Latest Commercial work - The Slowskys Website
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted.
I just wanted to show the recent stop-motion work I did in June. This time it was for a website, something I’d never done before. It was interesting to see how stop-mo could be used on the internet. The company that made the site is called Honest and the site is for the Comcast commercial characters, The Slowskys (they are turtles). Anyway, when you go to the site, click on “Roof” and you will be taken to the Rube-Goldberg style fortune telling contraption that I animated. The guys at Honest did a great job at removing all the ugly rigs I had to use to animate the multiple flying objects, and I think it’s pretty funny. The only thing I would change is the sound effect for the rope-snapping towards the end.
Here’s the link: www.theslowskys.com
Recent clarification: I should clarify my post by saying that I was only the animator and rigger for this sequence. The large furniture piece that makes up the site, as well as all the props and elements for the Roof scene were built by Fangohr, www.fangohr.com. Design was done by Honest.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Nice work!!
jriggity
August 9th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Congratulations! That’s a really adorable-engaging-fun sequence!
(p.s. Found your blog via Justin a few weeks back. You’ve got a wonderful aesthetic going on.
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August 11th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Hi Sven, thanks! I should clarify my post by saying that I was only the animator and rigger for this sequence. The large furniture piece that makes up the site, as well as all the props and elements for the Roof scene were built by Fangohr, www.fangohr.com. Design was done by Honest.
Hopefully soon I’ll be posting more about work that is totally my own creation.
I was browsing over your website for scarletstarstudios and I’m excited about all the well documented experiences and information that you’ve got posted there. I love it when people are open to sharing. It takes the pain out of creativity when searching for help on methods.
I also noticed that you made the little short “The Great Escape” that I saw a while ago on the stop-motion haiku, and I loved this one. The gestures and subtle facial expressions are so funny and believable. And it’s also great that you can’t always tell what they are saying, but still get the gist of it. The stretchy pupils in the eyes are nice too.
Great to meet you!
I’ll be watching your updates.
-C
August 12th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I’ve been meaning to say… I think you might enjoy Shelley Noble’s blog, Notes from Halfland: http://notesfromhalfland.blogspot.com/
Shelley’s been slowly working on puppets and props for her stopmo labor-of-love, “Halfland,” for something like 15 years now… She’s got a very rustic/hand-crafted -yet- detail-oriented aesthetic which vibes with what I’ve seen of your little white mouse project. I don’t know if she’s checked out your blog yet, but I did mention it to her; one of her big joys is discovering like-minded artists out on the net.
August 12th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Yes, I did see her bog! She posted a comment on my site a few days ago so I followed the link. I haven’t had time to read much deeper than the postings about the tree, but the tree is great - I told her I liked the little tiles on it (I’m obsessed with details like that too) and I’m very excited about reading more and asking some questions later on. I didn’t know she’d been working on her project for 15 years. She must feel passionate about it to have devoted so much time.
I’m so glad to have connected with both of you! This will inspire me to keep posting.