HOLA MUCACHOS!

All right! No more annoying links. Nothing but hot embedded action!

So here are the first couple of animation tests for my thesis film, tentatively titled "The Batcat Project."

Batcat, the erstwhile deposed despot of an indeterminate third world island nation has fled to the United States to avoid prosecution by the U.N. for crimes against humanity. While he waits for theheat to blow over, he cools his heels at the Windy Meadows Maximum Security Animal Shelter, mixing with the other...unique...inhabitants, and doing whatever it takes to avoid death by boredom.

In the first sequence, Batcat harnesses the power of a new skill he's been working on. Some people work out in prison. Some fnd religion. Here, Batcat mixes the physical and the mystical as he discovers he had the ability to move - and destroy - objects with his mind. Unfortunately, his new power only works on objects produced by Oscar Mayer. The exploding weiner will be added in during post-production.

The second sequence is very much still in progress. Eventually, Batcat will smack his ping-pong ball right into the bulls-eye of the target on a dunking-booth/time machine, returning the miniature insurance-selling tyrannosaurus sitting atop the contraption to its proper time.

That may very well be the best sentence I've ever written.

Anyway, I'd love to hear what you think! Enjoy!

Sweet!

That last post is a video my friend Dominic and I made. He used to sculpt cakes. I think this was about as good as anyone could do with a bunch of Kroger cake icing, a toothpick, and half an hour. But this means I can post up videos here directly. How sweet it is. Back in a jif.

actually....

I'm gonna try out this savvy new little trick I just happened upon and see how it works out.

I must run more tests before I can be sure!

I've posted some more footage of everyone's favorite bored and ruthless winged feline over on my site. You can check out the new clips at

www.akablack.com/temp.html

I'd love to hear what you think so far!