Category: Animation

There’s More Types of Animation than Just Cartoons.

“Don’t Feed The Freaks| Apocalyptic Animated Short Film

We are Thrilled to bring You the NEXT and FINAL Installment of the Apocalyptic Dystopian Animated Short Film Series “Don’t Feed The Freaks” By Scottish Writer, Director, Sculpture, Painter,  Artist, and Animator David James Armsby. The Short Film Series takes place in the Sci Fi Post Apocalyptic Town Known as Autodale where the Citizens are Anything but Normal.

                   

In The Creator’s Own Words:

“If you’re reading this. If you find this book; I’m sorry but I have no answers. But I can tell you what I’ve seen and what I know”.

A young man travels the lifeless wasteland of what was once civilization. He’s following the breadcrumbs of an apparent thriving society hidden somewhere in the vast, long-dead wilderness. This short was crazy-fun to work on. It was ambitious as hell and was the cause of many sleepless nights but I really got to run with my imagination in a way I feel I haven’t for a while. Just balls-to-the-wall creativity and it was really frustrating and really fun. It’s also a story about isolation and I love to make those, considering around 75% of my short films are about being alone. This short film is fourth in a series I’ve created. The other 3 take place within the walls of Autodale and are more dystopian than apocalyptic.”

-David James Armsby-

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Presented By Les Sober 

“Children’s Toys| Dystopian Animated Short Film

So We are Thrilled to bring You the NEXT Installment of the Dystopian Animated Short Film Series By Scottish Writer, Director, Sculpture, Painter,  Artist, and Animator David James Armsby. The Short Film Series takes place in the Sci Fi Post Apocalyptic Town Known as Autodale where the Citizens are Anything but Normal. In this Installment Armsby Introduces a New Kind of “Ugly” that are the Exceptional’s; and How Imagination can Play a Fundamental Role in Uncovering the Horrible Secret of the “System.

                   

From The Creator Himself:

“Imagination. So Powerful. Your children are full of it. Always having their minds drift off into the wonderous and magical expanse of their creativity. Often visualising brilliant and terrible things. Impossible things.” This film is a sequel/spin-off to two previous animations of mine, “Being Pretty” and “No Monsters”. It’s the first of three animated shorts I have planned set in the universe. I honestly forgot how much I like working in this universe. The aesthetic and tone of Autodale is really fun to work with. I know that this short doesn’t really expand on the lore much beyond what we’ve already seen but that’s why it was the idea I told first out of the three. This was a smaller story about manipulation and imagination that I really wanted to tell and I hope you guys enjoy it!”

-David James Armsby-

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Presented By Les Sober  

MILKMAN (Animated Music Video)

We were Perusing some of the Awesome Animation from David Firth (One of Our Favorite Animators) that He did under the Moniker fatpie2. While We were mucking around We Located this Little Slice of Insanity and Couldn’t Be Happier for It. It’s a Music Video that was Animated by David Firth (aka fatpie2) for the Aphex Twins Song MILKMAN  from the Girl Boy EP as Well as Some Versions of the RDJ Album.

All We can tell You about the Video is well Not a Whole Hell of a Lot. Your Ears hear a Cosmically Melodic Collage Radio Alternative Rock like Song, and Your Eyes see some Horrifically Violent Imagery of Murder and Mayhem straight out of a Slasher Movie from the 80’s. These Conflicting Messages from the Two Different Senses causes the Brain to Scramble to make Sense of the Vast Contrast in Information. The Video starts like a Kid’s Show Cartoon as the Lyrics pertain to a Milkman and Then a Bit About HIs Wife. After that things get pretty fucking Weird. The Only issue We have with the Song is the Lyrics get fucking Undecipherable, and End up sounding like a Melodious Moan of Sorts. Anyway after We follow the Milkman on His Delivery Route (and Meet His Charming Wife) He is Inexplicably Murdered by a Psychotic Customer at when He Visits Their House for a Delivery. The Killer is a Deformed Inbred Head Case and Necrophiliac Circa the Movie The Hills Have Eyes Who Proceeds to Murder the Shit Out of Everyone He Encounters. The Sick Serial Killer Murders and Mutilates His Various Victims in a Variety of Classic B Horror Movie Methods. So Whats the Meaning of it All? Hell if We Know.

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Presented By Les Sober  

Flying Lotus: “Ready Err Not”

While Searching the Internet for Strange, Unusual, Odd, Creepy, Disturbing, and Down Right Traumatizing Content Stumbled Across the Music Video for Flying Lotus’s “Ready Err Not” and was Instantly and Intensely Interested. The Trippy Soundtrack was Trance Inducing while watching the Accompanying Array of  Graphically Violent Imagery Play Out on the Screen. Honestly We have a Goddamn Clue Wtf the Song or Video are Actually About We just Know We get a Real Big Kick Out of It. A Surreal Song and Gore Driven (and Bloodsoaked) Graphics what the fuck is there Not to Love?!

                   

Steven Ellison, known by His Stage Name Flying Lotus or Sometimes FlyLo, is an American Record Producer, Musician, DJ, Filmmaker, Songwriter, and Rapper from Los Angeles, California. He is also the Founder of the Record Label Brainfeeder.

In 2006, while Visiting His Mother’s House, Ellison saw an Advertisement on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Programming Block asking for Song Submissions. Ellison decided to Submit a Few of His Songs , Under the Name Flying Lotus (a Moniker Inspired by Lucid Dreaming) and His Songs were Accepted by Adult Swim.

Around this Time, Ellison was Interning at the Pioneering Hip Hop Label Stones Throw Records, and Released His Debut Studio Album called 1983 on October 3, 2006. The Album helped Ellison develop His Eclectic Creative Mission, Forging Compressed, Experimental, Spacey, Electronic, Jazz Rap, and Eastern sounding Hip Hop Beats. The Album Channeled the likes of  Madlib as much as Dntel, while Sampling as Far Back as 1970’s Japanese Proto-Synthpop and 1960’s Jazz Harp.

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Presented By Les Sober 

Filthy Apes and Lions

We Here at FYB are Quite Amused to Present the Claymation Music Video “Filthy Apes and Lions”. The Music and Vocals are By Mark Stoemer and Animated as well as Directed by Lee Hardcastle (Who happens to Be one Of Our Favorite Animators Who’s Work We have Featured Several Times Here at FYB). The Song was a Writing Collaboration between Mark Stoemer and Lee Hardcastle.

                

Mark Stoemer is an American Musician and Songwriter. He is Best Known as the Bassist for the Rock Band The Killers until 2016. In Addition to His Work with The Killers, Stoemer has Released Three Solo Albums one being 2017’s Filthy Apes and Lions. Stoemer also joined The Emo Band The Smashing Pumpkins to Tour in Support of the Band’s Ninth Studio Album Monuments to an Elegy (2014), and Produced The Howling Bells’ Third Studio Album The Loudest Engine.

Stemer Talked about the Songwriting Process behind the Single “Filthy Apes and Lions”: I was doing a Stream of Consciousness, Surrealistic Exercise where You just Write Out Whatever’s on the Top of Your Head, and Then I Started CreatingRhymes, Not Really Knowing where I was going, and then that’s where I got the Lyrics for the Song.

               

Lee Hardcastle is a British Animator Who Specializes in Stop-Motion Techniques. He is Famous for His Handmade Independent Animations. His Work includes Original Remakes of Emblematic 1980’s Action and Horror Movies, as well as Parodies of Animated Series and Video Clips. His Work is Known for its Violent and Gory Content. He has worked with Many Companies including Momentum Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Adult Swim, and has Also Worked with Notable Artists such as Sufjan Stevens. Besides Being a Kick Ass Animator Lee Hardcastle was a Member of the Band Shit The Bed.

Shit The Bed was a Hardcore Punk Band with Grindcore Tendencies  from Leeds, UK Formed in 2000 by Jordan Ramoth, Richard Kenyon, Dom Smith, and Lee Hardcastle when They were in High School. The then 14 Year Old Band Members used to get Together to Share Their Mutual Love of SST Records as well as Other Shitty Bands that 14 Year Olds are Into. In 2006 Shit The Bed put Out Their first and Only EP Titled Camel Bite! that has amassed a Niche Cult Following over the Years since its Release. The Main Lyrical Themes are Gary Coleman, Computer Games, and Massive Natural Disasters. In Addition to Playing Drums in Shit The Bed Hardcastle also made Music Videos for the Band.

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Presented By   Les Sober & FYB

Three Skins Without Men

We are Amped to Present THREE SKINS WITHOUT MEN By One of Our Favorite Animators Mr.David Firth. . For those of You Who do Not Know or May Not Be Aware David Firth is an English Animator, Director, Writer, Musician, Actor, Voice Actor, Video Artist, and Broadcaster of Whom We are a Big Fan of Here at FYB. Several of Firth’s works in Flash Animation, along with Multiple Music Videos and Works of Video Art, have Garnered a Large Followings.

The Animation Includes:

  • A Little Boy and a Girl controlled by a Evil Severed Head
  • A Paranoid Man Who believes Everyone Wants o Piece of His Skins He has Hanging in His Apartment that are His Pride and Joy.
  • A Flashback to a Fancy Dinner Party Attended by Elites that Goes Horribly Wrong.
  • The Evil Severed Head with a New Insect Body.
  • A Painting Called Three Men Without Skins Who’s Subjects come to Life and Go To Bar.
  • Creepy Canine Like Creatures Who’s Heads are Skulls.
  • Mutilated Murder Victims.
  • The Girl Replacing Her Own Head with the Evil Severed Head.
  • The Evil Severed Head goes to Gun Store (Via the Girls Body) to Buy a Gun to Commit Suicide.
  • Store Owner Making a Deal with the Severed Head pertaining to the Gun Purchase.
  • The Murdered Children.
  • The Evil Severed Head Begs Guy Store Clerk to “Finish The Job”.
  • a Flock of Strangely Demented Old Women Float Down to Earth From the Sky.
  • Mutant Dog Singing

Enjoy.

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Presented By    Les Sober & FYB  

Some Odd Animation: VAL VAL VAL

We are Pleased to Present the Animated Short Val Val Val created by one of Our Favorite Animators Ben Wheele whose Work We have Featured on FYB Several Times Before(Henry Eats, Talking House, Cigarette Ad ).

A Bit About Animator Ben Wheele:

Wheele Graduated from The Royal Collage of Art with a Masters in Animation  in 2011, and His Films have been Screened at Festivals Internationally, Including Annecy, Pictoplasma, London Intl.Animation Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival and Stuttgart ITFS. Wheele’s work has also been Exhibited at The Sunday Painter Gallery (London), Gazell.io Digital Art Space, and Broadcast on Adult Swim and Channel 4 (UK). He is also the Founder of ‘Studio Ponk’ and Currently Lectures in 3D Animation and Games at Middlesex University.

               

A BRIEF RUN DOWN:

  • Begins with a Strange looking Being with a Skull Like Face (that Personally Reminds Me of The Misfits Mascot) sitting Alone in an Empty Room.
  • A Second Being Appears Outside.
  • The Being Inside Greets the Being Outside with a “Hello, Facehead.”
  • “Facehead”  takes Acceptation to the Name and Responds with an Irritated “What Did You Call Me?”
  • The Being Indoors then Repeats the Greeting.
  • “Facehead” gets PISSED and says Threateningly “Call Me Facehead One More Time…”
  • A Stand Off Ensues.

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Presented By    Les Sober & FYB   

Kick Ass Animation: THESE THINGS THAT WE DO

FYB is Proud to Present Another Kick Ass Animation by Duo Known as Cool 3D World Titled These Things That We Do. This Particular Animated Video and Music were Solely Done By Brian.

Cool 3D World Backstory:

When Brian and popcorn10 (as Their Youtube Handles Title them) were Introduced via Mutual Friends, They realized They shared an Interest in Exploring “Visual Art Inspired by Electronic Music” and so Cool 3D World was Born- as a Place where the Duo can Create “Art, Music, and More! All in 3D.”

Video Synopsis: This Video seems to Pertain to Human Nature be it Good, Bad, or Absolutely Indifferent. The Characters within the Video Embody the Full Array of Human Emotions from Blissful Joy (For Example: Dancing Like No Ones Watching) all the Way to Anger at the Opposite Side of the Spectrum (For Example: Anger with a Significant Other). This is Humanity and We are All Too Human.

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Presented By    Les Sober & FYB   

Short Horror Film Series Saturday: THE BLACK BULL INCIDENT (Ep. 1 and 2)

We here at FYB are Devilishly Delighted to Bring Our Fans this Insanely Savage Slice of Hellish Horror known as THE BLACK BULL INCIDENT!!!

SERIES SYNOPSIS: Longshoreman Jon Hader feels awful for Abandoning His Friend Tommy during an Incident Outside the Back Bull Pub in London. Meanwhile the World is Going To Hell around Him. The Black Bull Incident is an Original Animated Story Presented in the Style of a Graphic Novel, with Narration, an Original Music Score, and a Visual Effect which Blurs the Boundaries between the “Reader”, and the Stories on the Page. Delivered in Episodes, it Presents an Account of What Happens following the Emergence of some Sinister Pathogen which Leaves in its Wake the Full Horror and Malevolence of Medieval England when it is Released Upon the Unsuspecting and ill-prepared Modern World.

AESTHETIC STYLE: The Technique and Visual Format for BBI makes Use of Original Photographs (Stylized/Post-Produced/ Cut Out), it then Plays with Depth and Layering of the 2D assets to give a Three Dimensional Perspective to the Imagery through Parallax. Essentially it Pushes Scenery to the Background Deep in the Page, and the Action further Forward. At Time, the Technique and Story Additionally Breaks the Forth Wall.

  • THE BLACK BULL INCIDENT CREDITS: 
  •  Produced by Rob Wright
  • Story Concepts by Rob Wright/Si Wright
  • Narrated by Si Wright.
  • Music/ Sound-Design Rob Wright
  • Photography Rob Wright
  • Post Production Rob Wright
  • Presented by Kings of Horror

THE BLACK BULL INCIDENT– Episode 1 “Pretty Rough Around Closing”       Jon Feels Awful. He Decides to Head Back to Rescue Tommy, the Friend He Abandoned during a Fight Outside the Black Bull. An Unthinkable Scene Awaits…..

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THE BLACK BULL INCIDENT– Episode 2 “A Huge Spanner in the Works”              PREVIOUSLY IN EPISODE ONE: Jon Hader Suffered a Nasty Bite to His Arm in an Unprovoked and Frenzied Attack Outside of the Black Bull. Tooled Up, He went back to Help Tommy, the Friend He Abandoned during the Incident, but it was Too Late, Tommy was Dead. The Shock, or the Infection from the Bite, caused Jon to Pass-Out, Hitting His Head on the Floor, Hard. The Next thing He Knows…                                                                                                     EPISODE TWO: Jon meets Jenkins the Archaeologist during His staying the Hospital who tells Him about what was Unearthed at the Dig Site. Things Don’t Look Good, Particularly for Jenkins.

  • EPISODE 2 CAST:
  • Jon Harder: Si Wright
  • Jenkins: Keith ‘Dodgy’ Ellis
  • The Nurse: Nina Wright
  • Archaeologist: Rob Wright
  • Orderly I: Graham Cooke
  • Orderly II: Nick Gamble
  • Orderly III: Darren Talbot

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Brought to You By:

  Les Sober & FYB  

Tidbits for Shits and Giggles: Let Me Hear Your War Cry (Animation)

This Wonderful Little Bit of Absurd Insanity is a Doctored Clip from the the 1987 Vietnam War Movie Blockbuster Full Metal Jacket where the Actor’s Faces have been Replaced with Japanese Mannequin Faces. The Audio of Distorted Screams that Steadily Increase in Pitch is Equally Absurd and Equally Insane. Unfortunately Though there isn’t any Information Available about the Creator of this Audacious Art, and Thus We Can’t give Them the Credit They Damn Well Deserve.

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Presented By    Les Sober & FYB