October 9, 2006

September 24, 2006

  • Heaven Vs Hell – the outcome!

    Mephisto gives Santo the back of his hand

    El Hijo del Santo & Mistico versus Mephisto and Averno was everything Lucha Libre should be, and more.  Wes Massey has taken some of the best Lucha pics I’ve seen in ages here.

    Santo is amazing.  Mistico hurt his knee, so Santo worked the whole second fall solo.  The clip below shows he’s still got it

    Then Mistico came back to hit his awesome finisher and win the match.  Truly amazing stuff…

September 15, 2006

September 13, 2006

September 7, 2006

September 6, 2006

  • Los Campeones – Flash Storyboards


    Eddie:  I’m doing things a little different than I usually do, by utlilizing Flash to create the storyboards from my initial sketchy thumbnails.  The advantage is that I get to make the storyboards more like mini-layouts, and also get to use existing character models.  It’s a more time consuming process, but I figure it will make for a better animatic, and really make things easier for animators when it comes time for that stage of the production.  Having the Wacom Cintiq has really helped with this; I’d hate to think how frustrated I’d be right now scratching around on my old tablet!


    Below are some random pages from Act I







September 4, 2006

  • Cartoon Modern is cool! - Lili


    Petroushka production cel by Bill LittleJohn

    Recently, Eddie received Amid Amidi’s Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950′s Animation  as a birthday gift. (No it wasn’t from me… I would have bought this for myself!)

    Neither of us have had time to “read” it yet but so far we think it’s an awesome book. There are so many inspirational images… such a wealth of cool stuff. Congratulations and thanks to Amid for doing this! Everybody, go order a copy now!

    The only problem is that this book makes you wish that all these groovy-looking films were available on DVD. We are looking forward to www.cartoonbrewfilms.com !!!


    Magoo BG by Jules Engel
    (click to enlarge)

August 26, 2006

  • More eddiemuerte

     

    A 52-minute continuous mix is available for download here! (50mb – right click ‘save target as’.  Dial-up people – contact us and Eddie can arrange to put it on CD for you)

August 24, 2006

August 14, 2006

  • Meeting Kookie

    Today was the voice recording session for our “Here’s Jimmy” pilot cartoon, and we were graced with the presence of none other than Mr. Edd Kookie Byrnes (voicing himself) at North Hollywood Sound studio. Edd was so cool. It was a pleasure.



    Edd Byrnes: “Where’s my comb?”



    Autograph!


    Might I add that this was also  Fwak Animation‘s first ever voice recording session in L.A. (operating as Fwak! Animation Inc. USA) It was a blast, and many thanks to everyone who contributed their vocal talents!


    Jim Cherry: JIMMY, DR. BILL
    Mary Forrest: LUDMILLA
    Damienne Merlina: SVETLANA
    Phofo: FRANKIE SINATRA (and music production)
    Dale Sizer: ROCKABILLY GUY
    Edd Byrnes: KOOKIE

    Voice Director: Eddie Mort


    Without giving too much away at this point in time, here are some sneak peek layout drawings from “Here’s Jimmy: Jimmy Gets Cool” – which have yet to be color-styled and animated when time permits.


    Clean-up/layouts by Lili

    Clean-up/layouts by Eddie

    *UPDATE* Edd mentioned that he has also appeared in “77 Sunset Strip” comic books. Here are some images found on the web, via this flickr set.

    Los Campeones Update


    This Thursday 17th., we will be holding the first round of voice actor auditions for Los Campeones. It will be an intense day as there are many parts in this show. Well, it’s our biggest production yet. Exciting and scary at the same time.

    Things have been progressing well, with the script completed, a big chunk of characters designed, background design progressing, and storyboards well underway.  More soon…

    Mucha Lucha especial!

    Thanks, Jesse Justice!  This is awesome!


    Jazzy dog


    I always think it’s kinda corny when people blog about and share photos of their pets.  So I’ll only do this once. Meet Jazzy, the 12 year old Boston terrier that I am fostering this week, on behalf of  BostonBuddies.org (Boston terrier rescue group) She may be old and fat but she is really supersweet and I did the really corny thing of setting her up with a Myspace page. I hope I won’t get too attached and that she will be adopted into a nice new home.     - Lili