GLOBAL MECHANIC BLOG » global mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:47:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PSA for MADD Canada: The Sticker Family http://blog.globalmechanic.com/sticker-family/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/sticker-family/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:25:43 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=1913

Check out the new PSA spot Global Mechanic created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Chez, GM’s director for this project, beautifully walked the line between cartoon and live action worlds to deliver a hard-hitting message about the sad realities of drunk driving.

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Check out the new PSA spot Global Mechanic created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Chez, GM’s director for this project, beautifully walked the line between cartoon and live action worlds to deliver a hard-hitting message about the sad realities of drunk driving.

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Preliminary character sketches for our upcoming film Impromptu, based on the paintings of Matisse. Check back as we update our progress.

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Preliminary character sketches for our upcoming film Impromptu, based on the paintings of Matisse. Check back as we update our progress.

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/impromptu-ideas/feed/ 0 SIR BIT – A New ASCII Game for iPhone http://blog.globalmechanic.com/sir-bit-ascii-game-iphone/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/sir-bit-ascii-game-iphone/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:02:18 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=1799 Global Mechanic Media proudly enters the iPhone Application market with our free ASCII Quest Game SIR BIT. Journey through worlds of captivating old-school gameplay to fight the evil wizard Nul, and save the princesses! Simple functions and easy controls make this game of strategy and logic quick to learn and wickedly addictive.

Get it HERE in the app store.

Visit the SIR BIT website

And see the TRAILER

]]> Global Mechanic Media proudly enters the iPhone Application market with our free ASCII Quest Game SIR BIT. Journey through worlds of captivating old-school gameplay to fight the evil wizard Nul, and save the princesses! Simple functions and easy controls make this game of strategy and logic quick to learn and wickedly addictive.

Get it HERE in the app store.

Visit the SIR BIT website

And see the TRAILER

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/sir-bit-ascii-game-iphone/feed/ 1 Global Mechanic creates animation for WGBH / PBS all in an effort to teach kids about sustainability. http://blog.globalmechanic.com/global-mechanic-creates-animation-for-wgbh-pbs-all-in-an-effort-to-teach-kids-about-sustainability/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/global-mechanic-creates-animation-for-wgbh-pbs-all-in-an-effort-to-teach-kids-about-sustainability/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:40:55 +0000 Matthew http://blog.globalmechanic.com/uncategorized/global-mechanic-creates-animation-for-wgbh-pbs-all-in-an-effort-to-teach-kids-about-sustainability/ The “Loop Scoop” animation that Global Mechanic has been working on for some time with WGBH is getting a lot of ink. Mentions in:

USA Today Huffington Post Mother Nature Network Environmental Magazine Earth 911 GreenXPert Twitter ]]> The “Loop Scoop” animation that Global Mechanic has been working on for some time with WGBH is getting a lot of ink. Mentions in:

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/global-mechanic-creates-animation-for-wgbh-pbs-all-in-an-effort-to-teach-kids-about-sustainability/feed/ 0 PAINT IT GRASS http://blog.globalmechanic.com/paint-it-grass/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/paint-it-grass/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:03 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=999 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 [...]]]> 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 wall in pencil and then we painted it. We also thought it’d be fun if we did a time-lapse of us making the mural. Over the course of 4 days we planned and executed the project for your viewing pleasure:

and once the mural was finished, we had a party:

Stick around to see what else we do to Chris’ house in the near future.

-Justin

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/paint-it-grass/feed/ 2 WE ARE MAGNET IDIOTS: PART 001 http://blog.globalmechanic.com/we-are-magnet-idiots-part-001/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/we-are-magnet-idiots-part-001/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:49:33 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=908 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 [...]]]> 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 so I’ll sort through the entirely inappropriate ones and should have another batch for your viewing pleasure up shortly. Trust me, there will be a great deal of sorting on my part. Ta for now!

-Justin

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/we-are-magnet-idiots-part-001/feed/ 1 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: No. 7 – THOU SHALT NOT STEAL http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-7-thou-shalt-not-steal/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-7-thou-shalt-not-steal/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:57:09 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=894 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

]]> 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

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-7-thou-shalt-not-steal/feed/ 1 KEEPING IT HOLY: BEHIND THE SCENES http://blog.globalmechanic.com/keeping-it-holy-behind-the-scenes-2/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/keeping-it-holy-behind-the-scenes-2/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:26:08 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=734 How dee, Today we’re going to be showing you some production stills from the last 10 commandments short. It was a hairy shoot. We thought we would try and get the video out before the super bowl (because of the football theme) so we only had a week to finalize the idea, make props, test shoot, shoot and then do the editing and foley. It was a challenge to say the least, but we got it done and we’re proud of what came out the other side. Take a look at some of our photos (the quality isn’t exactly fantastic. We were using the nice camera to make the film so i just used my iphone for these stills):

So there you have the basic layout of the set and some of the art room. The two are [...]]]> How dee,
Today we’re going to be showing you some production stills from the last 10 commandments short. It was a hairy shoot. We thought we would try and get the video out before the super bowl (because of the football theme) so we only had a week to finalize the idea, make props, test shoot, shoot and then do the editing and foley. It was a challenge to say the least, but we got it done and we’re proud of what came out the other side. Take a look at some of our photos (the quality isn’t exactly fantastic. We were using the nice camera to make the film so i just used my iphone for these stills):

So there you have the basic layout of the set and some of the art room. The two are very close together in the studio which is great because you can come up with an idea for a prop/set dec, walk 20 feet, make it and then have it back in the set pretty quickly. I thought it might also be fun to show you guys some close ups of the details in the short (like the photos and the beer can design). Take a look:

Okay, that’s all for now. Check back soon and we’ll have another 10 commandments short with some more production stills and maybe some more design images as well.

-Justin

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/keeping-it-holy-behind-the-scenes-2/feed/ 0 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: No. 3 – KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH DAY http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-3-keep-holy-the-sabbath-day/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-3-keep-holy-the-sabbath-day/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:15:26 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=680 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

]]> 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

]]> http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-no-3-keep-holy-the-sabbath-day/feed/ 2 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SERIES http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-series/ http://blog.globalmechanic.com/the-ten-commandments-series/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:48:48 +0000 Global Mechanic http://blog.globalmechanic.com/?p=561 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 [...]]]> 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 holiday break by 1998 and was produced in studio by Global Mechanic. 1998 is: Chris Mckinlay, Justin Longoz and Patrick Beechinor. Music composed by Richard Pinto and Patrick Beechinor.

-Justin

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