips on animating hoping one day I could be good enough to get one of my films on the podcast. Now it's 2007 and my latest short cartoon has made it to frederator.



Hope they weren't lowering their standards. Very cool. And to think it started out as a walk test for a four legged creature that just grew. You can see the 2 day one shot test that inspired the other 3 shots in the film a few bloggs ago.

Perils of a Demonous Incurus

Here's the animation mentioned below. It's the original :18 sec and it's a bit of a test piece. I've expanded it and tweaked it since. It's been submitted to Atom Films and hopefully we'll see it there soon.

Hope you like it, even if it's a bit "Cute"!

Animation

So the 18 sec animation from my previous post has become a 48 sec animation. I've submitted it to Atom Films. Here's hoping.

I'm working on a stereocopic version 'cause I love 3d. That to is almost done.

I'll wait a bit to see what happens with atomfilms and the like. If there are no takers then you'll get to see it here. If there are takers, well, maybe I'll through up an anaglyphic version here (red and blue glasses kind). We'll see.

It was a lot of fun to do though.

Here's a pic of the title:

It's pronounced Larry by the way.

i couldn't resist posting a 3d pic. Get out you glasses...

Jason Pichonsky's X Minus One trailer

Okay, if you're coming form Zombie Astronaut's blog you've already seen this, if not enjoy!

Just a reminder, post some comments in the... uhum comments section. Film-makers love an audience. Really.

So some background. About 2 years ago I discovered a program called Poser (rediscovered might be a better term, but 2 yrs ago it started to make sense to me). I also discovered radio theatre, and more specificly a sci-fi program called X-Minus One. Always a project oriented person, I started to teach myself 3-d animation utilizing Poser (version 5). I thought then and still do, that this series (or it's cousins Dimension X and Future Tense) would make an excellent animated series. So I started to experiment with that.

I never truely finished my experiments at least not to a point that would truely be satisfying-- a complete episode of X Minus One animated.

So the trailer you've seen is rough and not very polished, missing some lipsync and fully rendered material. Still there are moments I love about the piece. I really like the style of animation in "The Moon is Green" The original radio play doesn't pan out the way it should but I was infatuated with the opening scenario .

In "Chain of Command" I always envisioned a Looney Tune approach to the animation (the one where the mouse is playing the piano).

The Martian really works for me.

And I actually have a 3-d version of "How To" sitting on my drives. If I can find it I think I'll post it. Get out your red and blue glasses!!!

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