We've been Podcasted...

Hey everyone, not an artwork update this time, just some really really cool news!!! Our music video we made for Pluto is one of the shorts being showcased on this weeks "Channel Frederator" podcast. We're huge fans of Channel Frederator and the Frederator Studios as a whole, and it's a real blast to be picked!!!

So a big thank you goes out to Melissa Wolfe and the team at Channel Frederator.... you guys rock!!!!

http://www.channelfrederator.com/

Kids Book..

Hey everyone, well it's time for a new update and we thought we'd post a few piccys from a kids book we've just finished. Creating kids books is something we've always wanted to get into, and we've got no shortage of our own ideas, but, honestly, illustrating this book has been quite a trying experience.

Some more skin for ya...

Since I posted the pic of my knucks, I thought I'd post some of my other tattoos that my Mrs has done on me!!! The thinking behind my tattoos is that I really want stuff that has inspired me to be the artist I am today....

I have more planned too, my Samurai Jack, Fosters, Mojo Jojo and Fraggle Rock tattoos are yet to come!!

-Alex

Tat2

Just thought I'd post a pic of my newest tattoo, I wanted something silly and this was the result.....

It was done by my awesome fiance.... http://www.karla78.com

-Alex

Mumfin Book Designs

Hi peoples, Tim here.

Recently, Ryan's been writing a kids book called, Mumfin. So I thought I'd have a go at designing the characters. This is the little boy so far. There's also a little girl and Mumfin himself (a creature thingy) so I'll probably do them to when i have a spare moment.

We're considering doing it in anaglyph 3d (the red and green glasses kind) so I'll do some tests and see if it's worth doing. I'll post them up for some feedback too, once they're done.

Enjoy

Tim

Don't flash me your cold hard one!!!!

Our buddy Aaron over at Cold Hard Flash has, once again, been nice enough to give us and our music video we did for Pluto a small plug on his site.... so go check it out!!!

Thanks Aaron, we owe you one pal!!!

Xmas Stockings

For no real reason, just thought I'd post a pic of the Christmas stockings I made with my girlfriend Karla!! It was deemed necessary to give the boy ones willies!!

-Alex

Engrish

Check out this site. Engrish.com. You'll waste many an hour laughing your socks right off!
Here's an example of the gems you'll find!...

Pluto - Baby Cruel Video

OOPS, LINK IS FIXED NOW. SORRY!!

Well, we're finally aloud to reveal the music video we've been working on for New Zealand band Pluto. It was done on a fairly small budget and the 3 of us completed it in about 3 weeks. Apart from the initial character designs and the bg's, it was made entirely in Flash. Making this vid allowed us to experiment a little with flash so next time around we'll hopefully come up with something even better. Right click here and "save as" to check it out. (It's around 6.9MB)

The band are extremely happy with the final vid, so that's cool. They liked the vid so much that we actually got commissioned to create a 1 minute animated skit, featuring the characters, so we'll post that for you to see as well. Check that out here at mukpuddy.com

Look forward to hearing what you guys think!!

Cheers

The Muks

Wrestling is real dammit!!

We've watched this like 100 times in the last hour and now that we've stopped crying with laughter, we thought we'd share it with those of you who may not have seen it. Ahhh, wrestling fans aye..........sometimes this world worries us.

Check it out (right click and "save as")

Update-a-roony

Hey Folks,

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Hope you all had a good one.

Well, we got a great reception from all the people who saw our Xmas idents, so we've been commisioned to do 10 more 15sec idents featuring each of the presenters on C4 (NZ Music channel). So that's pretty cool. We'll hopefully post them as we go. So stay tuned.

Our new years resolution is to actually complete our very own kickass animated short film that will go on to win an oscar and win much critical acclaim! However It's a good chance that only part of that will actually come true, but you cant win 'em all.

Anyway, we'll keep you posted on our progress, so hopefully that keeps the pressure on us to keep working on it. Guess I better start writing a script then!!!

Seeya, Ryan

Gobowise

Hey folks.

Alex just got the complete series 1 Fraggle Rock box set........and we just wanted to leave this with you...



Seperated at birth?

Sk8 or Die!!!

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Hello all, Alex here, just thought I'd post up some stuff I've been working on in my spare time over the last few months. These are, hopefully, gonna be in an exhibition me and my girlfriend are setting up for sometime next year so stayed tuned, but feel free to get in touch with me if you would like to buy one of my works!!! :)

Santa Pants

Hi,

Got bored, so i made this in a fury of Chrismas spirit.

http://mukpuddy.truman.hosting.co.nz//tim/animation/santarun.swf

Enjoy

Tim

Cold Hard Mukpuddy!

We got mentioned at Cold Hard Flash. Cheers Aaron, that's awesome!! Go check out the article, which mainly focuses on the Xmas idents we did for NZ's C4 music television.

We are happy boys..... so happy in fact that we all went out and grew matching facial hair, which we call "The Aint-it-cool". (As you can see, Alex is the more free spirited one of the group. Bloody hippy!)

C4 Idents complete

Hey pimples, Tim here.
We've finally completed the C4 idents and chucked them up on the site. So head on over to the cartoon section of Mukpuddy to check them out. There's also a few other bits and pieces there too.

Some sketches....

Hey there, just thought I'd post up some sketches I did for the "Xmas Idents" we're just finishing off for C4 (a local music channel here in NZ)!!

-Xander13

Le Papillion

Our friend Gerrard just sent us a link to an animated short called Le Papillon (which, I think, means 'The Butterfly'), and we just had to share it!!

It's too cool for words.

I wish a major studio would have enough balls to greenlight a movie in this sort of style. But then again..would the people go. Me thinks it might just be us in the audience. Damn the mainstream.

Check it out http://www.aantin.com/films/lepapillon.php

X3

Hey folks,

Ryan here.

Just checked out the teaser trailer for X Men 3. I wasn't going to say anything about it until I saw a whole bunch of people bitching about it in talkbacks. I loved it....man, there's no pleasing some people. It always surprises me when something so obviously cool looking is so widely panned by internet folk.

It's so weird how people can't seem to understand that an animated or illustrated character is never going to translate 100% into a live action film. I know that there's alot of die hard comic book fans out there who want to see the Beast and the Juggernaut they know an love come to life, but it just aint happening. Some things just dont translate well. For the X Men films in particular, they've always tried to keep the series as much in the real world as possible,and I think the new characters fit in nicely. Stop moaning, hold all judgement till the film comes out, then if it truely does suck ass, then I'll join you in bagging it. So far.....looks cool!

Check out the trailer here
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/

New Stuff

Yo, Alex here, though I'd make my first post with some images of what we've been up to lately. As Tim posted eariler we did some titles for a music channel here in NZ called C4. The name of the show is "6 Degrees of Seperation" so our idea was to do sort of an evolution of music!
We also just recently finished a skitfor a local band called Pluto that, we hope will air soon on the same channel, but heres a screen shot!!!

Chur
Xander13