Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Stoopid Monkey's youtube channel

Last week saw the announcement and commencement of a new youtube channel created by Seth Green and Matt Senreich; Stoopid Monkey.

I was lucky enough to get a chance to animate a little on Stoopid Monkey over at Buddy System Studios. The Buddies have been exploring and perfecting a unique style of animation using paper-doll-like puppets shot on a downshooter green screen and composited with live action - see their Soulja Boy animation.

Click here to see the Buddies' blogging about Stoopid.


(Cameron Baity did the character animation here, but I animated Stoopid's tail on a second pass.)

Here's a little behind the scenes, including my brief waving scene which is eerily reminiscent to the Hoppus video in the Foo Fighters post:


New videos every Friday for the next ten weeks! Subscribe to the youtube channel and check 'em out!