Stop it, you're making me plush!

Heres some more toys me and my fiance have been busy making. Some more monstery ones and a retarded turtle, my favorite kind of turtle by the way!!

Sparkle Friends Ep10: What Becomes of the Broken Gungi

Well, this is it, the last episode of Sparkle Friends. Amazingly we got away with ending it on a cliffhanger (hoping kids will demand a 2nd series).

Check it out at the usual spot under animation at www.mukpuddy.com

By the way, check out our inspiration for the title and title card of the episode. How did we get away with this stuff!

Testing testing 1 2 3

Hey folks,

Thought we'd just test the whole you tube thing on our blog. So we've chosen one of our very first animated shorts "Killing Dino".

For those of you who haven't seen the short on our website, here's a little rundown.
A few years ago, a friend of ours was playing his guitar when his 2 year old daughter picked up a mic and started to freestyle a little song, which explains why she's a little hard to understand, but one thing is clear, she claims to have killed all the dinosaurs! Enjoy (if it works).

I Saw a Sign

Hey folks, well yesterday was a momentous day here at Mukpuddy......We got studio signage! We've been here in the new studio for about 4 months now.

To mark the occasion, we took photos.....with a camera!

As you can see we put forward the powerhouse that is Tim Evans to help our landlord Brad (on the right) put up the sign. Go Tim go!



Also, we got a nice mention over at Drawn. So a big thanks to Jared for the plug, we really appreciate it.

Plushy plushness

Having been inspired by the hugely talented Anna Chambers I decided to have a go at making some plush toys of my own. So with the help of my awesome fiance Karla, who did all the sewing (and did an unbelievable job I might add!!), I did. We've got heaps more ideas, so stay tuned!! Ganeesh is my favourite!!!

-Alex

Sparkle Friends Ep9: Sparkle Show

Hey folks,

Well here's episode 9 of Sparkle Friends. Getting close to the end now. The series has actually finished on New Zealand TV a few weeks ago. Feedback has been great, kids seem to love the show, so that's good news for us. This episode in particular seemed to sit well with the kids, which made us happy, as it was quite a bit different from previous episodes.

As always, we can't post it here, but check it out under animation at www.mukpuddy.com

New Muk Site

Hey folks,

I suspect most of you are at the San Diego comic con this weekend.....so yeah.....we're not, and we're extremely jelous! Hope those of you who are going have a great time, we enjoyed it last year, and really hope to go next year. Tis a long way from New Zealand, and many many mulahs.

Anyway, on to the good stuff.....

We've finally finished our brand new site, we've been meaning to redesign it for some time, but only now have we had a chance to do it, plus with Jeremy joining the Muk team, it was an awesome chance for a fresh start.

Go check it out www.mukpuddy.com

The idea was to make it an extremely simple and easy to navigate site, but at the same time we wanted to keep it fun and cartoony. Hopefully we pulled it off.

Yayyy

To my surprise I found out that I got a plug on Drawn, I find this blog to be one of the best ways for me to find inspiration, they've featured so many cool artists, and I'm really stoked to be a part of that. So a big thanks to the peeps over at Drawn, you guys do a fantastic job!

To celebrate, heres a mermaid....

Sparkle Friends Ep7: Sparkletron

Hey folks,

here's episode 7 of Sparkle Friends for your viewing pleasure. This is by far the most......ummmm......insane ep we've made. I even got to record my first big 80's hit for the soundtrack.

Check it out on the cartoons page at www.mukpuddy.com

Enjoy.

Some sketches...

Heres some sketches from Episode 6 of "Sparkle Friends". Seeing as we've got a cast of 6 regular characters, the one thing I look forward to on this show is designing new characters, so when the idea came up to put a Gunge monster in the episode we were all pretty excited at what the outcome would be. It's kinda hard with a week turn around and such a small team, to do some decent character desgn or development, but I gave it my best and here are some of the results.....

-Alex

Sparkle Friends Episode 6:

Hey all,

We tried to push ourselves a little further every week with this show and this is the episode which we kinda went a bit crazy on.

As if our 1 week turnaround wasn't insane enough, for some reason we thought, "hey, why not do a video game episode with each character in a different video game, that sounds easy".

Foolish boys.

Although it was an insanely hard week, we're stoked with how the episode turned out.

Check it out on the cartoons page at www.mukpuddy.com
Hope you like it.

Sparkle Friends EP5!!

Hey all,

here's episode 5 of Sparkle Friends for your viewing pleasure.

We were really pleased with how this ep turned out. We kinda pushed the limits of our crazy one week turnaround on this one.
Hope you all enjoy it, and we'll see you back here same time next week for episode 6.

Check out ep5 on the cartoon page at www.mukpuddy.com