Really stoked to be a sponsor for this years Southbound and Down 2 in Tampa, Florida! Last years show was a big hit, and this years event looks to be even bigger and badder!
The details: September 26, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at The Boardr – 4611 North Hale Ave. Tampa, Florida.
Here’s the new Choptoon I created for the event. Artist Richard Minino’s three-headed vulture was a blast to animate. Hope ya dig it!
Southbound and Down 2 from Doom Cycle on Vimeo.
All Choptoons are now free to watch right here on the site. Check ’em out in widescreen HD as often as ya like.
Jason Cruz is one of my favorite artists workin’ today, and back when I had the opportunity to interview him for the site, the Choptoon I created for it was somethin’ that turned out pretty cool. Since then, I’d teamed up with Motornation.tv to bring you the Doom Cycle channel, but I couldn’t bring Jason’s video along because we used a Led Zeppelin track for the music. “Hey Page, can I use ‘Good Times Bad Times’ for this animated chopper ‘toon I’m workin’ on?” Haha, yea, like that’s gonna happen.
So to get this thing aired, the music had to go, and for awhile I was really stuck trying to find a replacement. How the fuck do you follow up one of Zeppelin’s signature tracks, right? But then I was talkin’ to Daniel over at Riding Easy Records, and he said ya gotta check out Slow Season, one of the bands on the label. Sure ’nuff, first track I heard, “Sixty-Eight”, blew me away. It was fuckin’ perfect! Hard, mid-tempo, bluesy, and with that authentic boogie I hoped Jason would love. If ya haven’t grabbed their album “Mountains” yet, Riding Easy Records just released a second edition in an assortment of flavors. Grab it!
With the perfect track in hand, it was time to trim it up, drop it in, tweak some stuff to line it all up, and… wait a sec. I could do that scene better now. This bit should be longer. That’s not smooth enough. What if I animated more stuff, like forks compressing, knees waggin’, and pot leafs swingin’? Maybe I should include more artwork, and animate stuff that didn’t move last time? Hell yea! Gonna start this baby from scratch.
So here it is. Free to enjoy as often as you’d like over the next 24 hours before it heads over to the Doom Cycle channel on Motornation.tv. Hope ya dig it as much as I had puttin’ it all together.
Man, I should revisit some of the other videos too.
Music by Slow Season – “Sixty-Eight”. They appear courtesy of Riding Easy Records. Grab the vinyl from Riding Easy Records or get it digitally on iTunes.
Here’s the full HD Choptoon to get you acquainted with the first pair of shirts ever offered by Doom Cycle! The first half is a riff on the design “Ritual“ by artist Matt Wilkins, while the second takes on “Astronauta“ by artist Luis Mayer. After you’ve seen the film, buy some shirts! The sales from these two will allow me to keep bringin’ ya badass designs by some of the raddest artists walkin’ the Earth.
I’d like to extend a HUGE thanks to Ripple Music for the use of the killer track by the band Mos Generator! Head on over to Ripple to grab their album “Nomads“, and stuff your cart with albums by all the other rad bands on their label. You can swing by Ripple‘s Bandcamp page to check out all the bands before ya buy. Killer stuff!
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