Southend Film festival is go!

So the Southend Film festival started yesterday, with the first movie screenings starting tonight with the Ladykillers at 6:30 at the Central Museum gallery which I'm gonna be checking out.

I'll also be going to the Student Short film review at the South Ease Essex Collage on Friday and the short film awards on the Monday at the Park Inn Place Ballroom amongst maybe some other screenings too. The latter should hopefully feature a animated film I helped out a little on. And yes, my ident will be played before every single screening! :D

You can find a whole list of what's on during the festival, what times and where on the website.

Tea N Crumpets shop Online! Lucy Lolly DVD and badges for sale!

I've been meaning to set this up since I came back from Comix Thing, and now I've finally got around to it: the Tea N Crumpets shop where anyone can buy the Lucy lolly DVD and any of ten badge designs! I'm only taking payment by Paypal at the moment, and hopefully the shipping methods are not too confusing.

In a nut shell: if you by the DVD, the postage for up to 10 badges is included in the price of the DVD. If you however want to buy badges but not the DVD, you need to add the badge shipping option, which again is for up to 10 badges, and they can be which ever designs you want, just add one to your basket, press continue shopping, then add another etc until you've got what you want.

As for the prices: the Lucy lolly DVD is £6, the large 59mm badges are £1 and the smaller 38mm badges are 50p, and shipping is £1 for the UK, £1.50 for Europe and £2 for anywhere else in the world.

London Zoo Photos and Videos

Over at my Flickr account (which I haven't used since 2007!) I've uploaded some photos of some of the creatures we saw last Saturday at the London Zoo, though I didn't get as many photos as I would have liked as my camera died after just over an hour of being there, poo! Not a problem though as Stacey took a bunch of photos and will posting some over at her Flickr too.

Stacey even got some videos which are up on youtube of us having a laugh while staring at creatures like the owl faced butterfly (where she does her best Cooking/Gardening Mama impression)..

and a clown fish. Hear me doing my automated 'silly voice'.

Birthday pic for Stacey

It was Stacey's birthday yesterday, and for the weekend I popped over to her house and went to the London Zoo, which was ace. May post some photos and stuff later.

This is the main art from my card for her, which is a parody of the James Pond 3 art (see [link]), but not the whole card itself which was designed to be laid out exactly like the box art of the Mega Drive version, and was even stored in a Mega Drive box!

Robo is Stacey's James Pond fan character. Had a lot of fun putting this together entirely from scratch to look as close to the original as possible. And yes, I'm a fat green frog because I had to change the frog into something, lol.

Hot Coco and Choccy Biccies

Long overdue Count Duckula fan art. Loved this cartoon to bits as a kid (right down to owning figures and plush toys of the characters, which I still have), and love it to bits now too (thanks to every episode being released in a nice DVD box set). I still think it has some of the cleverest writing I've ever seen in a cartoon. had a lot of fun drawing this; I wanted to get as many characters in as I could, even those daft clock bats that only popped up to crack a bad joke every once in a while.