New tshirt: The 3 Cacmigos

These 3 little flying cactus cherubs serenade Cornzilla in my 29 seconds of nonsense for the Doritos ad comp. (please vote if you get a chance …. link then hit “view & vote” then search for “monster”)

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The latest lot of wordy gems involve two geniuses, monsters tackling aliens and a first person smash 'em in the gob game...

Animation of serenading cacti and giant killer corn

A little while ago I conjured up Ukulele-playing, flying cactus cherub takes to the skies, which was an updated version of my little guys in Lucha Libre...


Because of a little downtime at work -thanks to the economic boogeyman scaring away all the jobs - I decided to try and animate the little green dude in Flash.

At first, I got him plucking a riff from his ukukele and then got him flapping his wings furiously. This produced a giggle from both me and my beloved, so I decided to get a little bit more adventurous... that's when an ad for Doritos (> view & vote > search for "monster) came on.

The triangular snack food company has a competition for people to create a TV ad, so, rising to the challenge, after a full day of animating experience, I decided to do a 29 second TV commercial. (> view & vote > search for "monster") If you get a chance, please vote for my ad by following this link, hitting View & vote and searching for "monster".

The first, and main horror, was to not only get my little guy flapping about whilst playing guitar, but to lip synch him ... in Spanish.

Unfortuantely my Spanish only extends to asking for beer and where the toilet is. However, after much keyframe shifting and cussing, I got him serenading quite nicely - and managed to hide his mouth, a-la Austin Powers' style, for half the ad.

I had to add a trumpet guy, so I created Prick, the trumpet -playing, flying cactus cherub. And there was a clap-break at the end, so I'm proud to introduce Clappy the clapping, flying ca ... you get the idea.

Then came Cornzilla - the devourer of tasty flavours, who basically eats all the other characters except for our flying friends.

Below are all my little guys in all their static glory.

Please vote for my ad... here. You could win prizes too!

Hurty, Clappy and Prick

Cornzilla
Lil' Corn, Sweet Sweet Chilli, Cheesey Magoo, La Mescaline, MC Cheesey Cheese

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The last batch of CGS tales come to us from various realms in the CG Kingdom. From the movies, I digitally inked up a suitably comic book-styled piece on Watchmen. From the book world, comes a nice walkthrough on how a key image, Zhetri, was created for the shiny EXOTIQUE 4 tome. Another walkthrough steps us through the glorious Steamnocchio - a major winner in the latest CGChallenge. Finally, the games world get 2 big features for the Mirror's Edge and Killzone 2.

Ukulele-playing, flying cactus cherub takes to the skies

Based on my little flying dudes here.

I’ve been meaning to add a few more limbs to my spikey little friend for quite sometime...

RGB causes fisticuffs

The good folk at red bubble use R,G and B as an example at trade shows. Apparently my three colourful, angry little guys are quite popular...

"If you happen to be at a trade show and you are test printing using a bigfatrobot tee then you must fight many men when it comes out the other side in order to claim it as yours. Some will even lie as you are standing beside them and tell everyone it’s their artwork. It can get nasty."

Oddly proud to think that my work induces fisticuffs.

Mike the Twit

Had some spare moments last night and whipped up a Twitter mascot for my new soon-to-be finished portfolio site. Still needs some tweaks, but here I am in all my blue man glory.