So, I figured it was time I revamped the website.... and here it is. Its a lot cleaner and simpler, less to worry about. Ive ported all the old diary entries onto this new Bloggystyle approach, what can possibly go wrong?

Video clips in the screening room, a bit of babble, screenshots in the DVD section and a blog. Sorted.

Hey... theyve got a lot to talk about...

So would you if youd just woken up in the afterlife facing a prawn headed harbinger of doom.

So... Death then. He hangs around in a heavenly limbo type space.

Marble columns, bright light, heavenly music... lovely...

oh, and those rows of dots between the columns...?

Bullets.

There are very few animations specifically geared for 'grown ups'. Something with enough cross the board appeal to anyone aged 14 to 35. South Park is the only animation that instantly springs to mind and Sick Puppy isn't that.

Sick Puppy is a cigar chompin', foul mouthed, bad attitude loner of a dog.



With a big gun.

Babes, bullets and bombs

…are essentially what Sick Puppy is about.Its not complicated.

He's a smart ass dog with a foul mouth, bad attitude and a big gun. Its yer basic big budget mindless Hollywood blockbuster, innit? One man (or dog) against the system.

Think Dirty Harry, Mad Max, Snake Plissken. Who? Kurt Russell in Escape from New York, that's who. And Escape from LA (but we don't talk about that) This isn't arthouse cinema - this is movement and white noise and 'splosions.

Got it - and i dont know know why, coz it makes no sense at all.

Death has a giant prawn for a head with flaming eyes.


Of course he does. You know it makes sense.

DEATH ARRIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So... DEATH, then. How should he look?

I was going to have the usual tall guy in a cloak, skeletal hands, skull and scythe. Ya know... traditional. But i tried it and it looked a bit... boring.

Hmmm, will have to think on it...

Theres a whole mid section and the end which occurs in Pavlovs Bar, so this could take awhile.

So that Ive got some more interesting images to post, Im gonna skip to a different section shortly then revisit the bar later in the schedule.

While its not the most efficient way of doing things - it stops me and you getting bored!

At least with the shark I can re-use the one from all my PUP FICTIONs. Just slot a different bar behind him and Bobs-yer-Unkle. Its all good.

Ive populated the bar with the usual suspects – a couple of martians, shark behind the bar (coz that’s what they do) another shark having a drink, a chicken and a bear.

Okay – finished the bar, its very modern and lit for daylight which I find the hardest thing to do.


Nighttime mood lighting, sunset lighting, spooky lighting – all straightforward, but normal daylight…..?



Admittedly it is very stylized daylight.

Think Mad Max or Dirty Harry for the most well known heroic loners. But specifically, I refer the right honourable gentleman to John Carpenters lo budget scifi classic Escape From New York.
Kurt Russel as Snake Plissken. A man who gargles sand for breakfast. The less old out there may automatically think of Carpenters not so classic Escape From LA. Which is crap obviously, but Kurt Russel still performs the job admirably.

Sick Puppy… vigilante, loner, fugitive from justice, framed for a crime HE DID NOT COMMIT. All these things you see in every action film ever made, and so much more.

From sci-fi actioner to moralistic western. From moody psycho thriller to insane splatter classic. From slapstick comedy to obscene manga . This is what Sick Puppy is about.

Big guns, big violence and big explosions.

And don't forget kids… swearing IS big and it IS clever.

No really… why?

Why do I do this to myself?

Ive changed my mind – sod it, I’ll build a new one, something modern and shiny – all glass and chrome. Yeah, go for it.

Pavlovs Bar, where it all starts.



In the spirit of getting-it-done I’d planned on using the same bar as in BEER, but dressed and lit differently.

Ooooh thats gotta hurt!

The war sequence draws to an end… have to think about what to render next.

Hmmmm – this war segment seems to have spiraled out of control a little.


A lot of this has to do with my lack or storyboards. I usually storyboard a whole scene first – makes sense – but I though that for the war segment, being a little bit random might actually help.




All its really meant though is that Ive got loads of random war shots that hopefully will make sense when I edit them together…. Hopefully

Just finished my last (for now) episode of PUP-FICTION. Also known as SICK PUPPY's WAR ON TERROR.

In which the evil martian vandalist General Spod holds the world to ransom with his GIANT COSMIC SPACE LASER! MoooHoooHahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!

Its tasteful stuff you know.