My Dad the Evil Genius

Evil Genius is finished and online! (YouTube+Vimeo) I animated this cartoon in-between various other animation gigs. It's the story of a young boy called David and his Evil Genius Dad (Ed) who's trying to destroy all the humans with his evil robot army. Patrick Ytting did a fantastic job with the 1950's monster b-movie inspired score, it fits into the cartoons style of raw bloody violence, ailurophobic robots, electrofried monkeys, stupified cats and heart felt emotion.

Hope you like it... You can never have too many evil robots!

Animated & Directed by Benjamin Wigmore
Music Composed & Arranged by Patrick Ytting

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My Dad the Evil Genius Poster /

My Dad the Evil Genius ~ Trailer 2

New updated trailer for My Dad the Evil Genius cartoon. Directed & animated by me, music composed & arranged by Patrick Ytting

The score is complete! Patrick has done a terrific job composing music that has exceeded all my expectations. See Patrick at work below...

patrickytting · My Dad the Evil Genius, Finale from the soundtrack - Patrick Ytting (Live Encore)

HungedOver Parliament

Keep On Smilin' Gordon Brown!, originally uploaded by Benjamin Wigmore.

InterestingsSsmuch!

A collection of random stuff I've made...

My Dad the Evil Genius ~ Trailer

Short 20 second teaser trailer for my new cartoon "My Dad The Evil Genius".

Golobulus 2010

Happy New Year: It's going to be a strange one! Here's a word from Mr Golobulus...

Zombie Fried Monkey...

This is a render of the EVIL ROBOT 360° from my new cartoon "Evil Genius". Originally the cartoon was going to be 3 mins but extra characters and changes to the story has extended this to 5 mins. I'm finishing the final act but there's still a lot to do with animating a zombie fried monkey, an army of evil robots and some kick ass explosions! 

I'm also gonna re-animate some of the opening sequence and some character shots cause they don't really match up with the later stuff I've done.

screen capture from animatic

Oh yeah, Merry Xmas and see ya in 2010

Bills & Bugs

I've been working freelance for FST Digital on two motion graphics projects for Abbey National and Rentokil. All animated in after fx and flash for online promotion and DVD.

Cakes, Dust and Lines

For the last month and a bit I've been working for iLoveDust in London on an animated commercial for an American drugs company.

The project involved tracing over video of actors in flash and compositing in after fx which took time, patience and a lot of cakes!

Not Cool

Animation Showreel 2009

This is my animation showreel for 2009 which has a lot of crazy ass dancing! It also features work for Working Title Films, Universal Pictures, E4, Wear it Pink Breast Cancer Campaign, Redberry Digital Ltd, Bristol UWE, Mission to Seafarers and the Haemophilia Society (plus others). There's also clips from my upcoming cartoon film called "Evil Genius".

Evil Genius Family Portrait

Evil Genius Family Portrait, originally uploaded by Benjamin Wigmore.

Work on my new cartoon "Evil Genius" continues although I'm still a while from the end. I'm 24 (or 0:00:24:01) seconds into the third act and it has been constant layout and then execution of the animation which is why it was nice to spend an hour drawing this family portrait.

BOOGER EYE STING for E4

 

I animated this sting for an E4 competition. The screaming was performed by yours truly ;)

The Elephant in the Room

This is a short 30 second cartoon which took about a day to make and I have no idea what it's about. Enjoy!

The Elephant and Man Short

In the process of making a new short starring an elephant and a Thudercats sword! The short is gonna be on my YouTube channel and I'll post it up here when I'm done.


Here's a link to my only popular vid on YouTube called Baker Day. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin I made Baker Day when I was 16 years old using the only application I had that could do animation, Macromedia Director 5.0!!!

Can't Help The Animal I Am

"My process is thinking, thinking and thinking. Thinking about my stories for a long time. If you have a better way, please let me know."

Hayao Miyazaki

Act One "Evil Genius" Cartoon (No audio yet)

Here's act one of my new cartoon with the working title of "Evil Genius". No audio yet but I'm looking for the perfect evil laugh (well isn't everyone?).

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla for July 10

"Evil Genius" Cartoon (in the works)

Act one of my cartoon "Evil Genius" is just about done.

Here be some images...





Evil Genius on Wikipedia
Mad Scientist on Wikipedia

Skadoosh!