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
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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 [...] 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 [...] |
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