Lovely Assistant

Just what I need! My old cubes are completely used up

In the 2010s Australian bands were all called "Bear and Fox" and all the street art was wistful paintings of stags and wolves. A celebration of nature, but a different nature, on the computer. Boreal yearning in the stomp clap colony. We didn't have the technology to romanticise emus

I can no longer play from memory any of the Bach or Debussy or whatever that I learnt as a child doing piano recitals, but I can still play the arrangement I transcribed of the music from the snowboard level in Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

Advertisers clamber over each other to quickly make ads in cool new styles while they're still associated with cool new things, and not associated ads. AI generated ads bravely buck that trend, by using the shit new style all consumers hate and associate with spam and propaganda

Wily Wyvern

On Tasmanian souvenirs you will see this motif of people, devils, teddies etc with 2 heads. It's never explicit, but the joke is: we are inbred! It's a cartoon congenital disorder. I have no idea how a tourist is meant to guess this, so I guess it's an in-joke, for Tasmanians to enjoy, in every shop

My best/worst one was years ago when I was high in the Gallery of NSW- so of course in the gift shop I bought one of those kids magic crystal garden growing kits. I put it on the counter and the cashier said "are you Felix Colgrave"

felixcolgrave.bandcamp.com/album/paper-... Hello! I've taken all of the music from my looping paper animations, and unfurled them into longer tracks. Go listen why don't ya!!!!!

felixcolgrave.bandcamp.com/album/paper-... Hello! I've taken all of the music from my looping paper animations, and unfurled them into longer tracks. Go listen why don't ya!!!!!

Trial by Tile

After getting this spider beanie baby named "Godfrey" from a Chemist Warehouse discount bin, my 6 year old has been finding toy spiders and naming them "God Two", "God One", "God Zero", and mused this morning, "I'm thinking of having 100 Gods".

excellent choice sir. That will be one thousand dollars.

Body Surfin'

Getting kind of over microplastics, I barely feel them. Upgrading to macroplastics

The fact that the Australian Broadcasting Company gave all the merchandising rights for Bluey to the British Broadcasting Company, is maddening. It's the AUKUS deal of animation. With all that money, just think, Australia would be able to afford TWO cartoons

People exemplify characters like Hello Kitty + Labubu as peak capitalism because they exist solely for merch. 100% true, but the designs have to appeal on their own- Spiderman or Star Wars can move mountains of equally trash products, but uglier, where the only value is a reference. Kinda worse IMO

Gen AI sucks and would Miyazaki agree, yeah sure, BUT that quote about "an insult to life itself" is specifically about body horror being ableist. Someone procedurally made 3D bodies flail around and said "these could be zombies" and he said "that's really mean." A completely different valid take

Gut Flora

Hello, I may have a level of involvement in this! Including but not limited to the trunk pig

The English language used up all of its one-syllable words on livestock. Each animal can have like 5 names so you can specify age, sex and fertility in a single noise. That way you can discuss animal husbandry really quickly! For other topics, sorry, you're gonna have to use the LONG words

Australian winter: -no Christmas (that's in summer) -no summer holidays (that's at Christmas) -its just cold and nothing happens -do your tax return -you find out what the song of the summer is

Hey I've been working on a thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrO...

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I did the sound+music for this! youtu.be/-7ZVJgmCF0o?...

The Underground

@felixcolgrave.bsky.social and I made this ECARD for Jib jab last year. I enjoyed animating the caterpillars gossiping, I'm sure this is exactly what working in an office is like. #2danimation #animation #retirement

Slices of Lives

The furthest back I can remember politically is the Howard era, which means every LNP leader I've ever seen has had a turn being PM. The party would've been insane to run him again, but I'm grateful to Dutton's electorate for tarring and feathering him and dropping him down a deep hole just in case

My child thinks this is how I procure birthday cakes #animation #cake #2danimation

Just noticed I typed March instead of May. Do not rely on me for up-to-date electoral information you will be 10 months late. I knew what I meant but actual dates and numbers are interchangeable. March and May are the same colour. If you drew a picture on your ballot I would count it based on vibes

In no way jealous of Canada having Trump say all that spooky shit at them, but if he happens to get any weird ideas about Australia then I'd appreciate he say them out loud before, I dunno, the third of March

Most I ever saw was when I was protesting outside a Milo Yiannopoulos talk and a bunch of counter-protestors turned up with Trump 2020 flags (yet didn't attend the talk?) I got pepper sprayed by a cop and went home to wash it out of my hair and it got on my balls and I had to dip my balls in yoghurt

Occasionally see MAGA hat guys about in Australia- which seems a very confused way to do nationalism- but haven't spotted one since the tariffs. I wonder, does the cost of stuff for Americans impact their opinion (how thoughtful), or does the Aus dollar value? Where, ideally, should be great again?

Bounce House

I think Natasha should simply be allowed to make this movie. If everyone on the planet knows your cat and there are countless plastic likenesses of it on the ocean floor that other people made for you, your copyright actually explodes. Jim paid to put this cat in all our brains and so now it's ours

Always funny to me that this water tower looking over the river into Footscray that says JESUS in big letters, is facing the largest Taoist temple in the southern hemisphere with this giant gold Mazu statue. No shade to the adjoining church but your tower has passive aggressive Chum Bucket energy

rain boots

I get constant YT comments saying "hurry up and make more films". But when I'm not uploading films, is also when I am making them. And if I finish a film, that is precisely when I am NOT making one. When I upload a film I do so from a beach, drinking from a coconut. THAT is when you should harass me

Computers been real slow lately so I got myself one of these "efficiency" guys, he's been helping by deleting random system files. Freed up heaps of megabytes that were being wasted on maybe nothing or maybe stopping the computer from exploding. He also installed his own free suite of handy widgets,

More Odetari stuff we did! Zoë had basically done zero 3D before this project, and then decided to spearhead this entire thing with a full rotating set, I am afraid of her she's too powerful

Word on the street is BlueSky doesn't suppress links, so let's see I can influence you to consume!!! I've got about 75 of these snails left for you mollusc heads out there wombot.studio/shop

We've been cooking up some little loops for Odetari at Wombot Studios! Guess what was on his moodboard for this one

gastropod

Had these big googly eyes for a while and I can't believe I didn't think to put them in this exact spot sooner. A brand new Loungeroom Presence

I accidentally made a short film. It was meant to be a loop but it kept growing, I'll put it out relatively soon. Byeee #animation #stopmotionanimation #frog

Movie music goes "this bit is sad. This bit is tense", while game music goes "this bit is a swamp. This bit is a volcano." That's way better actually! Movie soundtracks should try being indifferent to their characters' inner worlds and their stupid little problems and tell you they are in a field

It'd make more sense to platform my fave animation of 2024, but I don't remember. My favourite music release from the past year is this atmospheric, experimental beepy boopy EP by Polygonia, inspired by 'Havoc In Heaven', the 1961 Journey To The West adaptation (see it's still animation related)

the early bird's perch / the earthly worm's dirt

It's so thrilling to me when established traditional artists start playing with digital art in their 70s and 80s like a fun new toy. David Hockney, Gary Larson, Yoshitaka Amano. Almost naive, but then they know what they're doing more than anybody. Perfected visions conjured out of default brushes