June 21, 2011

Meet Ryan. Illustrator, designer and also known as the buccaneer Mauser.

He’s been helping us recreate Fighter – who we all know is the famed character/mascot from Fighter Wine.

We made our own interpretation of the character but also kept some of the best features from the original.

Fighter’s two-step guide to stretching your fingers. 1. Bend, 2. Snap.

Since the character is going to be animated in some television spots, we had to create various poses for him. This is Fighter with all the arm poses. Looks freaky/cool no?

A man shouldn’t be all muscle. He should be charming too.

January 2, 2011

March 9, 2010

A book trailer we did for Collateral Consequences.

January 27, 2010

Produced by Cattski Espina
Music by Cattski and Jay Chongbian Young
Motion Graphics by Happy Garaje

January 2, 2010

Happy New Year! from Happy Garaje on Vimeo.

December 4, 2009

A few months ago we signed up to join a fun film project that was masterminded by Irish Filmmaker Frank W. Kelly called 140. Largely inspired by Twitter, a social media platform that lets you put out messages 140 characters at a time, the idea was to have 140 different filmmakers, each shooting 140 seconds of film that answered the question “What connects you to home?”.

The project is still in production now and Frank recently released an interview and posted it on Youtube (see below)

The journals shown at 3:42 are sketchbooks and journals that Johanna gave to me over Christmas. The closing scene of the interview which shows a swan dancing around a music box is something from Johanna’s childhood. Also seen are some lockets and letters we used to send to each other many years ago.

You can also read the paste magazine writeup about 140 here.

July 12, 2009

We’ve been experimenting on a little animated/stop-motion film at Happy Garaje. This is the first few seconds of it. We’re still playing around with the story and hope to shoot more soon. In the meantime, this little newspaper boy is poking around the studio with Moko the monster

July 6, 2009