This is the second animation I ever did, and it bears all the hallmarks of my distinctive style. Wonky drawing, poor lipsynching and CGI dinosaurs. I rather like the way you can see the teeth behind the lips of the characters, but it was a faff so I don’t do that any more.

You’re probably wondering “Why How does he do these cartoons?” – usually it’s just making a bunch of pictures in photoshop, one for each permutation of character mouth shape and blinking, and then slotting them onto a timeline in a film editing program. No actual animation required.

It’s a fast way of doing it, and it means I can get them finished before I start worrying about whether they’re funny or not.

This cartoon was shown on channel Dave’s Totally Viral and been featured at film festivals worldwide. Well, one film festival. In Canada. Which is quite wide, relatively.

Chad Banger, yesterday

COMING SOON…

He’s the great British sausage – 3 feet of pig intestine stuffed with TRUTH and REASSURANCE and ground-up pig tits and COMMON SENSE.

He works in a bar. Maybe it’s his profession, maybe it’s his face, but people come to him for comforting words about the worries of the day. Concerned about peak oil? GM foods? The war on terror? Global warming? Bird flu? The latest Indiana Jones film? Chad will allay your fears.

Who wouldn’t trust this plain-talking savoury treat?

Reassurance with Chad Banger by James Harris and Gus Hughes is will be a four episode animated series for Channel 4’s 4mations website.

(Here’s hoping for a rainy August so we can get this finished…)