The Precinct: Characters pt 1 – Ackersley & Rochman
Now that I’m putting together a new version of The Precinct pitch/bible/thing I thought I’d do something I meant to do years ago on this blog: introduce the characters properly. I’ll try to add them regularly. Here’s today’s! Ackersley is the most dangerous officer at The Precinct: a loose cannon, a renegade. As an undercover [...]
New Precinct pics
For the last couple of months we’ve been working on a new pitch/proposal for a Precinct half-hour series. This has meant a lot of meetings re the scripts (which need to be reworked to fit the longer format), the plots and the “big ideas” behind the show (we’re thinking about three seasons’ worth, so there’s [...]
The Precinct: 2011 lineup
I’m doing a new version of The Precinct bible/pitch thingo, so I bit the bullet and sat down for a couple days to redraw all the characters, adding a few newies and changing one or two completely.
New Precinct cartoon: BE A MAN!
Holy shit, I just made a new Precinct toon! Since following the progress of The Precinct was the original point of this blog, I think that’s worth celebrating! Like with the last one I did for the Sydney Opera House’s GRAPHIC animation contest, I made this new toon for a competition. The Australia Day Council [...]
Get An Animated Christmas Card From Nakedfella Productions For $500
It’s the end of the year, which can be a slow period for freelance animators like me. So I thought I’d offer to make your company’s animated Christmas card for only $500. I like making funny cartoons cheaply. Would you like one, made just for you, to send to customers/clients, wishing them a happy holiday [...]
John Howard facial animation test
John Howard’s Knees – facial animation test from David Blumenstein on Vimeo. A short facial animation test for John Howard’s Knees! I’ve gone through a few different designs for Howard; this one is the simplest, but I wasn’t sure if it would work with the voice. I built a set of standard “sad” mouths [...]
John Howard’s Knees: design redux
Been having more thoughts about the look and style of John Howard’s Knees (a cartoon I’m making about the former PM and his smashable knees). I quite like this version of him, as far as the balance between cartoon character and actual resemblance goes, but the style feels like a rip-off of something, not sure [...]
The Precinct — SBS submission
Finally, some Precinct work again! I’m putting together a new submission to SBS for The Precinct. We’ve actually submitted The Precinct to SBS twice before, but those proposed different show formats and lengths, and we’ve developed our ideas a lot more since then, especially thanks to our being funded to work on cross-platform strategy by [...]
Girl Mechanic
I was going through some old art and I found this piece, which I did as part of some Film Vic-funded development in 2008. I still like it! It’s for a series idea called Girl Mechanic, conceived by my very talented friend Katrina Mathers. It’s a series of toons teaching women the basics of car [...]