Sorry there wasn’t one last week … had a brake … but back to normal now. More HERE.

These are fantastic…

Luke Butler has done a series of paintings capturing everything I love about the original Star Trek.

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This is a comic I did recently as a brake from my Three Letter Word comics.

I am loving the new Postman Pat advert for Spec-savers. If you haven’t seen it yet .. here it is….

There is also a fascinating making of too …..

I grew up on Postman Pat. It was one of my first introductions to animation as a child and what probably got me hooked on doing it myself. So was delighted to see this advert and am very envious of the people who got to work on it.

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You can now listen to the new Slayer album in full on their MySpace page HERE.

Another of my Three Letter Word Cartoons … more HERE.

More HERE.

Well it has been roughly three months since I last did an animators diary … now that’s a long time. I would be lying if I said I had been busy during this period. In fact I have been putting off the set construction a little due to it being incredibly boring and time consuming. BUT… I have a little free time in November coming up and I have set that aside to start filming ‘Creepy Treats’. So this has pushed me to get everything ready for November.

In the last three months I have finished the scripts for three episodes of ‘Creepy Treats’.

Sharif who does all the technical gizmo stuff for my films is going to be voicing one of the characters. He did a rough reading the other night and I nearly fell off my chair with laughter. These episodes are going to be truly strange and ridiculous.

I’ve started constructing the second set … the potion room.

I painted some self made bricks that I had cut from a polystyrene board..

… I then stuck them around the cut out arches creating frames for the doorways and window.

In this picture there are some furniture to give you an idea of what the potion room will be like.

Now comes the part that I have been putting off for the last three months … painting all the bricks.

This job takes hours to do and is very very boring.

But it is now done .. so I can start sticking on the bricks. Here’s one I made earlier…

I think the end result makes all those hours spent painting individual bricks worth while.

This video says it all…

You can also read an interesting Wired article on Tim & Erin HERE.