The Nubbin wrote:

how they started "the cartoon characters" or the actual people behind the music?

2D, Murdoc, Russel, and Noodle. Yeah. The cartoon characters.

The two guys who started it, Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn, were roomies for awhile. Jamie Hewlett created some comic called Tank Girl or something. I dunno I never read it. But he supplies the art and visuals. Damon Albarn was the lead singer in the brit pop band 'Blur'. They basically were sitting there watching MTV one day and talking about how "rubbish" the bands were that were being shown on there. So they set out to prove a point that manufactured bands can be done right if you do it right. This fictional band ended up winning more awards than a lot of real bands. I think even 50 cent got ****ed about it. lol! Take that you **** wanksta!

K, I'm done ranting about the awesome Gorillaz. I must say, though, that I love them not just because they hook you with the characters, their story, and their creative music, but because they have so many different music groups that collaborate with them that they actually introduced me to a lot of music artists like Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and MF Doom and such. I think my taste in music changed a lot after playing Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox. I hate radio now. lol.

EDIT: By 'radio' I meant music over the radio. I love Jet Set Radio Future still. lol.

The Nubbin wrote:

thats pretty sweet. i only read the little flash biography from the site. i like them alot but i think you love them much more haha! but when i get together with some of my friends here, we play music similar to theirs because its relatively easy.

Yeah. At least I don't have a deadline and can take my time. When I made my first flash submission for the Feel Good Inc. Collaboration project on Newgrounds.com, I had no prior knowledge on how to use Flash. I kind of looked at a few tutorials and it was kind of rushed. I did frame by frame at 24 frames per second. So in the 3-4 seconds of animation I did for the project, I drew the same character moving slightly about 80 times. It still turned out crappy and I would've spent more time on it if I knew the other people were gonna take as long as they did. I think I spent 3 days on mine. I think I did it the hard way though. I think I'll try to use character models next time instead of drawing everything over and over all the time. That's a pain in the ***.

There's a music video that the Gorillaz never finished but had a full animatic done for it. So I was thinking of doing it and seeing if I can make it good enough so Damon and Jamie might use it. lol. That'd be so awesome. They censored out some parts, though, so I'm gonna have to guess a bit. I think Murdoc actually pulls his underwear down and starts doing a pelvic thrust for the ladies. Kind of disturbing so I'll just throw a black bar up there.  :(

EDIT: Oh yeah, the song was called 5/4. It's the 2nd track on the Gorillaz self-titled CD.

Hey Lucent, if you like that kind of music check out "DANGERDOOM" if you havnt already.

Its a collab between MF DOOM and Dangermouse. and features the characters from Cartoon network's Adult Swim lineup.. its a dope album, and pretty **** funny too, I think its right up your alley.


Skratch OUT! :D

The Nubbin wrote:

your mom.:eek:

Im gonna Kut it up on Nubs Mom'z ONES and TWOS.... :p

................. Then throw a sticky grenade on nubs head.


............................Then T-bag your corpse :cool:

BTW, where can I get one of those mega hyper cool TEAM L.O.S.T sigs ?

I want one... why cant i have one :(

Its cuz Im Canadian isnt it ?....... Jack Bauer is Canadian! you remember that !