Hurray! Jimmy the Idiot Boy Doll

Hurray! 10 years after they first came out, i finaly got hold of a Spumco "Jimmy the Idiot boy" talking doll. Still boxed, string talker still working! It's also alot larger than i thought it would be.

And i gota say, it's hideous!! It reminds me of chucky! :(

Wonder if they made a "Sody" doll as well?

Lynne Naylor drawing

Check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20135&item=7333010664&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

If it wasnt for the fact that the price will rocket!! grrrr!!!

The Jackson 500

I love waking up to post of the Parcel kind (thanks Anna). Today’s parcel contained the new book by the fantastic retro artist Tim Biskup.

Biskup (as I may of mentioned before) has the combined talents of Mary Blair and Jim Flora and wields his skills with seeming incredible ease. He is regarded as a genius amongst the animation crowd and a god amongst the designer vinyl scene.

The Jackson 500 Volume 1 is a collection of business card sized paintings with a extreme surreal feel.

Check out his site at:

http://www.timbiskup.com

CartoonRetro is 1 Year old!

Happy birthday cartoon retro!

I visit the site aleast once a day! It's a fantastic collection of retro artists. So if your not a member already, stop by and join up! you dont know what your missing!

http://www.cartoonretro.com/

Howl's Moving Papercraft Castle!

I had so much fun making the papercraft models from Viewtiful joe on the studio clover website, that i went searching for more and came across this:

http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/ec/event/howl-circus/

It's a offical papercraft model from "Howl's moving castle". Acording to the website it's a level one model, so it's very hard to make (plus the instructions are in japanese.)

Check it out if you have the time (and the printer ink)

Glamfest: After thoughts

The day overall was interesting, but that pretty much all I have to say about it. I can't say it was as good as last years show. The cinema was way too hot to be stuck inside all day.

I did learn a couple of things:

1. Remaking the Borjk/Chris Cunningham video "all is full of love" with a naked lady in a rubber mask is a stupid idea!

2. Slapping marmite on the chest of a toddler in the bath, to make a point about oil spillage is funny no matter how serious the film maker wants you to take it!

The Marc Craste talk was very cool, though he didn’t stick around long. I didn’t stick around to see the industry talk (probably the same old talk anyway). I also didn’t go to the after show party. For some reason we were given blue badges and the idea of paying for the privilege of hanging around with students makes me laugh.

Went to go see batman instead, which by the way, totally rocks!! :)

Glamfest 2005

Me and dan will be at Glamfest 2005 (the Glamorgan animation end of year promotion) in Cardiff at the UGC on Friday. Last years was quite good and had some interesting guest speakers. Looking forward to the talk by Marc Craste (Studio AKA).

Glamorgan’s ability for self-promotion never seizes to amaze me! It's almost creepy!

Awards

Big shout out to New Deal south Wales for naming Manticore films, best new Business.

More detail will be given on the new look Manticore Films website which will be up soon!

Anne Bancroft 1932-2005

Actress Anne Bancroft passed away yesterday after losing her fight against cancer. I’ve always been a little obsessed with the film "The Graduate" and hoped one day I could meet Mrs Bancroft.

My condolences go out to her family.

:(

Nicktoons

My freinds over at Nicktoons asked me to push this around!

http://www.nick.com/all_nick/nicktoons/site/filmfest/index.html

You havent got long left, but i'm sure if you send it NOW, it will get there in time!

Dave's blog spot

Heres a link to David Surman's blog.

It's pretty boring, but hey! he's a friend! :P

http://davidsurman.blogspot.com/

Big Sorry

Sorry about the lack of posts over the last week. It's been very busy at manticore. I'll try harder!

Sorry!

Illustrator CS2

I can’t believe that the "live trace" tools actually work!!

Everyone said it couldn’t be done, spending 2-3 hours tracing an image is just part of the process. But I’ve seen it!! It's amazing!

This is a animation revolution comrades!

(sorry about this computer techie rant!)