I don’t think the festival has it’s own website but full details can be found here.

Sorry once again about posting this  late, especially if we do have any fans in Russia who wanted to see it. I’ll try to make sure I keep on top of updating the site if anything important comes up in future.

Homegrown Programme 3 will be playing in:

Auckland, 25-Jul-2008, 5:45PM and 26-Jul-2008, 2:30PM

Wellington, 1-Aug-2008, 6:15PM and 3-Aug-2008, 6:00PM

Check the Film Festival website for more details, also there should be booklets available from all kinds of places, usually outside the Civic in Auckland, don’t know about Wellington, I think libraries have them.

We’ll certainly be there for the Auckland screenings, so please come along if you’d like to support us and see some Rhubarb Zoo animation on the big screen!

Updates to this site may be far and few between but we assure you that we have indeed been working hard.

This has already been announced elsewhere but we’re proud to officially announce the completion of our second short film, Entropy. We have been submitting it to film festivals and will let you know if we have any luck with that. We’ve also updated the Entropy section of the website with a couple of new screenshots and new versions of the old ones, which you can see here. Eventually the film will be made available to purchase in some form or another, more details on that will be posted closer to the time.

We’ve been busy writing the story to our upcoming web series, tentatively titled Caleb’s Trial, for which we’ve started a blog so you can follow the progress of its creation. The development of the series is fairly slow going for the moment but will ramp up quite a bit when we get into designing the characters and environments. So the blog probably won’t be updated too often for the first few months, but it should get more interesting later on.

Last but not least, we released the Ectype’s End soundtrack (along with a brand new bonus track) which you can find here. Sometime soon we’ll also make the mp3 of Ode to James available to download as well with a couple of remixes of it.

Dane and Jeremy

Over the last month or so we’ve had some great exposure for Ectype’s End and Rhubarb Zoo. We’ve been featured on Channel Frederator’s Christmas blog (go check it out!) and have recieved a trillion lovely comments on our Rhubarb Zoo DeviantArt Page (largely due to Ectype’s End being featured as a Daily Deviation).

So to everyone that has discovered us or spread the word over the last wee while we want to send a ridiculously huge thanks your way, with hugs and kisses an optional extra. We hope you have a fantastic new year and are ready for what we’re cooking up for 2008!

J and Dane

The gears of the small yet imposing juggernaught that is Rhubarb Zoo are slowly grinding. I don’t doubt you’ve noticed the shiny new Ruzu page - and if you’re fresh I’ll extend a warm and hearty handshake to accompany the welcome above. We’re getting very close to finishing our second short film - it’s classically animated through and through and is looking pretty pretty in HD format if I may say so myself - check out the Entropy page here for a taste of what’s to come.

We’re actually quite friendly people despite what you might already assume - we’d love to hear what you think of our short film Ectype’s End and your thoughts on animation or other (more potentially bizarre) subjects in our fledgeling forum.

If you live in New Zealand and spend money on magazines its likely you’ll have heard of the bi-monthly publication Idealog. We’ve been featured in the newest magazine under the title ‘Not For Kids’ (specifically to draw attention to how hardcore we are). If you find yourself lost and lonely in a bookstore pick it up for a flick-through and imagine a warm Ruzu embrace as you read it. This issue won’t be hard to find - it’s has an impossibly orange cover and the words ‘billion’ ‘poverty’ and ‘trillion’ on the front.

We’re ridiculously excited about our plans for next year - all will be revealed in the coming months but suffice to say that we’re planning something no mortal or sane man would dare attempt. Women might; I’m not all that sure about them yet.

Well, we hope you enjoy Ectype’s End and browsing the site. We appreciate any feedback, encouraging or degrading, in the comments below or the aforementioned forum. Thanks for stopping by!

J and Dane

Event - Urbis Animax festival of contemporary international animation
When - July 27th, 7:30pm
Where - Our City O-Tautahi, corner of Oxford Tce and Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch
Details - 12 animated short films from New Zealand and abroad, running time 67 minutes, restricted to ages 16+
Price - $10 at the door or book through ticketek

Just a short note to let you know that Dane and I are, in fact, still alive and working hard. We’re currently in the process of doing some shmancy art for the new website, have purchased a shiny new digital camera which will be used heavily in some of our future animations, and are attending other exciting work that shall remain under lock and key until its ready to show you guys.

We are also available for some short-term commissioned work for the next little while, if you are after professional illustration or animation drop me a line by clicking the bright red ‘ruzu’ above, and we can give you a quote.

Until then, take luck!

Dane and I have have been hard at work finishing off scenes for our 2/3 minute course animations to get as much finished as we can before EXHIBITION TIME!

This Friday and Saturday, if you are around Parnell you should pop into the exhibition room and check out our partially completed films, well before we release them onto the general public! The rest of our classes films are also on display, so it’d be well worth a visit!

The deets:

Jubilee building 545, Parnell Road, Parnell
Friday and Saturday 10am - 5pm

I will be there looking after the place from 12 - 2 on Saturday so if you can make it around then we can chat about life, the universe, and everything.

J Out