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Global Mechanic Christmas Party 2009

HO HO HO!
(or if you’re reading this upside down, ¡OH OH OH),

Hurray for Christmas! We recently had our annual Global Mechanic Christmas Party. Man was that a good time! The food was fantastic, boozie-drinks were flowing like proverbial water and the company was second to none. A million thanks go to Betty for making this year’s party a huge success (as she always does) and to Joe for setting up a lovely little animated idea in the corner of the party which we’ve cut together into a time-lapse video for alluv-y’all to see. Have a gander:

Also, take a look at the Christmas tree that Betty made. She does a different theme every year. This year, the theme was mustaches. She hand made each mustache with corduroy, fur, cardboard and stuffing (click on an image to enlarge it):

Just a heads up: Global Mechanic takes [...]

December 15th, 2009 | Category: news, photography, video | Leave a comment

SKETCHES PART: 002

Welcome to the second installment of SKETCHES.

Today we will be showcasing work from Bruce Alcock, Nathaniel Akin, Michael Mann, Francois-Marc Baillet and Justin Longoz (yours truly). We have a nice wide range of images for you. There were interesting moments in the boardroom, some funny comic moments and a bunch of fantastic sketches. Hope you enjoy them!

We’ve decided to make the SKETCHES  posts a weekly occurrence. Check bak every week for brand spanking new sketches and, of course, new video content and updates on everything else Global Mechanic.

-justin

December 10th, 2009 | Category: ideas, illustration, sketchbook | Leave a comment

The Human Veggie Experience

Can’t stop (don’t stop) won’t stop the beat,

You can expect that, amidst all of the Vive La Rose hoopla, we will be bringing you a constant stream of content. Today we have another short for you. Here is a little somethin’-somethin’ that I made with some friends a while back in a studio that I built in my parent’s garage in high school. It’s a pretty stripped down simple concept. I’m hungry so I dance around a bit, command some fruit to join me at the table and then I terrify the fruit by cutting open and eating an apple. The film was all done with real human stop-motion. None of that cheating-jump-frame-preset monkey business. This is the real deal people! We shot it in an afternoon. Really goes to show how much you can get done in a day. The music with the short is taken from J Dilla’s [...]

December 8th, 2009 | Category: ideas, video | Leave a comment

Vive La Rose makes TIFF Top 10 films of 2009

Swish!

(or maybe it’s more like “koosh”?)

Huzzah! and other terms of excitement! TIFF has just announced it’s top 10 films of the year. It appears as though Vive La Rose has made the list. What a day for Bruce and Vive La Rose!  This is a huge honor. Congratulations go to Bruce again. Good show old chap! You can view the full list of films HERE.

UPDATE: the press for Vive La Rose is starting to flood in. Too much for this blog to handle. To keep up with the press, please visit our TWITTER page.

December 8th, 2009 | Category: news | Leave a comment

Vive La Rose plays the Sundance Film Festival

Vive La Rose has been accepted into the Sundance film festival! So much for Slamdance (bung)! This will be Bruce Alcock’s second Sundance film. His first being the 2006 animated short “At the Quinte Hotel”. Check out an excerpt from Quinte below and also the making of the fishing scene from Vive La Rose (via NFB.ca):

(Vive La Rose – Making of: The Fishing Scene)

(At the Quinte Hotel – Excerpt)

December 7th, 2009 | Category: animation, news, video | Leave a comment
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