Transmission

JDW's short film, Transmission, is finally online. Here it is for you to enjoy.
This will most likely serve as our final post.
Bye!

Transmission

Via my personal blog:

This is a gif from my thesis film, Transmission.

It's about the four-eyed creature you see above, Quad-Clops, and his dog, 2D, after they find a radio in the barren post-apocalyptic wasteland that is their home, and their journey to find new life.

The short film was completely hand-animated by me in Flash over the course of six months, though I've been developing the story for a couple years. Music for the film was recorded by Chris Roberts, and we're working on putting it out on an extremely limited edition set of tapes through Otherworldly Mystics if anyone's interested.

The film will be premiering at SVA's Dusty Film Festival on May 7th at the SVA Theater on 333 W23rd St in New York City, and after that I'm going to look into submitting it to festivals before putting it publicly online. But I may find a way to make it available to those that really want to see it.

Stay tuned!

This is basically what made me leave VFH behind a year or so ago, so I figured now's about time you knew why.

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! is an animated short by Jake Armstrong, which served as his senior year thesis film at the School of Visual Arts this year. I previously got to see this film last month at SVA's Thesis Screening, and I personally felt that this short was the best in show, and easily surpassed most of the other students' work in terms of quality and design.

Now, thanks to Cartoon Brew and their Cartoon Brew TV program, you too can now watch Jake Armstrong's great film. Also be sure to check out CB's original post for Alpha-9, which includes some insight about the film from Jake himself; and also check out his blog at jakehatesyou.blogspot.com for some behinds the scenes work on Alpha-9 as well as other things he's worked on recently.