Although I had a exceptionally lovely weekend, my favorite moment was when a two year old boy told this granny that she looked like the old lady in the film Pixar film, Ratatouille.

Ain't Nothin'

Flerg

Highlights

These are some highlights from the little film below.

133 Watercolours In 3 Days

133 Watercolours In 3 Days from Elliot Cowan on Vimeo.

I have a client function next week and wanted to make a little piece of art for everyone.
I bought these cheap little sketchbooks that seemed heavy enough to take watercolour then splashed them out one after the other.
There're some touch ups with brush pen.
Not all of them are brilliant, but they all have life and energy which is in the spirit of the thing.
Let me know if you have a favorite.

Last night at the 41st ASIFA-East Animation Festival I won a few things.
A job I worked on with Dave Levy for The Electric Company won 2nd Place in the Commercial category and my film The Thing In The Distance won an award for Excellence In Design.
I won the same award last year which makes me kind of a Tom Hanks, yeah? No?... Ok...

A Martian Of Error

Health Care USA

Drag On

Puppy Larue

THE THING IN THE DISTANCE!

My award winning short, The Thing In The Distance is now online.
Whoop!


Or here, on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/11020052

Mouse

Reel 2010

Reel Breakdown.

1) “The Buddah” for Dave Grubin Productions, PBS and Asterisk Animation.
Roles: animation, compositing.

2) “Batter Up” for Electric Company and David Levy Animation.
Roles: design, animation, editor.

3) “Fish” for Charter Communications and Curious Pictures.
Roles: animation, background design.

4) “Little Pim” for Little Pim co and Asterisk Animation.
Roles: animation.

5) “The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead” award winning short film series.
Roles: director, animator, story artist, editor.

6) Self promotional material.
Roles: everything except music.

7) “Real Sex Prank Calls With Gil Ozari” for New Wave Entertainment.
Roles: story artist, designer, animator.

8) “Spark Something” for Switch FX.
Roles: designer, animator.

9) “The Blue Man” for director Neil Ross.
Roles: animator, story artist.

The Buddah

The Buddah documentary I worked on plays tonight on PBS at 8pm.

Instead of explaining the whole lot, you can visit here instead: http://asteriskpix.blogspot.com/2010/04/buddha-premiere.html

Mr Pint

Production Art

Folks have heard me rattling on about a feature length version of my Boxhead and Roundhead films.
We're working on it, really!
My pal, the inhumanly talented (and sometimes inhumanely talented) Neil Ross did a bunch of incredible stuff but you don't get to see that yet.
Here's some of my tat in the meantime.

Vertical Hold

Arse Gags

Headface

Tie Guy