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.
Current projects include: The second half of my disturbing Bret Braddock Adventures comic strip saga. A kids’ comic called Hämfist, about three little pigs who like to rock. A cartoon about ex-PM John Howard and his smashable knees.
Read on for more of what I do!
The Precinct's Detective Ackersley is a friendly policeman.
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!
Bob Santino is a dancing 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. See my work site for further details.
Bret Braddock just wants to entertain you.
Comics
Every so often I produce a self-published comic book called Nakedfella Comics.
Lately I’ve been doing a weekly strip about a (fictional) TV production company called Docklands Entertainment. It’s called The Bret Braddock Adventures, and new episodes appear on Mondays.
I’ve done six episodes of a comics podcast called Comic Book Funny with toonist extraordinaire Ben Hutchings!
John Retallick and Gerard Ashworth are talking comics onstage at the Bella Union.
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, but we’re both cartoonists, so the wedding was sort of like a comics event.
