This week, animator/comic genius Brad Neely dropped a new short musical animated piece. I wrote a bit about Neely in a previous post, and he is popping up on screen as one of the subjects of the new film We Are Wizards, which examines the subculture around the Harry Potter books (the film played at the NY Underground Film Festival earlier this month, as is in the Independent Film Festival of Boston this weekend).
His new cartoon is musical ditty in which "all of the woodland elves, satyrs and hobgoblins are finally coming together for a ragtime protest ditty against us Homo sapiens." They have a rather impressive list of all the things we get wrong.
Dirty, crude, juvenile, and completely reprehensible. And catchy as hell...
NSFW video after the jump.
Enjoy it on MP3 as well, because it is a great song to hum along with on your headphones while riding a crowded train.
Listen to: Brad Neely, "Fuck the Humans"
Okay, its kinda funny. I like that he does his thing - and more power to him. There is no animation there though, and that being said, he's not really an animator. I don't mean to be overly negative here, because i'd be surprised if even he classified himself as an animator.
I just feel compelled (as a traditional animator) to speak up in recent days as the bar for "animation" keeps getting lowered more and more.
Posted by: DanO | May 01, 2008 at 02:27 AM
DanO, you are an asshole. It's okay though, so I am. We often don't notice we're doing it. In your particular case, you are being an asshole because you claim to define what the "bar for 'animation'" is. I know I know, it'll be okay. Fuck everyone else anyway right?
Posted by: Johnny | February 13, 2009 at 03:09 AM
I actually seriously meant that by the way: fuck everyone else anyway.
Posted by: Johnny | February 13, 2009 at 03:10 AM
Ok, that's pretty amusing. Can't have been just another filmmaking job for the people involved ;) Thanks so much for sharing that :)
Posted by: Dave Williams | July 25, 2010 at 05:29 AM