The Little Chris Moyles Show

There is an online animated series based on the Radio 1 show, The Chris Moyles Show made by Popnoodles.com. The audio was blatantly robbed from The Chris Moyles Show, mixed up a bit and shoved together, with cartoon style attributing South Park. The episode are shown below.

Episode 1
Little Chris introduces his little friends and does a little impression or two. Completely unofficial, slightly unoriginal.


Episode 2
Little Chris is back again with Dave, Dom, Carrie and Rachel.


Episode 3
Little Chris starts a brand new band for X Factor. Part 1 of 2.


Episode 4
Chris, Dave, Dom and Aled practice for X Factor. Part 2 of 2.

My Profiles over the Internet

I thought that it was about time that I put this list up. They are of all my profiles across the internet, well the ones I can think of at the moment any way... If I think of any more I'll add them :)

BEBO - http://dogactor87.bebo.com

FACEBOOK - http://hud.facebook.com/profile.php?id=283800366

FACEBOX - http://en.facebox.com/dogactor87

MYSPACE - www.myspace.com/dogactor87

TAGGED - www.tagged.com/mypage.html?uid=8770632

DEL.ICIO.US - http://del.icio.us/dogactor87

Flying Hexagons and text

With Jose I then made the below animation of random hexagons flying round the place and changing colour. It looks a lot like a screen saver actually. I did this in Adobe After Effects.


Ok we also animated text which can be seen below.

Bees, Bees and more Bees!

Firstly... AHHHHH MY HEAD!!! So much information at once. Although I am enjoying this master class with Jose it is a lot of information :)
We have been animating Bees, I've uploaded what we've done so far below. Im not too happy with how all the Bees turn at about the same time but i dont know After Effects well enough yet to change that.
Well enjoy and let me know what you think.

Eboy - Sprite

YAAAAWWWWNNNNN
Too early today but oh well here goes :)

We have been working on our Sprites again and we got told about an original sprite type website called Eboy. www.eboy.com
It was made before Habbo Hotel and is very good. I especially like how they make the images and when refering to a city bringing all the most famous parts and bringing them together. Such as in the image below of London. See how many famous things you can spot. I also love the little funny captions such as the octopus. HE HE

My Caricature

Here is my final version of a caricature of myself. Im not happy with the mouth as its a bit big and i didnt put enough yellow in my eyes but its ok... im sure my eyes will change colour again to like that :) (for those that dont know, my eyes change colour)

Autobiography Characters

Here are a few more characters for my Autobiography Animatic. They are of -
* Hallway Guy
* Me
* Hederwick.

Morphing Animation

Here is part of my morphing Animation, which isn't finished yet so its very short. Its of a Voodoo Doll who turns in to a man who stands up and starts walking. Eventuallly he will then be stabbed by pins by a hand and fall back down into a voodoo doll again so it loops. Enjoy :)

My MOHO Animation

Ok Firstly Rob... I put you in this animation because Alison told me to do you!!!
Any way I used the sound from the Hannibal film called 'Red Dragon' and also me recording my voice. I have no idea where this came from... just the first thing that popped into my head i guess! Its nearly finished, i just need to finish the lip-syncing as I only did the first sentence of Robs speech. Well enjoy and please leave your comments :)

100 GREATEST CARTOONS

From Mickey Mouse to Marge Simpson, Top Cat to Toy Story and Bugs Bunny to Belleville Rendez-Vous a programme recently on Channel 4 charted the 100 Greatest Cartoons of all time, as voted for by the public! Whether you grew up on a diet of Tom & Jerry and Porky Pig or modern classics like South Park, The Simpsons and King of the Hill, everyone has their favourite cartoon and characters.

They covered everything from Popeye to cult Japanese Anime in what will be a comprehensive history of over a century of animation, as well as a poll to find out the nation's favourite cartoon of all time. Funny, nostalgic, heart-warming and occasionally down right rude, the 100 Greatest Cartoons was the ultimate tribute to the 'thwock' sound effect, to running in the air but not going anywhere, to being a mild mannered janitor by day but kung fu super hero at night, and of course to saying 'D'oh' every time you mess up.

Below are the results of the Top 100 and I watched for quite a few hours to get this list! It was a good watch though :)

The Results!

1. The Simpsons
2. Tom and Jerry
3. South Park
4. Toy Story/Toy Story 2
5. Family Guy
6. Shrek/Shrek 2
7. The Lion King
8. Spirited Away
9. The Incredibles
10. Bugs Bunny
11. The Flintstones
12. The Iron Giant
13. The Nightmare Before Christmas
14. Finding Nemo
15. Wallace and Gromit
16. Akira
17. Aladdin
18. The Ren and Stimpy Show
19. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
20. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies
21. Princess Mononoke
22. Monsters, Inc
23. Popeye
24. Danger Mouse
25. Pinnochio
26. Futurama
27. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
28. Spongebob Squarepants
29. Dungeons and Dragons
30. Daffy Duck
31. Mickey Mouse
32. Beavis and Butthead
33. Beauty and the Beast
34. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
35. Sylvester and Tweetie Pie
36. Magic Roundabout
37. Transformers
38. 101 Dalmations
39. Charlie Brown
40. Rugrats
41. King of the Hill
42. Samurai Jack
43. Ivor the Engine
44. Spider-Man
45. Pokemon
46. Inspector Gadget
47. Road Runner
48. Bod
49. Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
50. Donald Duck
51. The Little Mermaid
52. 2DTV
53. Fantasia
54. Thundercats
55. Winnie the Pooh
56. Fritz the Cat
57. The Jungle Book
58. The Powerpuff Girls
59. Chicken Run
60. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
61. Foghorn Leghorn
62. Battle of the Planets
63. Bambi
64. Top Cat
65. A Bug's Life
66. Captain Pugwash
67. The Snowman
68. Hong Kong Phooey
69. Wind in the Willows
70. Monty Python
71. Alice in Wonderland
72. Legend of the Overfiend
73. Pepe le Pew
74. Willo the Wisp
75. Lady and the Tramp
76. Belleville Rendezvous
77. The Adventures of Tintin
78. Noggin the Nog
79. Peter Pan
80. Yogi Bear
81. Barbar
82. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
83. Dumbo
84. Roobarb
85. Droopy Dog
86. Watership Down
87. Jamie and the Magic Torch
88. Woody Woodpecker
89. Felix the Cat
90. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
91. Mighty Mouse
92. Animal Farm
93. Mr Magoo
94. Queer Duck
95. Charley Says...
96. Betty Boop
97. Huckleberry Hound
98. Wait till Your Father Gets Home
99. The Pink Panther
100. Wacky Races

DreamWorks Writes Down Flushed

Flushed Away, the computer-animated feature hasn’t been performing as well as some of DreamWorks Animation’s previous releases, the studio has officially acknowledged that it its likely to take a write-down on the film based on domestic box office results for the third collaboration with Aardman Animations. The announcement was made as DreamWorks Animation filed a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the follow-on secondary offering $330 million of shares of Class A common stock.

DreamWorks SKG’s publicly traded animation unit invested approximately $142.9 into Flushed Away, which has earned a little more than $41 million in North America since opening on Nov. 3. The film has been released in several small foreign theatrical markets and is scheduled to bow in France on Nov. 29 and in the U.K. on Dec. 1 before rolling out in other foreign markets. The flick stands to do its best business in the U.K., where the popularity of Aardman and the film’s largely British voice cast should add up to boffo box office.
Foreign box office proved a saving grace for DreamWorks’ and Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Released last October, the clay-animated comedy grossed just north of $56 million in the U.S. but raked in more than $136 million overseas, bringing its worldwide take to $192.4 million.

Since DreamWorks Animation is still waiting to see how Flushed will perform overseas, the studio is currently unable to predict the ultimate amount of the third-quarter write-down. Other factors include eventual home video sales and revenues related to worldwide television distribution.

The Happy Feet - New Animated Film

The Happy Feet features Elijah Wood from the Lord of the Rings trilogy as the voice of Mumble, a young penguin born into a nation of singing Emperor penguins where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate. Since Mumble is cursed with being the worst singer in the world, he learns to rely on his tap dancing skills to catch the eye of a special young lady. Directed by George Miller, whose credits include the Babe and Mad Max films, Happy Feet is an animated musical comedy that also stars the voices of Brittany Murphy (King of the Hill) Hugh Jackman (Flushed Away/Xmen), Nicole Kidman (His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass/Moulan Rouge), Robin Williams (Robots) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix trilogy/Lord of the Rings), among others. The movie opens to a lot of positive reviews, most praising the film for its stunning visuals and soulful music.

Digit

Digit is one of the longest established digital agencies globally. They help leading businesses deliver moments that matter by creating award winning on-line environments and content, and more recently ground breaking physical interaction experiences.
The Digit London site is www.digitlondon.com

For example the Digital Aquarium. It was an interactive experience using 150 Motorola handsets suspended from the roof of a tank exhibition space outside the Institute of Contemporary Art.
On the outside of the tank was a number that consumers were invited to call in order to interact with the installation. The tank was programmed such that when the number was called it set off a chain reaction of the handsets calling each other, lighting up and ringing in a staggered formation, giving the effect of a swimming school of fish.

Another example is Motoglyph.
Digit were approached by Motorola to create an interactive experience that highlighted their commitment to music and youth culture.
By fusing cutting edge technology and simple tools they created a digital graffiti wall on which users could ‘spray’ their own unique signature or drawing. Whilst creating a ‘signatureMotoglyphlyph also simultaneously generated a soundscape. Both the soundtrack and the image could be sent to the users mobiles to be used as wallpaper and ring tone. The motoglyph won a lion at Cannes, was commissioned to be part of a major contemporary design exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and has toured the world from Japan to Argentina.

Golan Levin - messa di voce

We watched Messa di Voce during one of our lectures. It is a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs produced by a pair of abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualization software. This was done by Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman, Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara.

It was really interesting seeing how the technology could register where they are and what there doing to reacted to it visually. I especically liked the one with all the balls.There is a website about it if your interested - www.tmema.org/messa/messa.html

Sprite Idea

If I can get my Sprite to actually interact with objects I could make a pretty good idea that I'm sure could be sold to a company so no stealing my idea people this is my idea!!!
If I made a background, which is the floor plan for an exhibition show such as the Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC www.motorcycleshow.co.uk
Then as your Sprite walks up to a bike or stand a picture of the bike pops up, along with information about it. Like a virtual guide of the show, Big Companies such as Honda and Yamaha, I believe would pay for there products to be on the virtual tour!!!

Habbo Hotel (Sprite Work)

Habbo Hotel is a virtual community where you can hang out with your friends, meet new ones, create and decorate your own personal space and take part in a wide variety of games, activities and competitions. The characters that you can actually create to walk around and meet new people with are the kind of simplicity and design of what I think our sprites should be like. Maybe look at to see if our sprites can actually be made to interact with objects like in Habbo Hotel.
In the Habbo Hotel world you can actually buy furniture and credits to play games and do competitions so it also includes real money. Any way check it out and you will see what I mean.
The UK website is www.habbohotel.co.uk

John Lasseter

John Lasseter is one of my idols :D He is Vice President of Pixar and has made many animated films.
He is actually ranked No.1 in Premiere's 2004 annual Power 100 list with Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. They had ranked No.23 in 2003 and No.31 in 2002.
He went to the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. While attending California Institute of the Arts, he produced two animated films, both winners of the Student Academy Award for Animation, Lady and the Lamp in 1979 and Nitemare in 1980.
He was a member of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd. (which was later sold and became Pixar), where he designed and animated the computer-generated Stained Glass Knight character in the Steven Spielberg-produced film Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). He's also a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Short Films and Feature Animation Branch).
In 2004, he was honored by the Art Directors Guild with its prestigious "Outstanding Contribution To Cinematic Imagery" award, and received an honorary degree from the American Film Institute.
He is also very involved with Hayao Miyazaki as he is a close personal friend of his. John Lasseter actually introduced the DVD release of Hayao Miyazaki's Tenkû, Castle in the Sky, which is actually one of his favorite films. He also organised the English version of some of his films including Spirited Away.