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National Young Writers Festival 2010
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 sat around drawing things. the panel I…
“The Bret Braddock Adventures” animation
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 for animating). We had a recording session for this toon a couple weeks ago which…
Bret Braddock’s Awkward Workplace Function
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 badly managed company called Docklands Entertainment. They’re…
John Howard’s Knees: recording session 01
So I’ve mentioned that I’m working on a new music short film called John Howard’s Knees, about the ex-PM and his bewitching patellas. Everybody wants to smash ’em! We had our very first proper recording session last month. Prior to this, I’d recorded a fairly crap demo track featuring me singing the song over a…
Here’s the Precinct stuff from the Opera House contest
I entered and was a finalist in the Sydney Opera House’s GRAPHIC animation competition! I’ve whacked the stuff I had to make for the contest on YouTube. First, there were two video diaries: My head looks larger and pinker in the second one, but the clip is shorter and has a better ending. And here’s…