Life On Ben

TV series featuring the voices of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Jemaine is the green guy and Taika is the purple guy. They come from Ben's butt but are taken from their home violently and planted at the base of Ben's nose when he gets an itch down there and then picks his nose. The series follows the two symbiotic creatures on their quest to get back to Ben's butt making contact with a surreal zoo of creatures that call Ben home. Created and directed by Luke Nola. Television Spacaman Ltd. Producer Neil Stichbury, Animator Any Elworthy, Simon Good, Models Shalom Watkins, Set - Adrian Bennet.

sargifster wrote:

TV series featuring the voices of Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Jemaine is the green guy and Taika is the purple guy. They come from Ben's butt but are taken from their home violently and planted at the base of Ben's nose when he gets an itch down there and then picks his nose. The series follows the two symbiotic creatures on their quest to get back to Ben's butt making contact with a surreal zoo of creatures that call Ben home. Created and directed by Luke Nola. Television Spacaman Ltd. Producer Neil Stichbury, Animator Any Elworthy, Simon Good, Models Shalom Watkins, Set - Adrian Bennet.

Does this need its own thread? :#idea#:

Or shall we see how it progresses?

gezyka wrote:

Ok, it's mostly love, but I HATE when bodily things are personified, [size=150:3gxh57ye]thanks to some nasty commercials in the US. :#haha#:

That said, these aren't very gross and the description is :#lmao#: ....and Jem and Taika!! :#excited2#: :#love3#: :#excited2#: :#love3#: :#excited2#:

chrissycubana wrote:awwww - it says "
dedicated to mum"
at the end of that one :#love3#:

( :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: )

Amily wrote:

chrissycubana wrote:awwww - it says "
dedicated to mum"
at the end of that one :#love3#:

( :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: )

Mum should be so proud. :#lmao#:

chloe wrote:This is the most adorable digusting show ever! :#rofl#: :#love3#: :O_o:

Life on Ben- Lisa Jane Gray Animation Supervisor - Stop-motion Animator 15 minute stop-motion , live-action film- Video courtesty of Panmure Pictures, Auckland, New Zealand (c)

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The Germinator : “Come with me, if you want to live!”[/align:1cjoq5y4]

Experience in advertising and late-night comedy performance gave Luke Nola, creator/director at RepublicTV a head start when it came to creating and directing his own animated concepts. He specialises in mildly educational animation for children. “Did you know that 90% of the bacteria on your skin is not your own?”

This is the concept behind the weird animated series Life On Ben Here the expression “TV Host” takes on a whole new meaning as we meet microbial inhabitants of his body;
germs, pus, snot and ringworm characters who ooze, spit, and fart as they educate.

“For this series I wanted the look to be lush and organic. Plasticine suits the story and subject matter - makes it tangible. Kids pick up on the handmade, number 8 wire look, feel they can reach out and scrunch it.” For Nola CGI was out of the question. “To reproduce reality of a 3D world digitally is really expensive. Those guys working the lighting effects in Shrek and Robots took years to get those effects. You can’t just dial that up.”

Fellow writers Glenn Wood and Paul Yates were careful to ensure scripts were scientifically accurate. The Department of Microbiology at Auckland University was consulted to ensure each episode contains a new factual lesson.


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It is the sad song of the animator that short timeframes and limited budgets make for excruciating pains for animators as they attempt to meet unrealistic deadlines. Luckily TVNZ and NZ On Air have been very understanding of the process and have been generous with completion dates. From approval of the pilot show to completion of the series, 18 months have elapsed. It took Nola and animator Anthony Ellworthy ( Fireman Sam and Tim Burton’s next feature The Corpse Bride) eight months to complete 10 two-minute episodes, achieving a rate of eight seconds of footage per day.

It must be a labour of love for Nola. How else to explain the unhealthy interest in greeblies? Apparently, it all comes from Nola’s childhood and his mother’s obsession with washing him. “There’ll be germs on you”, she used to say,” You can’t see them because they are tiny, but they’re still there”. Now everyone will be able to see them, crawling across in their TV screens on TV2 in July.

emira wrote:

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[size=150:byba7rg2]Here the expression “TV Host” takes on a whole new meaning

Fellow writers Glenn Wood and Paul Yates were careful to ensure scripts were scientifically accurate. The Department of Microbiology at Auckland University was consulted to ensure each episode contains a new factual lesson.

Tim Burton’s next feature The Corpse Bride

It must be a labour of love for Nola. How else to explain the unhealthy interest in [size=150:byba7rg2]greeblies?

chrissycubana wrote:

Tim Burton’s next feature The Corpse Bride

woah! this HAS taken a long time. CB = 2005, so this predates Burton's film.

emira wrote:

chloe wrote:This is the most adorable digusting show ever! :#rofl#: :#love3#: :O_o:

Agree :#lol#: It's like watching Eugene. You can pee yourself and others around from laughing and think "
yuk!"
but then "
ooooo!..."
:#lol#:


YAY!!!!!! Jemaine and Taika working together again! :#cheer#: :#cheer#: :#cheer#: :#cheer#: :#cheer#: I bet they had a lot of fun recording this. :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#:


ADD
Isn't Ordinary Alien's friend's name Gordon? :#idea#:

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Jemaine = Gordon... Gordon's chest hair :#rofl#: :#rofl#: :#rofl#:

chrissycubana wrote:
related: isn't taika's character in EvS named "
Gordon"
???
:#idea#: