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Monkey’s Journey to the East

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 8:25 am by Jami

My wife sent this to me this morning to help start my day. AWESOME!

The Monkey King, Pig, and Friar Sand have journeyed the West. Now, the trio head East for the Olympic games.

This animation is freaking bad ass! And if it looks kind of like the Gorillaz, it should. Jamie Hewlett, the mind behind the look of the Gorillaz, is one of the producers of the short. There’s a little production feature on the animation that gives a little insight on what it takes to create a two minute piece of extreme bodacity.

[Via BBC]

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7 Responses to “Monkey’s Journey to the East”

  1. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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    And that’s still going to be better than the DBZ movie.

  2. AvatarVonKraut
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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    On an unrelated note, when did you start selling Asian Brides?

  3. AvatarJami
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 9:09 am
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    @VonKraut, oh noes! The secret is out!!

  4. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
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    Well since your secret is out, I’d like to place another order for four and one half of your most attractive brides.

  5. AvatarRichard "Pocky" Kim
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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    Asian brides? O.o

  6. AvatarDevlin
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
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    The water and flames are flippin’ sweet!

    Interestingly, this directly ties in with a new opera that Damon Albarn composed and Jamie Hewlett designed the sets for. I think it is either currently or about to be playing in London. It debuted in China, where it is set. You might try searching the NY Times for the article their article about it a few months back.

  7. AvatarTyler
    Posted: Jul 24th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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    This is possibly the greatest thing I’ve seen Hewlett do.

    and @Devlin I actually read a bunch about that in Wired too.

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