"Neo-Mickey" animated by Barry Baker

Inkling_Studio · Post by **Inkling_Studio** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:51 pm

Designer Matt Cruickshank posted a clip from a project called "Neo-Mickey" on his blog . Matt designed it and Barry Baker did the animation. Someone had posted in the comments section of the blog asking if it were done with Flash or Moho.

I sent an email to Barry asking if he used Moho to do the animation and he responded back :

Yes, you're right - it was Moho (or Anime Studio as it has been renamed).

Very ambitious, richly realized animation. Take a look :

http://crookiesblog.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... ickey.html

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:10 pm

I loved the music more than anything. Always love IDM/Glitch. Suits the style of animation as well; very bubbly, ambient, fluent, colour rich etc.

The animation is very good - i know what the guy means when he says he doesn't understand his target audience. It's hard to judge with those sort of things. It could just be a case of making a decent short, with a strong storyline, that will appeal to a wide audience. Just like shrek, toy story etc.

But i do like it, and i love the style.... i love the music over the actual whole thing.. but i'm being biased

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:15 pm

Very cool. I just watched it with my 2-year old- wasn't sure how to answer him when he kept asking me what all those creatures were..lol. He loved it though- so I guess it's good for preschoolers! (He's biased too though= he's obsessed with Mickey).

Manu · Post by **Manu** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:44 pm

Reminds me of Poco Loco. That didn't have trouble finding its "target audience".

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:40 pm

barry baker's head turns technique is very astute.
it's a beautiful animation, i fell jealous, i can see almost exactly how was it made (i almost can see all the bones), but i never could do something as good as it is. i really like it.

FrozenDelight · Post by **FrozenDelight** » Sun May 06, 2007 8:15 pm

It seems it's no longer possible to see this anywhere. Isn't there an 'official' way to see it? I really want to see this.

ingie01 · Post by **ingie01** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:17 am

me too me too, I would love to see this also.......
seems it may have been taken down.

FrozenDelight · Post by **FrozenDelight** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:26 pm

I looked for Neo-Mickey for ages, hours. It's not often that I can't find something I'm looking for.

ingie01 · Post by **ingie01** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:02 pm

http://www.graphicdesignbar.com/2007/03/neo-mickey.html This is the best I could do.......

FrozenDelight · Post by **FrozenDelight** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:11 pm

Still no actual video footage. There's just loads of blogs and sites that mostly link to crookiesblog, which is now dead.

All I've managed to find is this nice high resolution picture;

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8571 ... y01bh1.jpg

If anyone can find this animation, please post. Even if it means actually watching the Disney channel, or something else equally as insane. Actually I'm joking, I watch Kim Possible on it all the time

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:21 pm

i had download the video file. but seems to be i erased it some day

... sorry

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:49 pm

what happened to Neo-Mickey? It was fun

FrozenDelight · Post by **FrozenDelight** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:42 pm

Guess what guys and girls...

Myspace

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 2012041975

FLV file and FLV player

http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/185965 ... y-zip.html

Very low resolution, and shorter than expected. I'm guessing this isn't the full version.

ralphrubbish · Post by **ralphrubbish** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:34 pm

fantastic!!
thanks for posting this!
i'm pretty sure its the full version - how much more could he possibly have done in two and a half weeks? - it was just a demo afterall.