Fun Runs and Robots

After Three and a half months I finally have a new animation in progress! The voice acting is complete and I'm currently designing the characters and artwork for it. Eric Gusky, who did the narration for Tarboy recorded the audio for me and it sounds amazing! I've also been given permission to use some very, very cool music as the soundtrack but I'm going to keep that a secret for now.

Besides the animation I'm working on 4 new sketches to be sent off for various writing opportunities that I've heard about. These kind of things are always a long shot but I will keep you informed about how they pan out.

One last thing. I am running a 5 mile fun run in a couple of weeks and I'd like to raise some money for the British Heart Foundation. If you fancy sponsoring me you can do so here. I've never run further than 3 miles before so It's kind of daunting but I'm super confident I'll get round in less than a day.

If you haven't seen Tarboy then check it out. It's great! It's got robots, fighting and evil villains! I wish i could animate like this!

A Short Walk

I haven't done much animation lately so I thought I'd try and get back into it by doing a short exercise. It's nice to be able to just focus on the animation and not have to worry about characters, plots or trying to make it funny.

A Short Walk


I haven't got any new projects on the horizon at the moment. I'm fighting off various annoying illnesses and I'm also moving house in a couple of weeks. Hopefully in September when everything's sorted I'll find some inspiration from somewhere because at the moment I have no idea what I want to do next.

Auto-Tune the News

These auto-tune the news videos are great but this is easily the funniest one.

More topical tomfoolery

It's time for a sad face. I'm now 0/3 with getting my sketches used on Newsjack. Although I did receive a nice email telling me they liked one of my sketches. They obviously didn't like it that much though did they?!

Here's a couple more topical sketches I've written for TheSpoof.com.

Michael Jackson had been dead for 2 years

Obama tells Putin to Chillax

I'm slightly uncomfortable with the Michael Jackson sketch. I hope it's not too disrespectful to the man. I thought I would try and write the idea up as you can't be a topical comedy writer and ignore the biggest stories of the day.

I've been watching the Daily Show to see how they handled the story. I tried to make the target of my sketch the freeloaders that were around him, rather than the man. It's a silly sketch and I think I lost my way a bit so it may (or may not) come across like that, I hope it does.

Newsjack and TheSpoof.com

No news is good news right? Well no, not always. Sometimes no news just means that the news is really bad and nobody wants to tell you. Fortunately my lack of updates is just down to the simple reason that there's been no news.

The topical comedy news show Newsjack has started on BBC Radio 7 and it's really rather good. I submitted two sketches last week but neither were used, oh well, I'll keep trying. Because you can't re-use a topical sketch I've decided that whenever I write one I'll also try to write a version of it in a newspaper format. That way I can post it on this website I found called TheSpoof.com. It's sort of the British version of the Onion except with contributions from the public.

So here's a couple of Spoof news articles I've written.

Princes William and Harry to get BBC3 sketch show

Ahmadinejad wins Iran's tallest man competition

I'm working away on a small animation for someone but other than that no new animation projects on the horizon. When I've moved house in a few weeks I'll hopefully get back on to that.