TomEllard Videos

Cheesy robot pilots battle for the planet and disco nightlife. You have seen these pilots massed outside travel agents - you know they move when you're not watching - here the awful truth is revealed at last in high definition. First made in 2004 in standard 4:3, now regenerated at great personal cost from the original source files, extra string and leeches. Special note - the last version had a different president. The choice of current president is simply a matter of accuracy and pilots ...

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Auntie Bun pops down to the shops to get some lamingtons for tiffin. Unfortunately on the way she has large metal spike jammed in her head by an atomic metal stomping enforcer. (Really, do you need a story?) It's also glam. Finally got back to this clip after a few years, adding some shadow catching walls, fixing various horrid polygon self intersections (the right hand!), actually aiming the damn lights properly and all kinds of nip and tuck. Art is never finished, just abandoned on youtube....

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If you do not brush your teeth Satan will drag you down to hell and then use you as a toothpick! This super 8 film from the 1970's shows exactly what will happen to bad children who do not brush regularly! They will also grow up to be fascist socialists and marry homosexuals. This is the last rough cut I'm going to reveal before the REDACTED. You'll just have to be there!

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Parents ashamed to explain refinement of splesh to their children: this classroom film will help. At the tower top two rollers of wanking hands draw power from the sun via photosynthesis. Their rotation flounces the three elliptical pistons drawing jelly along pipes feeding into the buckets, under the art direction of the comical ballet shoe. Each bucket is then positioned over a vat of squirming clones, dousing each clone in the jelly. As clones are doused their humiliation rises up to the ...

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He's fat, funky and full of fun! But the local morality brigade don't approve. He'll boogie and they'll curse. But who will win, fat or thin? Based very loosely on a real life incident. One of a number of live videos being remade in HD for Severed Heads 30th birthday on December 2009. The car heads are a persona in case that isn't obvious. It's quite hard to find clothing for fat 3D people, so lots of stretching going on. Some of his dances are motion capture but the rest has been hand posed ...

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Romance blooms in the synthetic realms! It's boy meets girl meets code debugging, But they don't mind some stray pixels; the simulation gets reset if they do. Their love is true even if they aren't. A remake of a video from 2003, used in live shows by the Australian group Severed Heads. This version is part of a project to update a series of videos for the band's 30th birthday, December 2009. The idea is match up some disco with uncanny valley. 3D animation is an artform which aspires to ...

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Long Stubbies! Long Stubbies! Long Stubbies!

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Ugly Dave Grey is trying to get a hold of Ray's long potted vine. He offers him a taste test that Ray has 'obviously done before'. But Ray is not seduced by Ugly Dave Grey's spreads. At no stage does Ray let go of his plant. Can your husband taste the difference?

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And as Donna and I say ... Have A Musical Day

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Everybody starts somewhere. This is an excerpt from an overly long video piece I recorded from late 1984 into early 1985. I shot the footage on a VHS port-a-pak which I lugged around Sydney, Australia, looking for who knows what. I cut the scenes into small hypnogogic spinning a waving sections and layered up two passes on umatic tape, using Stephen Jones' video synthesiser to create the treatments. My first attempt at synthesis led to the more brightly coloured segments, as I learned how to ...

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