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Harry, Who is the animating God doing those fantastic animated Harry heads' Click here to learn more!

Hey folks, Harry here. I've been getting tons of emails asking me about the amazing (obviously not animated by Harry) animated Harry heads. Well, I admit it. It sure as hell is not me. First... the person that designed the Harry head that looks straight atcha is a fella by the name of Chris Shaylor (I lost his email address when my Netscape crashed, but just as soon as he re-emails me, I'll post it)

Now, I've been dying to have that Harry head all animated and moving around. So I would do my little rudimentary grade school versions of animation. Exorcist Harry, Lick Snot Harry, Blink Harry, Wink Harry and Stick Tongue out Harry. And that's what my vast lack of talent could muster.

So, after Darth Siskel sent me the Harry shot in the forehead animation, I just decided... well, perhaps there might be some really talented people out there. Maybe... just maybe, a real life animator will waste a few minutes of his life and make my head turn. After all, the crick in my neck was killing me.

This is where Cartuna took over. The first animation he sent me was this one:



When I saw my head do that first little turn, and then saw that fucking alien tongue bite thingy come out, I about shit a brick. I was like. DUDE, THAT ROCKS! Cartuna said he was going to work on the rotating Harry head. I emailed him and asked if he could place the little graphic background behind my head so it would have continuity with the site design. And about 4 hours went by, and suddenly, I had this:



When I saw it, I died. There it was... the Chris Shaylor designed Harry head, moving around. This guy was pretty good. Then, before I knew what had happened, Cartuna sent this one:



Originally, it remained thin, but I told him that at the very last, I should revert to my natural obese state. And pretty quickly, I got just that. I asked him what the hell he did for a living, and it turned out that Cartuna had done animation on LUCKY CHARMS commercials, HONEY NUT BEE commercials, TRIX commercials and MR CLEAN ads as well. This is when I flipped formally. That's way fucking cool. The next morning I wake up to two more heads...





This is when I decided to ask for a special animated Harry head, one... that I have already, but I want to debut with the appropriate and hopefully mega cool video footage I'll have for Thursday (If all goes as planned). And folks... this one is soooooo damn fine, It made me almost cry it was so cool. You'll see. Anyway, I asked this Cartuna if it would be ok if I wrote something about him and his genius on the site... because I've been getting lots of questions about the Heads. And he told me he had a Flash Animation site that he wants to get off the ground called 3plyTheatre.Com and folks... I found this one cartoon he did there called HEADS, I WIN...TAILS, YOU LOSE! that is super damn good. I mean... this thing should be on SPIKE AND MIKE'S SICK AND TWISTED ANIMATION FESTIVAL! It's fantastic.

So... go check him out, and drop him a line by clicking on his name, Cartuna. Hopefully, ol Cartuna will continue doing some groovy Harry heads, and possibly even a Moriarty head as well. I've sent some ideas of my own to him, and feel free to send him yours as well. Personally, I think the guy's a genius. But then... look at the cool shit he's made my head do. That rocks! Also... if you can kick some ass doing animation as well... do something and send it in. Just keep it the right aspect ratio and size format and you'll be doing fine. Thanks!

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