Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Taste this...

Hey folks,

We've been busy working away on a new project for the last 2 weeks and we're finally finished. So here's what the idea was. A kids show here in NZ, Studio 2, ran a competition asking kids to make a comic strip starring the "Colgate Taste Buddies" as part of a month long dental hygene promotion. The winning entry would then be turned into an animated short made by.....us!! We thought this was a pretty cool idea, so we were keen to jump aboard (even though once again we had an ungodly time limit of only 2 weeks).

So here's the winning entry that we chose, we felt this entry had the most potential for some great characters. The main bad guy, Mouth Evil (whom I got to provide the voice for), was too cool a character to pass up. Big props have to go to Tim for his kick ass job animating the villian, nice job dude!!





Pretty cool aye? Now here's our redesign attempts....



and here's the final animated short. Hope you all enjoy it. (If the Youtube player below doesn't work, head over to www.mukpuddy.com and check it out under animation).
Ryan.


10 comments:

SACKS said...

"Ow, My cheeks HURT!" The best yet from the Muk crew. I loved it. I really wanted to see more episodes. BTW, how were the book sales doing through Lulu. Did things work out well? Swing by my blog to peep these new custom toys I painted.
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Luis F. Masallera said...

nice:D
i just thought i should have a look at your blog while i was brushing my teeth, and then this, haha...

Scheurbert said...

Kind of sad but I laughed a lot when the Sour Buddy landed in the tongue mobile.

Great work!

Tyler said...

HA! Nice, really fun

Señor Chips said...

holy crap!!!!

Alden V said...

LOL. i love these!!!

eff said...

This is so creative and it's really nice to have animated this stuff from the kids' minds... The only problem was that the mouth thing looked more like an inverted 'D' than a mouth at some points...but it's still awesome!

Johnny Yanok said...

Great Great work!!! Super cute characters!

Jarrett said...

props to you! great work all around.

Mukpuddy said...

Cheers everyone for the kind words. Glad you all liked it.