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Haven't had time to post properly lately as I've been extra busy. Hopefully the Tweeting makes up for that. The good news is that things are going splendidly on all fronts! 1. I've been doing new Precinct animation (well... really a jumped-up animatic
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This man is the first person to try to smash John Howard's knees, moments after his birth in 1939.
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The Singer character appears throughout the fillum, singing the song it's set to. This is my first go at designing him.
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Download cbf_episode05.mp3 The podcast I do with comics genius Ben Hutchings is back! Normally we talk about comics and other silly things, but the new episode is mostly about the animation industry (which is a very silly thing itself). Here's the new episode! Download Comic Book
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This is reposted from the John Howard's Knees Fundbreak page... Big thanks to those who've chucked in for "John Howard's Knees", and just as much thanks go to those who've re-tweeted, reposted and just generally whored this page around!
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A drawing I'm doing for my John Howard's Knees film. I don't think it's done yet (the drawing, not the film). Suggestions welcome. See the multitude of people and animals bent on breaking John Howard's knees! Even cats want in
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A quick post. We're gearing up for the possibility of doing some new Precinct cartoons later in the year, and I just found the animation notes I made for the toon we did in the lead-up to MIPCOM '08. So here is how to animate Precinct
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David Blumenstein, director of such acclaimed (?) short films as "Herman, The Legal Labrador", "Kickin' It With Mr Flig" and "Fart That Out Your Ear" (upcoming), is making a new short animated musical called "John Howard's Knees", and requires a
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I went to COMICS CAMP a couple weekends ago, and since then I've been hard into (my day job, my freelance work, and also) my two current projects: a short film called John Howard's Knees and the animated cop show currently known as The Precinct. While
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Theoretically, this is the "Precinct" production blog, but clearly, over four years, it's become "David's blog". Since there's not too much Precinct news at the moment, I will probably talk a bit in coming months about the little short I&
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About five years ago I wrote a script for a short film called "The Ballad of the History of Trying to Break John Howard's Knees", a lovely singalong tale of how our then-Prime Minister, John Winston Howard, has always had to escape brutal knee-beatings.
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I spent 2009 planning and scheming and writing and talking and thinking. Lots of thinking! This was all good stuff to do, in addition to the freelance work I had. But I did very little MAKING of STUFF! I made a zine of some of my old articles and prose