Featured on Channel Frederator... Again!

Yehy. Message in a Bottle was featured on Channel Frederator's episode, 'Robbery! Notes! Goats! SWINE! #177'

Please vote for it at http://www.channelfrederator.com/episode/CFR_20090428

 - There's a 21" Cintiq up for grabs! The voting system isn't the most obvious, so here's handy visual aid. Click '(Read more)' near the top of the sidebar, and give a nice fat star rating under my name. We'll love you forever.

Fair Trade on XtraNormal

Louis stumbled across animation site XtraNormal the other day, and I'm already hooked. It's a pretty powerful online animation tool that lets you make your own animated films without so much as a clue of how to animate. All you have to do is pick a setting, pick some characters, and type in a script for them to read out. I had a play with it by putting one of our sketches called Fair Trade into the system, you can see the results here:



The only downsides are the robotic voices, but to be fair, they aren't that bad. It isn't likely to be free for long, so get your creative juices flowing soon.

Introducing the Facts of Life

The Facts of Life are indisputable, carved into the stones of history and knowledge forever to lay down the laws of this world. But who knows them? No one, that's who. So we've decided to put things right by finally educating the world of the amazing, true facts that make our planet such a rich and compelling place. 

To advance your brain by up to a factor of six,  go to www.twitter.com/thefactsoflife to learn a new fact as they pour into the twittersphere. All of the incredible facts will be streamed on this very blog too, so don't waste any time, advance your mind now with The Facts of Life.