Have a wonder over to the Media Molecule blog for more behind the scenes action. I believe Rex is involved with this bunch on the development of Little Big Planet, which looks like it’s going to be one of my favourite games of all time. Animation sketch vid of SackBoy the main character. Watch the work in progress trailer below. It’s pretty good! Kind of excited about this lil fella. Action packed and busting with fun stuff. I own a Wii but i might even get a Playstation for this one.  SackBoy wallpapers available from the Little Big Planet developers Media Molecule.  

Rare shots of monsters caught on camera through the ages. Collection by Relleno De Mono.

 I can’t say anything. You just have to watch it. There’s a slight touch of the Aphex Twin about it. Dark. Video produced at SCAD where there’s more shorts for your viewing pleasure.  

These doods are amazing - the little conjoined buddies at the top complete with beard and cap. The littlest one has got a right cheeky grin on. And that pile of wiggley worms must have taken Nina forever to make. That’s a lot of stuffin’ ! A nice article and more onfo on Ninas’s work over at Helium Cowboy. Nina’s own site here. The knotted one reminds me of the Knotted Happy Snakes, Cookie and I made for Knotty and Mrs.Knotty when they got married : D

Click through to see a page of many creatures Control > Zoom in for some sweet details.

Lots of people have asked for tips on how to get going with their own exciting monster creations. So here’s a 1-2-3 ‘How To’ poster to download that i made for the Workshop at Shunt. It’s A3 format so you can see the details. Most important tip is to remember to leave a hole in his arse to stuff him through! If you do make anything, i’d love to see photos - mail them over Monster Makers.

These were my first customers the other day, a lovely bunch of Irish fellas. They got well into it and started the ball rolling for fellow chap monster makers to join in. We had mostly boys on the second night, about 30 people in the end. And some wild and crazy creations were flowing out of the Shunt bunker. Cheers to Lee ( top left ) for snapping these, who gets the Thursday night award for most sinister monster, Legless the Rabbit. I hope your sister wasn’t too freaked out by it when she unwrapped it for her birthday! The nappy accessorization took off in a big way, inspiring a plethora of bloody weird outfits, as competitive sewing began to ripple around the room.

Drop me a mail here at Monster-Munch if you fancy coming down to the next Making Things Club : ) Thanks everyone who had a go. It was brilliant fun, and really nice to meet you all.

Our big day out was recorded in style by our very own Making Things Club JayPeg. More tonight! And we’ll leave the kit out for you on Friday and Saturday night if you wanna get stuck in Some Rex Felt Tip Tattoo action above too.

Thanks so much everyone for coming down to Shunt last night to take part. I stopped in my tracks part way through the night and looked up to see about 30 people had accumulated behind me all frantically beavering away, scissors and felt teeth a-flying with a full club going on in the background. Such a funny sight. We even had a crowd of spectators. Brilliant evening! Pictures coming very soon ( or as soon as Marc gets in ).

Rex’s MTV animated series was on show, and by the end of the evening we were all sporting genuine one off Rex monster marker art all over our bodies. Brilliant!

Jay’s awesome badges for the participants.

I’m having an exhibition! Come down and oggle the monsters.

The creatures have been gathered from miles around, preparations are being made… and here they are tucked up in my suitcase ready for the big day out. An exciting trip to Art in Industry!

Come down and get your hands dirty - along with the chaps from Making Things Club we’re doing a Sock Monster Workshop. So don’t miss it! Wednesday 16th 6pm onwards, at SHUNT - a bar, club, theatre space in some creepy creeeepy catacombs.

Artists’s on their day off….
It is a week showcasing the art of professionals in the creative media industries. Participating are over 25 artists from the worlds of video games, web design, film and tv, illustration, motion graphics and design. The only stipulation for the artists was to contribute pieces not created in their day to day work. The work presented ranges from fine art to nu media; images and sound; analogue and digital: presented on amongst other things canvas, screen and your body.

Showing are creatives from Poke, Framestore, Iris, Sony, Kuju London and loads more. And of course the highlight - Rex will be revealing for the first time his top secret animation series for MTV - Nice one! Here’s a video of the space, it’s reminiscent of the Titty Twister bar from From Dusk til Dawn ( but with less vampires ). I’m quite excited.

Sunday was a sunny afternoon and families from all over Hackney were down at the park for StokeFest. This is a segment from some jolly live street art action with Rex, on a Tee Pee! Yey. Summers here - lets go outside.

This is probably my favourite Monster illustration of all time. Quality monsters and hand drawn type abound in Andy’s portfolio of screen prints, and his shop. Cookie had this on his wall until he started the walk .. so i stole it! ..It’s mine now ..MINE! hahaaaaa

Leigh Pearce’s blog 75 has a few creepy characters for your perusal, including this Coal Ghost and a fine little Goat Boy box to download, cut up and glue together. Nice mouth details!

These three beauties are from We Shall See. A blog written by Chris Gray, who spends his days at LOVE - the Manchester based studio - who seem to be doing some of the best work i’ve seen in a long time. You can see in everything they do that they really do love it. That’s quite something, and a bit of an inspiration. Lots and lots of nice ideas and beautiful executions on Chris’s site so if you’ve not clicked on anything else yet - click on this.