Recently, Chris Mckinlay (the other half of 1998) moved into a soon-to-be-destroyed house on Knight Street. He and his roommate James have fixed the place up quite nicely since they moved in, but you should have seen the place when they first got it. This should give you some perspective: I believe the only rule that his landlord gave them was, “No growing or selling drugs. Other than that, I don’t care what you do”. So Chris took that very seriously and we went to town thinking of some fun things we could do in his house. The first idea we had was to paint all over the walls. We thought it’d be fun to do a big mural in his kitchen. So I designed a mural idea (giant blades of grass and their root systems) and Chris and I just kind of went for it. I drew on the [...]
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We seriously struggled with whether or not to post these photos on our blog. Will people think we’re idiots? Yes, probably. Do we care what people think? No, we obviously don’t care what people think. Otherwise we’d probably be more careful about this kind of stuff. But at the end of the day, these nonsensical fridge magnet phrases crack us up. ESPECIALLY the goon poem bat shit one. I have no idea why. It’s just a great set of words lined up one after the other. So please, join us in our stupidity as we take a trip down da da lane. WARNING: SOME WORDS NOT SAFE FOR WORK, ENLARGE PICTURES AT YOUR OWN RISK: Note – These were the best of the best of the last 6 months. I know. It’s that bad over here. We make more of these every day [...] Today we’ have the third short in The Ten Commandments series, number 7: Thou Shalt Not Steal. This one was a bit of a challenge. Banana’s aren’t exactly easy to animate. They don’t stand up. Who knew? But the sets were a lot of fun to make and we had a great time shooting this one. We hope you enjoy it: More commandments shorts are in the works. We’re 3 down with 7 more to go! -Justin How dee, So there you have the basic layout of the set and some of the art room. The two are [...] Today we have the second short in a series of films we’re calling The Ten Commandments. This short illustrates commandment number 3: Keep Holy the Sabbath Day. We’ve managed to cram in a little bit of a topical theme this time. Can you figure out what it is? Duuuuh… Hope you enjoy it: Keep Holy the Sabbath Day was made by 1998 creative and was produced in studio by Global Mechanic. 1998 creative is: Chris Mckinlay, Justin Longoz and Patrick Beechinor. Stick around, we have more commandment videos on the way. -Justin I bring you the first short in a series of films simply titled The Ten Commandments. Today, we have commandment number 5: Thou Shalt Not Kill. The idea for these films is fairly straight forward. Fruits and vegetables come together to tell the story of the 10 commandments as are found in the King James version of the Bible. With this film specifically, we really just wanted to work with potatoes, tomatoes and mini mallets. “Yeah but why start with 5?” you may be asking yourself. Well, I have no idea why. We just did. This commandment seemed to be a logical beginning to the series for some reason, so we just sort of went with it. If this is any indication of the order that these films will be released, then… there is no order! Hurray! Hope you enjoy it: Thou Shalt Not Kill was made over the 2009-2010 Christmas [...] HO HO HO! 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 [...] 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 Hello again friends, I’m pretty sure [...] |
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