Stephen M. Levinson's Blog

Low Tide’s Mustache Contest. My favorite episode so far, but all the other are very funny too!
Mike Hollingsworth is an awesome animator and one funny dude! You may have seen his short The Abbreviation Bunny on episode 17 of channel frederator or his short Big Mama’s House 3 on episode 72 of Channel Frederator. Mike is most notable for his short Low Tide that is currently running on Fuel Tv.

Mike has created 2 other really short shorts called Radio Shack and Uncle Clyde. Here’s what Mike has to say about them.

“BOTH of those shorts are traditionally animated, but in two different ways. I did the H2F spot with the comic on stage traditionally, on paper, and then scanned in the sheets and inked them in flash. MEANWHILE, “Baby Bird visits Radio Shack” was animated entirely in Flash but I just took my time and did it right. I didn’t just rely on the stiff turn-around body symbols I created. I roughed the animation out on a layer and then traced over it with the pencil tool. Or I probably used the line tool. I like to pull a line across what I’m tracing and then drag selection boxes over the line to create new edit points. Then you can bend it around but it still stays pretty smooth.”

There you have it. Check out Low Tide, it’s the sh!t!

Best,
SL