Yo Mukka Mukka

On our recent trip to The States we met Justin and Lance from the rediculously awesome show Yo Gabba Gabba, and long story short, it inspired us to put this pic together!

More importantly...

I have a new blog, where I will be putting up all the little sketches that I do when I'm meant to be working.

So forget about the geek freeks one, and go here instead

-Tim

Geek Freeks Blog!!

That's right, we've now got a blog for our plush toys, so go check it out!!



-Alex

More paintings...

Hello Alex here again, me and my wife sell our toys at a craftfair every couple of months and this time I decided to do some small paintings and see if they'd sell, I thought it was a good idea, but no one brought any so, I guess, that's egg on my face. Oh well maybe next time!

Sum paintings I dun...

Yay, it's our first proper post since getting back from our trip to the states!! Funnily enough it was something I wanted to post before the trip but ran out of time... anyways, about a week before we left me and my wife had an exhibition at our buddies gallery, to help raise some funds for our trip! It was only my second time exhibiting work in a gallery so I was pretty nervous but it all went really well and we sold a bunch of stuff on opening night so we were really happy with that!!

My theme was one I've wanted to paint for a while and that is, my cat , he's actually my wifes but he's adopted me as his dad! (see below) ...

basically he's really cool and my ideas came from when he's in a deep sleep he'll have these dreams where he twitches and makes heaps of funny noises, so I've always wanted to know what he's dreaming about, so I decided to paint his dreams!!

And here's a peek at what the place looked like on opening night, in this shot I'm in the background getting interveiwed by a local music channel... weird!!

-Alex

The Muks in Vegas!!

Well the end of our crazy trip has arrived, but we spent the last few days in Vegas - as if the rest of the trip hadn't already made us exhausted. This town is MENTAL!!!

Leaving Burbank we weren't sure if we'd even be able to fit all the stuff we'd bought in the rental car...

Driving through the desert was one of the coolest things we did on the whole trip...

So to sum up, we had an amazing time, met up with heaps of awesome people and bought heaps of cool stuff!! If we met you on our travels, please stay in touch and if we didn't, we'll see ya next time!!

Other peeps we met in Burbank!!

Unfortunately, like idiots, we didn't get photos with everyone we met but here's some we did get...

At Disney we bumped into the awesome Alan Bodner

We got a tour of Cartoon Network and the Fosters department by Senor Chips himself

We also managed to meet the very handsome Edgar Wright and got our copies of Hot Fuzz signed by him

One of the coolest things to happen on our trip and possibly our lives was meeting the great Eric Goldberg!! He's been described by some people as "the greatest living animator" so it was fairly nerve-racking for us, but he was truely awesome and very humble!! We were introduced to him by our good friends Jen and Bert Klein - we were invited to their place for a bbq and they told us there would be a special guest and, you guessed it, it was Eric. He, of course, animated one of the greatest characters of all time... the Genie in Aladdin!! He also animated Phil in Hercules, so yeah, basically he RULES!!

We spent hours picking he brain and listening to his stories about Disney and his amazing career, it was very cool! At the end of he night he made us the happiest kids in the world and drew a picture for us...

We have smiles a mile wide forever now!!!

Adventures in Burbank

We just spent the last 8 days in Burbank, seeing the sights, shopping and most importantly pitching to the studios and meeting heaps of awesome artists!! So here are some pics of the highlights...

The drive from Anaheim wasn't too tough... except on Ryan!

Here's where we stayed - it's where the movie True Romance was filmed!!

Just before we arrived the 7 Eleven right beside us was set up as a Kwik-E-Mart as a promotional thingy for The Simpsons movie, complete with signage and products like Squishies, Buzz Cola and Krusty-Os!!

Some of the other stuff we got up to in Hollywood...

The studios we visited...

On Friday night we got invited to the "Nicktoons Network Animation Festival Awards" at the Nickelodeon Studios. We got to meet heaps of cool peeps and it was a blast!!

We finally got to meet the infamous Stephen Levinson

Voice artist and character designer Eric Bauza

Dony Permedi creator of the hugely popular short "Kiwi"

Our new bff Martin Hsu and Andrew Feinstein

The king of Cold Hard Flash Aaron Simpson and Melissa Wolfe

We put Floyd Bishop to sleep

Eric Homan

After all that smoozing we went out for some booze and dessert with our buddy Steve Lambe and his wife Sue... it was awesome!!!

Back with more very soon!!