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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.
Animation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Designing Bret Braddock
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"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
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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&
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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
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Opera House Follies
I spent the weekend in Sydney at the GRAPHIC comics/animation-related festival/event-series/thing! It was a very nice com/an-rel fest/ev-ser/thg which I certainly wouldn't have gone to/been able to afford if I hadn't been a finalist in