Hooray For Newcastle

New Reel

Froggy Went A Courtin' And He Did Ride...

Ani Mates

I have finished up my tenure with the lovely folks at Switch FX which finally gives me the opportunity to catch up with some proper NY animation people.
On Friday I had lunch with the incredibly positive and personable David Levy (below).

Afterwards, I saw Madagascar 2, which had some great moments.
A much better moment was that evening when Rebecca and I finally caught up with the extremely tall and bearded Tim Rauch, one half of Rauch Brothers Animation, future animation juggernauts as far as I'm concerned.
Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of him, but he pretty much looks like Grizzly Adams after a good scrubbing down.
It was a terrific day - hooray for animation!

Honeymoon In Arizona

Rebecca and I honeymooned in Arizona, specifically, Sedona.
Our rotten little peashooter camera did little to document the thrill of the vast red mountains that look like the Scottish Highlands but in the desert.


These large, circular splats below are called The Cow Pats.
In our jeep (driven by a rugged bushman type whose name I can't recall) was a young couple who were considering getting married out here.
On top of one of those Cow Pats.
Clearly they were insane.
It's filthy and dusty and you can't get there without some kind of sturdy 4WD or a helicopter or a horse.
We assumed she wasn't intending to wear a white dress.


Below is the Grand Canyon.
It is indeed very grand.

Because Arizona doesn't have a coastline, there aren't many fish here.
Instead, people net rocks for their dinner.
This was empty only fifteen minutes earlier - there sure are plenty of rocks in Arizona.

Then we went to Africa!


Here is a fish carved out of a rock and then deep fried.
At least, that's how it tasted.
The food in Arizona was shit!

We rode horsies.
Rebecca had a little horse and I had a big one.
I think they choose the horse based on the size of the rider.
There's a whopping great Frenchman out of frame riding an elephant.

We drove a Mustang across the state - now I am a real American.
Remarkably, it cost only 40 bucks US to fill it up.

On the way back from the Grand Canyon there was a blizzard.
Zero visiblity.
Driving on the other side of the road for the first time ever.
It was hard.

Then we came home.
Hooray for honeymoons!

Wedding Wishes from London Animation Types

You are all a bunch of superstar champions!!!!!!

Now I Have a Wife!

Neil Ross drew us this lovely picture.


Huge thank you to all who came from across the seas and the animation guys who made me an amazing DVD that I hope to be able to post very soon.

Here's some rockin' ceremony.

Ian

Go visit Ian Miller.

Arse Face

Tequila

Last night I celebrated my birthday with friends.
6 Mexicans forced 6 or 7 shots of tequlia down my throat.
HOORAY!

Christmas Cheer

Did I ever post this?

Happy Birthday To Me

Mickey Must Piss

Greek

A Deadly Beast

The Opposite

Today as I was waiting for the train, I spotted an incredibly tall, extremely well dress and good looking black fellow.
He was the African Superman.
It occurred to me that he looked exactly the opposite of me (and therefore had a very, very small penis - probably a vagina, actually).

Frawgs

I've been animating frogs.
I wish they looked like this.

Malaka

The Land Of The Germans

After the Italians, nobody loves Boxhead and Roundhead more than the Germans (except maybe the Dutch).
Boxhead and Roundhead return to interfilm Berlin, a terrific film festival in November.
I wish I could attend!

Also - don't miss the new Boxhead and Roundhead - Brothers In Arms.

Brothers In Arms - The Brand New Stressful Boxhead and Roundhead Adventure

EDIT -
Sorry I had to take this down folks, B&R have been sold to Shorts International for distribution and so had to be hoovered off Youtube.

At last!
The first new one in a year.
As ever, it was made up on the fly and could not have been so great without contributions from overly attractive Matt Saxton and the incredibly generous Tom Chianti - an audio legend who I found shuffling around my apartment building.
Enjoy!
As a free gift, I've included an extra one minute of black at the end (I had some rendering difficulties and I'm not going to do it again).