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Tony White has posted a version of his short film “Endangered Species” for viewing on YouTube.  It’s a mockumentary of the rise and fall of traditional animation.  The animation in the piece is well executed.  The pace is good and the content of the story is interesting and compelling.  The most creative part of the film is how Tony mimics snippets of well-known animations using Tony’s well-known animation character in a delightfully playful way. 

Toon Zone posted a really comprehensive interview with Tony in 2006 about the “Endangered Species” animation and its inspiration.   

In the interview, Tony mentions his ill-fated ”Animation Masterclass” book.  This was the book that Tony consulted with Matt Tamaru (Rodriguez at the time) on Flash character animation.  Unfortunately, ”Animation Masterclass” never did see the light of day. 

Here’s the film.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Plexipixel is represented at CES for the second year in a row (last year we did a video to announce Real’s partnership with Tivo).  This year, we created a video using Lenny Kravitz’ new single “Bring It On” to show off the new portable GoGear and Philips’ Streamium home products that are Real/MTV Rhapsody enabled.  The video was shown at the Philips press event on Saturday (1/6/2008).  It’ll also be shown at Real’s booth during the show.

Check out the press on Engadget on both the announcement and the video:

1:16PM PT - Andrea is now talking about the company’s partnership with Rhapsody, and online music sales. Matt Rowlen from Rhapsody has taken the stage now. He’s touting the company’s wide coverage. Now they’re rolling a clip made with Lenny Kravitz. It’s pretty funky, also, someone is playing the electric guitar.

1:19PM PT - Rhapsody is now (or will be soon) available for Philips devices. Mind blowing. Now Andrea is back on talking about lifestyle and design.

(source Engadget–2008/01/06/, Live Coverage From the Philips Press Event)

There was a post on Boing Boing today about Bob Staake’s very unusual illustration process.  He uses a mouse and a copy of Photoshop to create super cute cut-out-style “vector”-based (they’re actually rastor) children’s book illustrations.  What crazy is his process–he takes the idea of cut-out in a very literal way.  Check it out!

An article praising Jim’s amazing painting skills on BoingBoing. 

Check out these funny photos from last year’s Halloween.  Jim makes a fine stake-tartar:

Shawn Wolfe (Ghillie #1) and Matt Tamaru (Ghillie #2)

Mary Woodring, Tom Dougherty and Dubble-ya?

These photos are to help you get ready for the Cafe Racer art and costume extravaganza this weekend!!!  See you there.

Our own Matt Tamaru was featured on Cold Hard Flash today for his animation of the opening sequence for The New Ballard & Ballard Cartoon Hour. It’s great to know that this project, part of a collection of collaborative installations exhibited in 2005, is still getting attention!

Shawn Wolfe on Crown Dozen where he speaks about Negativeland, Devo and lap-dances.

I found this interesting article on the BBC today. Over 100,000 new blogs are created daily around the world.