Tenacious D

EDIT: Had to take it down - SORRY!


Something fun for a change ;)


After seeing this post at AICN -
And this post - from John Kricfalusi at his blog....

I thought I would share this music video - cos its just so damn good.
I guess they are like Marmite - you either love them or you don't...

Speaking of Tenacious D - Will Michel Gondry's "Be kind Rewind" with Jack Black (see plot outline below)have any VFX in it?

Surely JB or his friend (if he works in a video store) are budding 3D animators and in the movie do their own home made effects for the remakes to the quality level of this.
Now that would be funny. I can picture Jack watching his home made FX and say "Those are frikkin awesome, Dude" as he gestures madly and does a little spin :-/

Would anybody here willingly try to make bad FX for a feature? ;)

Plot Outline: A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.

That's Got to be funny.

Latest News

So I haven't said much recently, the fact being that I have been busy with the latest Vodacom Meerkat commercial (sans Motion Capture). Another animation house did the first two and we were chosen to redesign and animate the latest in the ongoing saga of Mo the dancing Meerkat. It turned out a darn side better than I thought it would but it still could be even better if we had more time.
I will post the finished spot once it flights locally.

Other news - I am off to Siggraph at the end of July (28th to be exact). Where I will be surrounded by truly geeky stuff and even geekier people. My peers!
Yes, Siggraph is indeed a fun and exciting week of the weird and wonderful in computer imaging. I will write a full report on my return, hopefully with pictures.

Lastly, here's a little funny animation of the Animator vs Animation.
Very clever and very well done. Simple in places and extremely complicated in others.
Check it out here!