Loopdeloop - FUTURE

Captain Kirk Quirk sure has sex with a lot of aliens. This song may be the best I've ever done. Stay turned for the Band Camp link.

Download the song here!

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Loopdeloop - HISTORY

I don't know which compulsion was greater: drawing Marie Antoinette in the bathtub eating cake OR doing a ukulele cover of Queen.

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Loopdeloop - MAD

To celebrate a long running sponsorship by Madman Entertainment, July's Loopdeloop theme was MAD, so I dove headfirst into my own madness to create this loop. Apathy, self-depreciation, vacancy, sexual-frustration and awesome beards burst forth from my head, animated to an amazing soundtrack done by The Stealing Orchestra.

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Loopdeloop - ELEMENTS

This July, Loopdeloop took part in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival and adopted their theme of ELEMENTS.

While my loop wasn't the only Captain Planet themed one (nor the funniest), it was certainly the longest. If you can't make a joke funny, make it long. While I was awfully sick of my one joke premise by the end of animating, I still remember a time when I thought it was hilarious. That seems like so long ago.

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Loopdeloop - PLAY

My inital concept for Loopdeloop's July theme of PLAY was to have two boys having a war style shoot-off using fake guns (sticks or carboard tubes) but make it hyper violent. Like how we imagined it to be when playing it as kids. Because the loops needed to be kept "kid friendly" due to Wheelbarrow's sponsership and Megaforce doing a better job at the concept than I could ever hope to do, I had to switch course.

Along the same lines of games we used to play as kids, I remembered the idea of "The floor is lava" It's a game that everyone played but didn't learn off anyone. How did millions of kids simultaniously come to the same conclusion of pretending the floor is lava by themselves? Is it a universal facination with lava that kids have? Capturing their collective imaginations the same way that something like dinosaurs do?

Regarless, this is how I remember the game to be.

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Loopdeloop - ONE

Loopdeloop is turning ONE this month, so they're celebrating with the loneliest theme, ONE.

I had originally considered doing a Highlander theme (THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!), however, having never seen the film and a concept that started to get bigger than I cared to do in a month, I decided to change Loops mid stream. Drawing from a time when vampires were men and counting was sexy, this month's loop is a homage to Count Von Count. Counting one of things.

I tried to draw a cat as one of the things, but kind of failed, so it was replaced by a blender.

Also, I'm really in love with the song I used, In Fielder by Miro Belle. It's free under Creative Commons, so check it out. And remix it if you want.

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Sub note: I recently found out that the Count had a girlfriend The Countess. I actually remember the "Twenty Something" segment from when I was a kid, but not The Countess.

Loopdeloop - LIQUID

Loopdeloop teamed up with MTV's Liquid Television this month to bring you, the viewing audience, the theme LIQUID.

Vaguely inspired by Rocketpanda's Hotel Trip, I wanted to create a series of characters expelling bodily liquid in time with fast paced music. Having already covered puke in an earlier Loopdeloop and Ivan Dixon summarising peeing better than I'd hope to, I settled on blood.

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Loopdeloop - IDIOTS

My mind immediately went to John Kennedy Toole's book A Confederacy of Dunces for Loopdeloop's February theme IDIOTS. I really loved the idiotic main character Ignatius J Reilly and his strong involvement with hotdogs, so the loop all kind of fell into place conceptually.

I'm not sure if the reference is too obscure (on the screening night I was asked "Is your loop about idiot Americans?"), however the up side is that when people get it, they love it, if only for the fact they get it.


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Loopdeloop - CHEESE DREAMS

When Loopdeloop ran the theme CHEESE DREAMS in support of Rubber House's animated show of the same name, I was bit short for ideas. While I tend to remember most of my dreams, none of them are particularly interesting. They're usually along the lines of "I was going to the supermarket, but then I never made it to the supermarket despite driving for a really long time, then I woke up".

What I settled on my animation was the depiction of a friend (featured in the animation) and her nightmarish combination of food, a pickle covered in vinegar, while she eats the only thing her delicate palette can handle, a single slice of white bread. This resulted in something a lot more Freudian than I was intending, but any dirty thoughts are projected upon the loop by the viewer.

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Loopdeloop - CONDOMS

In November, Loopdeloop teamed up with YEAH (Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS) to promote World Aids Day and went with the theme CONDOMS. 

For my animation I wanted to try a different style of illustration that's usually limited to bored sketches in meetings. After deciding on the initial character and his banshee appendage, the rest was just building layers of flair and style upon that.

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Loopdeloop - SPOOKY

My October entry to Loopdeloop's Halloween appropriate theme SPOOKY covers my favorite horror / basketball movie of all time, Teen Wolf (even better than Space Jam). I had started doing this animation with the entire point being I get to animate Teen Wolf doing a bitchin' slam dunk, however somewhere along the way I forgot about that. But it does have some sweet metal licks.

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Loopdeloop - DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

In September, Loopdeloop was involved in the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival with a permanent installation in The Warren, a bar set up at the Festival Hub. The installation was a collection of the best loops up to that point as well as some RABBIT themed animations done especially for the bar.

To tie all the loops together, I created some short animations of a rabbit looking through keyholes, ala Alice in Wonderland, viewing the secret animations on the other side. A little bit sexual, in a rather unsexy way.

A cut down version of this animation can be seen on the Loopdeloop website.

Loopdeloop - OPPOSITES

My entry into Loopdeloop's June theme OPPOSITES.

I've always been fascinated by Bizzaro Superman ever since they mentioned it on Seinfield that one episode. So the first thing I thought of when Loopdeloop announced their theme was the ultimate showdown between Bizzaro and his (far more boring) antagonist Superman.

I did encounter a lot of confusion with my choice of 60's comic book B Characters (he was in an episode of Smallville though), however apparently there was enough Bizzaro love to be the ultimate winner of June's Loops.

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Loopdeloop - LAUNCH

A homage to my favorite party host Andrew WK done for the launch of Loopdeloop, the monthly animation challenge. The thing I am most proud of is my ukulele cover of A.W.K's seminal anthem, Party Till You Puke.

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Secret Handshake - Jesus

Created for the now defunct Secret Handshake Animation Club for their theme "Jesus" (which I picked for winning the month prior). These were basically animated short films created in a month, that almost ended up killing me every time.

Secret Handshake - Magic

Five People I'm Pretty Sure Are Magic. Created for the late Secret Handshake Animation Club. This was my first entry and it was so much fun I came back for many month following.