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I thought I would try and make something a bit different with this video and overall I think it worked quite well. Hopefully the cuteness of the fuzzy, wuzzy, puppet Bear medium allows them to get away with swearing so much...

A few months ago I was lucky enough to win a sketch writing competition run by FunnyOrDie.co.uk and the prize was that they were going to film my sketch. Well it's finally here and they did an absolutely amazing job! I can't believe the cast they got for it either.....

Hello, this is just a quick update as it's been a while since my last video. Not much has been happening on the animation front recently as my PC decided to die after less than two years (Thanks Mesh Computers!) The good news is that I now have a new PC on order from Dell. Here's the specs...

Well this one's a bit rushed but here's my latest animation 'The Inquisitor's VLOG'. I wish I had made two small script changes (and that I was a better animator!) but nevermind. The great voice acting by Chris Lumb covers up those deficiencies rather well.Oh...

No major news this week, no celebrity names to drop or exciting developments to unveil. Just boring WIP stuff.I'm working on my next animation and it's going to feature this guy...

The Piggies animation is finally here! This is my attempt at making something with a bit of a snappier pace than usual. Voiced by Chris Lumb.

I've had two pieces of fantastic news this week in regards to my writing. Although I'm not going to share either of them with you today as I don't want to jinx anything. Sorry!I've been working on writing topical sketches recently, this is partly related to my good news...

To fill the gap until my next animation I've uploaded an old sketch from 2007 to FunnyOrDie.co.uk. It's not just a straight re-upload though! Oh no! I've spent about an hour or so revamping the animation, adding little details to help bring the characters to life...

We recorded audio for two of these quick CSI sketches. The second one had the detective sniggering every time the forensics guy said skidmarks. Just as I was about to start animating I watched Hot Fuzz which had exactly the same joke! Oh well.

I have some friends who are in a band called The Shudders. They're very good, go and check them out. I made this animation without telling them so it was a very nervous few hours waiting to hear back if they liked their art being played over my childish scribbles...

At the end of 2007 I went on a 5 day animation course at UWE. It was great fun mixing with other like minded people and learning some new animation techniques. The most enjoyable part for me was probably the plasticine stop motion projects we worked on...

Well OK, not technically the beginning. Bob had appeared in one of my earlier comic strips before this video was released...

My first ever animation! I made this within a few weeks of discovering Anime Studio Pro (Or Moho as it was called back then). This was when I used to hand draw all my characters and scan them in, oddly enough a technique I'm now returning to two years later.A.A.K...

Due to my previous poor performances in front of the microphone I decided to bring in some hired guns to record the audio for this sketch. Enter Chris and James. A team that would come together many times more...

It was a quiet weekend so I decided to animate this version of an old Tommy Cooper joke. It took about 6 hours from idea to upload, much better than the 2-3 week long projects I've worked on in the past...

Here's a quick 4 second test animation that I made with Blender. One of the many amazing features of Blender is the SoftBodies physics simluation which I used here to automaically animate the petal's flowing motion...

Youtube recently switched their default video format to widescreen so I decided to re-upload my old Superman sketch from last year as it was meant to be seen...

I've written four 1 minute episodes of a mini web series and after leaving the script alone for a week I now can't decide whether it's good enough to warrant the time making it...

According to TubeMogul.com my ShoePie videos have now been watched over a million times! WooHoo! It's kind of pleasing to officially break the big 1 Mill. milestone...

It's finally here! No not Christmas, that's Thursday. I'm talking about the ShoePie Christmas special. James and Chris did an excellent job with the acting, their finest work to date. Unfortunately the animation was a bit rushed due to the immovable deadline...

The Christmas special is progressing very, very slowly! Due to time constraints I've decided to ditch the idea of using hand drawn sketches for the character animation...

Episode 2 of the Project Managers is now live! Please check it out. Warning though! There's lots of swear words. If you enjoy it please comment and rate here.One down one to go! Now I can start work on the Xmas special which is recorded and waiting to be animated.

TubeMogul.com have released a new feature. It's a public profile page (and badge!) to show the world just how many views you've had across all the video sharing sites. Closing in on the 1 Million video views mark which is kind of cool.Update: The stats seem quite unreliable at the moment...

I wanted to have a bit of a news section on ShoePie.co.uk so I could post animation updates and maybe some links to things I like...