
Hey everybody,
Over the last 12 years, the good people at the Animation Show of Shows have be diligently showcasing their favorite animated films. To date they’ve put out 36 DVD Volumes spanning 6 individual Box Sets!
At the Quinte Hotel is featured in Box Set 5 (Volumes 25-30), and Vive La Rose in Box Set 6 (Volumes 31-36).
Well… now you can grab all Volumes containing 108 films in total, compiled into one massive Box Set!
Do yourself a solid and check it out here!

The new video for Coco Electrik is out now and it’s a-blazing.
‘Fire and Ice’ does exactly what it says on the tin – it is a visual cornucopia,
a distorted pursuit of desires. Set on a psychedelic sci-fi terrain it takes you
on a kaleidoscopic journey through mysticism, religion, geometry, pop-culture
and pure, unadulterated lust.
Coco Electrik hail from the cold streets of London and have contributed
songs to Cohen Brothers’ feature ‘Burn After Reading’ and hit Australian
drama ‘Underbelly’.
Their new album ‘White Ink’ is out July 2010.

Click here to watch on globalmechanic.com
Credits:
© Oscillation Records & tearapart.tv 2010
Directed & designed by George Tsioutsias
Co-directed & VFX by Achilleas Gatsopoulos
DoP: Martha Pavlidou
Key grip: Gower Ramsey
Hair: John Mullan for Stone Hair
Make-Up: Lan Nguyen
Stylist: Siouxsie
Published by: Touch Tones Music
Imagine a fat talking orange dog living in an infinitely expanding doghouse with a mute cat and a faceless mouse.
Ridiculous right?….. Wrong!
For the past 5 years our series dept has animated 100 fun-filled and zany episodes for the beloved show Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman! Ruff started out a lone inmate, but over a span of five seasons found himself surrounded by a plethora of family members and various animal guests…. including a herd of sheep!
15+ board, design and animation artists completed the task. We added much creative input to the show that took Ruff from his doghouse to new boundaries. Fetch showed us that anything and everything can happen within a single episode.
In total, 1.25 million frames were animated in Flash.
That’s a total of 11.5 hours or roughly 6 animated features!
Check out Ruff’s family tree below, and follow his television antics on PBS.

We’re super excited to bring the news of the addition of Greek-born Londoner George Tsioutsias to our ever expanding group of Directors.
George’s career took off at the tender age of 9, when he received a pan-European award in painting. He has been a force to be reckoned with ever since. After receiving a first in communication design from the Chelsea College of Arts & Design, he spent years designing and art directing for music and fashion. Ultimately his diverse creative interests converged on the medium of moving image, and flew him right across the Atlantic where he landed a position at Interspectacular New York. Upon returning to London he set up tearapart.tv with fellow artist Theo Michael. George’s multidisciplinary background allows him to work across a wide range of formats including commercials, music videos, virals, title sequences and branded content.
Check out his some of his work here. and the official press release here!

The boys in 1998creative have been working on a few things for this year’s Music Waste. You already saw the animation, now check out these flyers that they whipped up. They modeled the 2 designs after their favorite thing in the world: cheap beer (Pilsner and Pabst Blue Ribbon cans to be exact). The festival runs from June 2nd-5th of this year and happens at venues all over the city. Check the Music Waste website for more info.
Today we’re going to show you a little something that Global Mechanic’s own 1998creative came up with for this year’s Music Waste. Some of you might be wondering what Music Waste is. Well, it’s a music art and comedy festival held at various venues all over Vancouver. It goes from June 2nd to June 5th 2010. For more info on venues and artists please visit the music waste website here.
The animation will be up on the music waste website and should be playing here and there on a loop during the festival. It was meant as a sort of fun little art project that could be projected at any venue. As you can see, the animation takes you on a trip through the history of music players from the gramophone all the way up to the mp3 player.
1998creative has been working on a few other design elements for this year’s Music Waste. Stick around to see what else we’ve come up with.
-Justin

Chris and Justin were recently interview on the Sad Magazine website by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Slaven. Go check out the interview. It’s gots lots ofs links!