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Sorry folks it looks like the video to Commando has been taken down. It was a Fan Video and i made absolutely no money from it . Maybe if id just uploaded the track and stuck an Album cover in front of it that'd make things ok. Or maybe there's an official video on the way . Which is fine by me. I did try uploading to another site but as soon as it was up it was taken down. So someone really does'nt want it available. The other three videos i've produced are still up on my channel and are freely available at the present but if the copyright holders dont want them around then there's nothing i can do about it. And will sadly mean i wont be producing anymore, which will be a real shame because they are fun to do and people get pleasure out of them. Nothing more to add except have a Great New Year. Peace

t BBC are bringing back Christmas Top Of The Pops for a one off Here's what i'd like to see as a countdown

thought this would be a nice change form all those fluffy Snowmen apart from Raymond Briggs's of course. which is genius.

I'll try and post some card's i've sent to friends over the years here's the first

There have been quite a few Blog postings about the passing of Oliver Postgate ,thought i'd add my own. If you're from the UK and you're of a certain age Oliver Postgate's name and voice are as familiar as The Queen's. I watched Pogle's Wood at Nursery School The Clangers At Infants and though i'd never admit it at the time Bagpuss while being off sick from Secondary School. What i'm still aware of is how organic all of his and his creative partner Peter Firmins work seems even now. I went with some friends to a big Animation festival in Cardiff 97 or 98 ?the big draw for the festival was the presence of ILM. The Phantom Menace was upcoming and the main event hall was packed with people waiting to get a whiff of the new Star Wars film or maybe even some stories of the early groundbreaking days . A representative from ILM preceded the event by såying he could not talk or say anything about the new Star Wars film but he was going to give us a talk about ...

Finally at the season where we're meant to be Jolly . Doing some 'other' work which is not fun or cool. Years back i saw this incredible short film from the National Film board Of Canada. It may have been shown on The ITV Schools programme Picture Box.Thats one of the good things about the weird wide web nearly everything you half remember is just a few clicks away. Check out this amazing film . Grant Munro's TOYS

The later Jerky Boys recordings were kinda laboured and puerile,. But the first album Cd ,Cassette whatever Was fast hit em hard hilarity. With Phone Pranks very much in the news in the UK at present i put up one of my favourite Jerky Boy moments

At some point there will be a longer version Of Basement uploaded,Ideally it should be for Halloween but that's out the window for this year . Sometime in the future though.It will include a tribute to one of my favourite Horror films the seminal NOTLD

My new Ramones Video is finally finished and should be uploaded either later today (Sat 25th or Sun) i planned to have it done weeks ago but. Stuff happens. Its a video of 'Chain Saw' with some added bits. I Had lots of fun planning it out.Not so much fun trying to figure out how to actually achieve what i wanted to . Still if anyone reads my blog let me know what you think.

And this is a sneek peak at one of the scenes.More to come.....

I've been busy trying to finish off various bits of animation . Including another Horror themed video again featuring Da Bruders aka (The Ramones) Hoping to have it out in a couple of weeks Maybe sooner .

ink and digital colour

Ramones Cartoon Commando @ Yahoo! Video

Pretty much all the things in the second proper storyboard is in the final animation . Apart from the appearence of Alfred E Nueman. And a cameo of Jules Feiffer's Munro character .It didnt quite fit in.

This is the first rough storyboard i scribbled down on a train towards the end of last year (2007). I was going to put in a prologue with Johnny way back in 1968 watching Walter Kronkite's classic CBS News report following the Tet Offensive in Vietnam,saying that America was heading for a stalemate. I can only guess what Johnny's feelings about this would have been. I only dropped it because i thought it would slow things down. Fast in, Slow out ?I dont know if it would have made things better.

This version of another Ramones song has been up on Youtube for a couple of months, so i thought id put up some storyboards and better quality framegrabs. There were a few things i had to exclude because they just would'nt fit into the length of the song.

These guys were popular at the time i sketched them. Some of them still are

Ishibashi Mitsyuki and Osada Yuko's video 'Jack Nicholson' for the Japanese punk band Bloodthirsty Butchers was a big inspiration. I came across an article in 'Shots' magazine and bought the onedotzero 4 Dvd in which it was one of many animations featured. Its limited animation but executed brilliantly. The Graphics are really strong

So this was the result. It's been up about a year now. But the animation was purposely jerky and the more it seemed (hinged) the more it made me laugh. Its been altered in After Effects to give it an oldish look.

I always thought it would be fun to do an animation to a Ramones song. So inspired by all those Saturday morning cartoons like The Osmonds,Jackson Five,Josie And The Pussycats as well as The Beatles of course. I did just that. Did you know The Beatles Cartoons were'nt shown in the UK (and only then in a truncated version) till the 80's ? The Beatles were kind of embarrassed by them. The first animation was to the song Judy Is A Punk. which i rediscovered when i saw 'The Royal Tenenbaums' its a great track.

I found an old audio clip of Orson Welles berating a studio engineer which cracks me up . I did a quick sketch of the great man and would love to do an animation of it, time permitting.