Two shots from my LNWC film.
Progress: the sound is almost finished and I am really happy with it.
Louise F-in Bagnall everyone
Hello internet friends. The midnight toils of Late Night Work Club are slowly winding down, and Project #1 is nearly finished. Months of work, thousands of hours, enough caffeine (among other things) to kill a dozen large animals dead and some of the raddest animators making the raddest stuff. It wouldn’t be a true indie project if we weren’t running a few weeks behind, so stay tuned for more info in the very near future for release dates, possible screenings in your local megacity, and purchase info for those of you so inclined to support what we are doing. In the meantime, we offer you these gifs to snack on.
We thank you for your enthusiasm, and please take this time to prepare your minds for GHOST STORIES.
We’ll be in touch. Until then, stay tuned here for more cool stuff and hit us up on twitter.
A Rap-fueled tale of Redemption, produced at a recent environmentally themed film workshop:
MC Tra$h: Transformation Revelation
While cooking a nice organic broth, Rita Red Eye the Witch is shaken up by MC Tra$h and his wasteful ways. Now it’s time for her to show him how it feels to be dumped on.
Created by Dean Dillon, Richard Roche, Darragh Singleton, Anthony Brennan, Daniel Kulis, Tyrick Tschuma, Daniel Oladeji, David Oladeji, Shane Leech and Miracle Olowu at Brookfield Community Centre, Dublin.
The students wrote, designed, recorded dialogue, and animated their films over a five day workshop event in February.
This workshops were facilitated by Eimhin McNamara, Carol Freeman, Chris McLoughlin, and Pádraig Fagan, with the assistance of Silvia Nevado, Fiona McDonnell. Featuring original music by Chris McLoughlin and the rap stylings of Tyrick Tschuma, Daniel Oladeji, David Oladeji and Miracle Olowu.
The films were produced in conjunction with Ian Davis of the PURE Project (Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments), South Dublin County Council and Brookfield Community Facility.
“What is Music?” a #documentary #animation #film by Christian Robinson. So lovely!
The two latest PURE Project Animation Film School films are screening this evening at 1830, at Rua Red in Tallaght. This year we have a Noir-style detective story, and a Rap-fueled tale of redemption:
Mason Phelps: Private Eye
A suspicious crime has gone down by the old graveyard, and it’s up to Mason Phelps to outmanoeuvre the suspects and get to the bottom of this awful mess.Created by Danielle Norman, Nicole Smith, Shannon O’Reilly, Karl Wynne, Leah Byrne, Jamie O’Neill, Conor Halpin, Evan Thompson, Leah Menton, Dylan Hillary and Jessica Reddin of Collinstown Park Community College, Dublin.
MC Tra$h: Transformation Revelation
While cooking a nice organic broth, Rita Red Eye the Witch is shaken up by MC Tra$h and his wasteful ways. Now it’s time for her to show him how it feels to be dumped on.Created by Dean Dillon, Richard Roche, Darragh Singleton, Anthony Brennan, Daniel Kulis, Tyrick Tschuma, Daniel Oladeji, David Oladeji, Shane Leech and Miracle Olowu at Brookfield Community Centre, Dublin.
The students wrote, designed, recorded dialogue, and animated their films over two week-long workshop events in February.
These workshops were facilitated by Eimhin McNamara, Carol Freeman, Chris McLoughlin, Pádraig Fagan, and Christina O’Donovan, with the assistance of Silvia Nevado, Catríona Reilly, Fiona McDonnell and Marie O’Connell. Featuring original music by Chris McLoughlin and, on MC Tra$h, the rap stylings of Tyrick Tschuma, Daniel Oladeji, David Oladeji and Miracle Olowu.
The films were produced in conjunction with Ian Davis of the PURE Project (Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments), South Dublin County Council, Brookfield Community Facility and Collinstown Park Community College.
They will be available to view on-line after the premiere.
Some drawings from Villagers “Cecelia & Her Selfhood” music video directed and animated by Adrien Merigeau.
Some of Adrien’s amazing drawings from the music video I helped out a little with: https://vimeo.com/24116255
Basilisk - student short film by Ami Thompson (Sheridan College).
She had been intern at Ghibli and Disney studios.
So gooooood
A quick editorial cartoon about the intersection of self-pity, entitlement, rape, territoriality, misogyny and fear of women. You see it all over the place online in the form of Men’s Rights Activists (of whom there are a few reasonable non-misogynists), Men Going Their Own Way, Pick Up Artists, and dudes touting the “Red Pill”, because The Matrix is a good movie. Look any of these up if you have the stomach for it. These are extreme examples, but watered-down forms of these ideas are everywhere.
In lurking their blogs and youtube channels for a while, I’ve noticed that beyond the standard patriarchal chauvinism there is this deep fear of women - what they will do to me, how they will reject me, how they will use me, how they are changing society in a way that does not favor me, how they are making men into something I don’t like, how they are making themselves into something I don’t like, that they won’t give me what I want, and that they won’t give me what I think is rightfully mine. This goes beyond fear of feminism- this is fear of women at its purest. And that, to quote a puppet, leads to anger and hate. It’s sad.
I am a feminist. I think there’s enough ice cream to go around, but it does mean those of us with 3 scoops might have to give one or two up. Also, The Matrix is a fun movie but probably not anything you should be basing a philosophy on.
EDIT: I WROTE A LENGTHY POST ABOUT THIS HERE.
EDIT: DUE TO AN ALARMING NUMBER OF REQUESTS, THERE ARE NOW TSHIRTS. 25% GOES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD.
Hmmmmm that’s good Benson
Some last year gifs from this.
I actually have a couple of shorts in this style/world/whatever in the pipe somewhere. Just have to finish them.
I love them boils and pops you do be doing Bensonator
About 2 years or so ago, Adrien Merigeau asked me to get involved with a music video project he was working on for the Villager’s song “Cecelia and her Selfhood”
Here’s what I came up: a stop-motion mini fable featuring a jackal and a dragon, which runs in parallel to the main narrative of the video.
Enjoy!
The dragon and jackal are now available as prints:
http://en.dawanda.com/product/25548341-The-Dragon-Polaroid-Print
http://en.dawanda.com/product/25548325-The-Jackal-Polaroid-Print
