I started Cutbacks almost two years ago, furious at what was happening with Lisbon and with Mister Cowen’s government. The stopmotion characters are relatively low-tech, constructed from electrical wire, latex, insulating foam, masking tape, felt and offcut material. The voice is recorded, edited and broken down into frames. The characters are animated against greenscreen, then composited onto photo or video backgrounds. The animation is shot in full HD, though it’s outputted much smaller for internet distribution.
The internet interest has started to build a lot over the past few months, especially since kicking Mister Cowen suddenly became fashionable… A short film Mister Heaney, A Wee Portrait, based on the internet characters, won Best Animation at the 2010 Galway Film Fleadh. The comments, subscriptions and obvious enthusiasm of the audience are all helping to feed and develop the Cutbacks project IP. The problem of ‘monetising’ the Intellectual Property is more complicated. With Barley Films, I’m trying to push different versions of the project towards TV, approaching the Irish Film Board, RTE, TV3 and DCTV. It’s difficult to convince decision makers that the animation material can be turned around fast enough to remain politically relevant. Thanks for all the interest in ‘cutbacks’ and thanks to Allan for pushing it over the past few weeks!

Btw, for even more disgraceful stopmotion, check out rinkydink at… www.youtube.com/user/rinkyTV

Well damn and blast it The Daily Show has blocked Irish viewers (and I assume everyone else) from watching full episodes on their website. I don’t have a television so the site was the only place I could watch it. I’ve been kicked out of the Colbert Nation too.

That’s not funny.

New Yorker, you’ve fallen flat on your face if you consider this satirical. There’s no gag, no slugline, no play. If you wanted to reference the terrorist fist jab you could have riffed on terrorists bumping fists saying, yeah I saw it on Fox, they called it a terrorist fist jab.
This is an EPIC SATIRE FAIL.
Found via Rick and Una.

…only the crazy people know what’s going on!

Unpredictable, astonishing and appalling: Chelsea are back to mirror my life!

Conor Lenihan from this week’s Double Vision.

Woohoo! It’s over! No more brushing my teeth with beer!

Or is it?

Hope you like the new look blog! Charlie’s Double Vision has a new article. Incidently it’s our 200th article together, I must look for the first one and put it up just out of archival interest!