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 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
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Last year I posted about an awesome artist, Scott Vandenbosch, under the banner of Talented Bastards Who Should Be Shot for being just, generally, better at what they do than I am. Just 'cause I feel like it, here's another of the many cool people who are
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About a month ago, we held an event called Bret Braddock's Awkward Workplace Function as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival. In case you don't know, I do a (mostly) weekly comic strip over at Docklands Entertainment about Bret Braddock, a fictional entrepreneur who wishes to
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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
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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
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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
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I forgot to mention at a useful or appropriate time that I've got a comic in the recently released issue (#30) of the venerable Aussie literary journal Going Down Swinging! It's called Sciensatics, and it's a somewhat freeform gag on various interesting cult-type
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My wife Sarah Howell was one of the directors of NYWF this year. We went up to Newcastle for it (my ninth time, I worked out) Here's some of my favourite bits from the festival: * the bits where cartoonists such as Chris Downes, Patrick Alexander and Rebecca Clements
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Making a little animated trailer for another contest. This time it's a trailer for a webseries based on me comic "The Bret Braddock Adventures"! Here's some of the characters. I'm at the stage where the characters are being "built" (prepared
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Having admitted I do the Bret Braddock Adventures comic strip, I'd like to invite you to the launch of the paper version: Have you ever worked for a really lousy boss? Why not relive the experience? The Bret Braddock Adventures is a weekly comic strip about a very