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

© 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

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.

As you can see, the paintings are almost done now. They’re brightening up the studio downstairs. It’s really quite beautiful to see them all lined up whith the sunlight passing through the bamboo blinds. The paintings are beginning to feel more like a cohesive set with a common language of blobs, sepia washes, dense line-work and a tendency toward flatness in lieu of modeling and light-rendering. The next time we update on the Vive La Rose paintings, you’ll be seeing the finished product!

Don’t forget that the finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound [...]]]>

As you can see, the paintings are almost done now. They’re brightening up the studio downstairs. It’s really quite beautiful to see them all lined up whith the sunlight passing through the bamboo blinds. The paintings are beginning to feel more like a cohesive set with a common language of blobs, sepia washes, dense line-work and a tendency toward flatness in lieu of modeling and light-rendering. The next time we update on the Vive La Rose paintings, you’ll be seeing the finished product!

Don’t forget that the finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.

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.

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 [...]]]>

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

It appears as though Bruce is starting to finish some of these paintings. Check out the figure-drawing on the two fish pictures. Beautiful. And what about those water pictures? They’re looking mighty wet!  We can see that Bruce has added quite a bit of turpentine to the potatoes to try and get that watercolor effect in the boiling potatoes painting. To get the effect of the steam, he’s used a drybrush with white paint. He’s also added sepia washes to the paintings of the woman to tone down the candy pink backgrounds. Next Bruce plans on adding some punch to the cod jigger and finishing the figures in the piano scene.

The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in [...]]]>

It appears as though Bruce is starting to finish some of these paintings. Check out the figure-drawing on the two fish pictures. Beautiful. And what about those water pictures? They’re looking mighty wet!  We can see that Bruce has added quite a bit of turpentine to the potatoes to try and get that watercolor effect in the boiling potatoes painting. To get the effect of the steam, he’s used a drybrush with white paint. He’s also added sepia washes to the paintings of the woman to tone down the candy pink backgrounds. Next Bruce plans on adding some punch to the cod jigger and finishing the figures in the piano scene.

The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.

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!

It looks like Bruce is close to finishing some of these paintings. He’s switching it up as he goes, adding cold wax medium to a few of the paintings of the woman (steam moving over the extreme close-up of her eyes and nose bridge, for her whole body to differentiate it from the other figures in the piano scene and in her hair for the face close-up). He then dragged water-diluted india ink over the wax for a nice resist look. It appears as though the fish are getting fishier now, with indigo oil-bar line work watered with turpentine, plus a little ochre. You can see in the photos that the Vancouver Spring is shining through the windows giving the studio area around Bruce’s painting project a comfortable glow.

The finished paintings will be showing (along with [...]]]>

It looks like Bruce is close to finishing some of these paintings. He’s switching it up as he goes, adding cold wax medium to a few of the paintings of the woman (steam moving over the extreme close-up of her eyes and nose bridge, for her whole body to differentiate it from the other figures in the piano scene and in her hair for the face close-up). He then dragged water-diluted india ink over the wax for a nice resist look. It appears as though the fish are getting fishier now, with indigo oil-bar line work watered with turpentine, plus a little ochre. You can see in the photos that the Vancouver Spring is shining through the windows giving the studio area around Bruce’s painting project a comfortable glow.

The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.