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Dirk Banzai from Mukpuddy on Vimeo.

The new adventure of Mukpuddy’s first character - Dirk Banzai!

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Hats off to our pals in New Zealand, Mukpuddy Animation, for a job well-done. They’ve just blogged a four-and-a-half minute pilot for Nick International based on their very first character, Dirk Banzai (created back when Dame Jenny Shipley was Prime Minister!). Watch it above, then go to the MukBlog to let them how much you enjoyed it.

– Eric

Images from Jean-Christophe Lie’s “L’Homme a la Gordini”

I’m back from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Hats off to Chris Robinson, Kelly Neall, and the team behind the screens for organizing another fine festival. Also, thanks to Dave Levy who invited me to sit on a development panel along with Linda Simensky, Fran Krause, and Heather Kenyon. It went well, and I used two different dating analogies in answering questions.

It was a strong crop of shorts this year, I think. However, even though I took advantage of the screenings-on-demand, I still fell short of seeing all the animation I would’ve liked to have seen. Favorite films? Again, I didn’t see nearly everything (I missed the Student Screening, for example), but I’d give the blue ribbon to “L’Homme a la Gordini”, the first short film by Jean-Christophe Lie, and a cartoon I wished would’ve gone on longer. I also enjoyed pretty well Adam [Read more…]

To promote tomorrow’s release of the Wubb Idol DVD, Wubbzy rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The Dow is up 10.96 to 9875.90 as of 2:20 p.m. ET. Pork bellies are down, doodleberry pies are up in late trading.

– Eric