Los Campeones de La Lucha Libre will be screening twice:

Tuesday, April 21  7:25 PM
Wednesday, April 22  4:45 PM

Screenings take place at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema – hope to see you there!

Festival site HERE

This news has already been posted on our Toonboom-bastic blog.

A little reminder that Eddie and I will be in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil early next month to demonstrate what Toonboom’s ANIMATE can do. More details to come later. In the meantime, please save these dates:

MEXICO CITY – March 31

SAO PAOLO – April 6

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We’ve uploaded our previous Flash cartoons, including ‘The Fuzz’ and our first Lucha Libre work ‘Rudo By Night’ (Intro, Parts 1&2 are up now – part 3 will be uploaded Tuesday!)

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We’re up to our hairlines in files, folders, artwork and junk as we try and sort through 2 x lifetimes of personal possesions and work, in an attempt to pack up our Sydney studio

It started like this on Sunday:

But by Friday was starting to get a little more under control:

If anyone in Sydney is reading this, come on down and grab yourself that Wacom tablet, Epson Printer, computer speakers or Animation reference book you have always wanted.  We are RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

Sad day in LA with the news that Lux Interior from The Cramps had passed away. We got to know Lux when he took on the part of Rayo X in our movie, Los Campeones.

UPDATE: The screening at The Egyptian was wonderful, and there was a nice dedication to Lux beforehand.  Below is his onscreen credit (Thanks to all the true friends, and friends of Fwak! who turned up in support)

We needed a creepy, unearthly yet endearing voice for Rayo X, and after testing many actors, it was apparent that the role was made for Lux. Working with him was both a blast and an honor…Tomorrow night will be a sadder experience hearing his voice ring out at The Egyptian, and a little unnerving when Rayo utters Lux’s favorite line in the movie ‘Ah, the heady stench of death’.

R.I.P.

Photos from our recording session (1/27/2007):




With Lili and Jazzy.


L to R: Phofo, Wes, Jim, Lili & Jazzy, Lux, Eddie, Damienne

Los Campeones Premiere screening:  Feb 5th, 7.30pm at the Egyptian Theater. Tickets – $10.

Come along and say hi…

This is a city background that Eddie created in ToonBoom Animate. Testing out camera moves here, and using 3D space – this is SO COOL!!!



And here is another video (same scene) where the cars on the street are moving.



We also want to share with you the rendered Quicktime video but it has been hours and the scene still has not fully rendered. Scene length = 99 frames; render time = 3 hours???

Here is the Quicktime export from Animate
Multiplane Camera – City from Eddie Mort on Vimeo.

We hope you can make it to our Los Campeones screening at The Egyptian Theater next month. Feb 5th. @ 7.30pm

In the meantime, we are proud to announce that a 35mm print of Los Campeones will also be showing in Bologna, Italy at the 11th Annual Future Film Festival , in the Midnight Madness program category. European viewers will be in for a treat because this print is the Spanish language version that premiered in Mexico in October 2008. The Future Film Festival runs from January 27th – February 1st 2009.

In response to the popular question: Will there be a DVD release of Los Campeones? YES! This is in the works right now We will keep you posted.

If you are in Los Angeles, come along and say hello

Did you all know that Ricardo Montalban was in Mucha Lucha?
He played “The Ghost of Honor” in Season 1′s Honor Thy Lucha episode.