About David

Nakedfella Productions is David Blumenstein (me). I live in Melbourne, Australia. Mostly what I do is make web and broadcast animation for fun and profit. I also do comics, illustration, writing, put on a couple of events and generally muck around.

I recently finished a 100-ish page comics story called “Showman?” The Bret Braddock Adventures. I’m working on a “graphic novellum” about a cult leader now. Got a couple of short films half finished, one a cartoon about ex-PM John Howard and his smashable knees, one about making love to trees.

The Precinct is my animated cop show. I’ve made a couple short episodes and am now making a series of Precinct toons called Be A Man, to be released online in 2013.

Contact me:
david {at} nakedfella {dot} com
+61 (0)422 509 144
P.O. Box 361, Flinders Lane, Vic. 8009
309 Victoria St, Brunswick, Vic 3056

Read on for more of what I do!

 

 

 

 

Animation

I started animating with (what was then known as Macromedia, now Adobe) Flash in 1998. Back then, there were all these exciting sites popping up all over the joint producing their own “internet cartoons”, and I was one of them (albeit one nobody ever heard of).

I did a sort of semi-animated parody of Star Wars called Lo Budget Indie Partay, which ran as a serial between late ’98 and 2000.

After this I studied animation for a year (at the AIM Centre) and learned that it can be useful to write and/or storyboard your cartoons before you make them.

My best known toons would include a short (22 minute) animated film called Herman, The Legal Labrador, an animated opener for non-animated Australian TV program The Panel, a nice music video called The Happiest Boy and a little thing called Why Cartoonists Don’t Go Out In Public Much.

My animated shorts concerning an angry blue lump called Mr. Flig have been seen on atom.com and on the US cable network G4, squished together with some of those Happy Tree Friends toons and other fun stuff.

I started a company called Cop Action Video in 2008. We’re currently developing the awesome animated cop show The Precinct, and hoping to partner up with a bunch of our animation pals to produce it one of these days. The latest Precinct cartoon is called Be A Man!

 

 

 

 

Animation (as job)

Since I started as an animator on the first series of Dogstar in 2005, I’ve been employed by numerous Australian animation studios, advertising agencies and other organisations as an animator, illustrator and storyboard artist. I’ve worked on TV animation projects for companies such as Zactoons, Viskatoons, BigKidz Entertainment and Studio Moshi.

I’m generally available for any animationy job that needs doing.

 

 

 

 

Comics

Every so often I produce a self-published comic book called Nakedfella Comics.

Lately I’ve finished up a weekly strip about a (fictional) TV production company called Docklands Entertainment. It’s called The Bret Braddock Adventures.

I do an occasional comics podcast called Comic Book Funny with toonist extraordinaire Ben Hutchings!

Hutcho started an amazing studio space/shop called Squishface Studio which is where I do my comics now. You can walk in most days of the week and pick up our books, prints and original art. Come by!

 

 

 

 

Events

I run comics/animation-related events when it seems like a good idea. I helped the National Young Writers Festival organise some toony panels in 2004 and 2005, put on a comics exhibition (Big Comics Pages) at the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival in 2006 and 2007 and staged a series of cartoonist talks (confusingly, called Comic Book Funny just like our podcast) at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008 and 2009.

In 2010 I got married to Sarah Howell, but we’re both cartoonists, so the wedding was sort of like a comics event.

In 2011, we went (on our honeymoon) to MoCCA Fest, a very cool independent comics fair in New York. Inspired by this, we partnered up with a huge load of amazing Australian cartoonists for the Caravan of Comics, a comics road trip around north-eastern America and Canada in April-May 2012.