There was a Young Lady of Welling,
Whose praise all the world was a-telling;
She played on the harp, and caught several Carp,
That accomplished Young Lady of Welling.
– Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (1846)
The 16th episode of Nonsense Stories features the art of Woodrow Martin, and animation by Ahmad Philips, Jerimiha Newlon, Frauke Wright, Artie Romero and Matthew Rebel. Here’s a link:
http://blip.tv/nonsense-stories/nonsense-stories-16-young-lady-of-welling-6233075
Watch today’s new episode on Blip.TV:
http://blip.tv/nonsense-stories/nonsense-stories-15-rats-ate-his-hats-6221121
There was an Old Man who supposed
That the street door was partially closed;
But some very large Rats ate his coats and his hats,
While that futile Old Gentleman dozed.
– Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (1846)
Producer-Director: Artie Romero
Story: Artie Romero
Voices: Ron Hayden and Squeaky Toy
Associate Producers: Woodrow Martin, Anne Hecker
Music: Footage Firm, Inc. (intro) and Kevin MacLeod’s “Fenster’s Explanation” http://www.incompetech.com
Limerick: Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Whiteboard art: Matthew Rebel
Animation: Brittney Owens, Anne Hecker, Matthew Rebel
Caricature: Bill Crowley
Post-production: Tim Romero
All “celebrity” voices are humorous impressions created by voice actor Ron Hayden.
Copyright 2012 ARG! Cartoon Animation LLC
All rights reserved.
http://blip.tv/nonsense-stories/nonsense-stories-14-old-man-of-peru-6209185
Crime and punishment are the theme of the 14th episode of Nonsense Stories, premiering this morning on Blip.TV, starring the wife of that unfortunate man of Peru. Richard M. Nixon is on hand to express his sadness and revulsion over the heinous crime that led to our Peruvian’s unfortunate demise.
There was an Old Man of Peru,
Who watched his wife making a stew;
But once, by mistake, in a stove she did bake
That unfortunate Man of Peru.
– Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (1846)
Producer-Director: Artie Romero
Story: Artie Romero
Voices: Ron Hayden, Artie Romero
Associate Producers: Woodrow Martin, Anne Hecker
Music: Footage Firm, Inc. and Kevin MacLeod’s “Netherworld Shanty” http://www.incompetech.com
Limerick: Edward Lear
Whiteboard art: Matthew Rebel
Animation: Kemi Oyebade, Woodrow Martin, Andrew Woolnough, Artie Romero, Matthew Rebel
Caricature: Bill Crowley
Post-production: Tim Romero
All “celebrity” voices are humorous impressions created by voice actor Ron Hayden.
Copyright 2012 ARG! Cartoon Animation LLC
All rights reserved.
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– Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (1846)
Executive Producer: Tim Romero
Producer-Director: Artie Romero
Story: Woodrow Martin and Artie Romero
Voices: Ron Hayden and Artie Romero
Associate Producers: Woodrow Martin, Anne Hecker
Music: Footage Firm, Inc. and Kevin MacLeod’s “Rocket” http://www.incompetech.com
Limerick: Edward Lear
Whiteboard art: Matthew Rebel
Animation: Andrew Woolnough, Wayne Sullivan and Matthew Rebel
Caricature: Bill Crowley
Post-production: Tim Romero
Sound effects: Artie Romero
All “celebrity” voices are humorous impressions created by voice actor Ron Hayden.
Copyright 2012 ARG! Cartoon Animation LLC
All rights reserved.
http://artie.com
ARG! Cartoon Animation Studio of Colorado Springs is producing the first season of a series of short cartoons, Nonsense Stories, for Blip.TV and network television distribution. The show premiered April 1st on YouTube, and the studio uploaded the first 3 webisodes to Blip.TV today, June 7. Starting Monday, June 11, new shows will appear exclusively on blip.tv for six days before being posted on YouTube the following Sunday.
http://blip.tv/nonsense-stories
Based on limericks by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846), the show features the vocal stylings of Rhode Island based impressionist Ron Hayden. Hayden claims to include more than 200 celebrities, politicians and sports personality impressions in his act, and thus far more than 50 of these characters have been parodied in the first season of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Stories.
Artie Romero is the producer-director of Edward Lear’s Nonsense Stories. From the ARG! studio’s facility in North-Central Colorado Springs, Romero manages a crew of more than fifty artists, animators, interns and technicians to bring this production to the screen. Many of the animators and artists are Colorado based, including caricature artist Bill Crowley of Caricatures America. Romero has 31 years of animation screen credits, including digital effects work on Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and numerous TV, movie and commercial production credits and awards.
There are 33 short cartoons in production for the show’s first season. Romero stated, “ARG! is compiling a 7 minute anthology for distribution to TV nationwide and in Great Britain it will appear on BskyB.”
According to Dallas based TV producer Joel M. Stevens of Morcaman Productions, Inc., HOT TV (History Of Television) plans to include the Nonsense Stories anthology in its fourth season of Sprockets and Splices, a nationally syndicated showcase for independent film shorts.
Besides A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear, a contemporary of Englishmen Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, created childrens’ stories such as “The Owl and The Pussycat,” and is credited with coining the expression “snail mail.”
Blip.TV is the place to discover the best in original web series, from professional and up-and-coming producers. The site gives viewers free access to a wide variety of dramas, comedies, arts, sports and other shows. The series showcased on Blip are hand-picked by their editors.
This is Woodrow Martin drawing a storyboard panel on a whiteboard for Edward Lear’s Nonsense Stories webisode 12, “A Young Lady of Lucca,” in the ARG! studio, as a friendly dinosaur recites the Lear verse in the foreground. Here is the finished cartoon:
There was an Old Man of Coblenz,
The length of whose legs was immense;
He went with one prance from Turkey to France,
That surprising Old Man of Coblenz.
–Edward Lear, “A Book of Nonsense” (1846)
http://youtu.be/Qd1eM0CnKys is webisode 11 in ARG’s Edward Lear’s Nonsense Stories series of webisodes.
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Producer-director: Artie Romero
Whiteboard drawing: Matthew Rebel
Celebrity voice impressions: Ron Hayden
Animation by Jieting Chen, Andrew Woolnough, Kristen Pontius and Matt Rebel
Caricatures: Bill Crowley
Music: Kevin MacLeod and Footage Firm, Inc.
Post production: Tim Romero
