Andrew Kepple

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Andrew Kepple (born December 18 1979), also known on the Internet as Too Much Spare Time or simply TmsT and sometimes King Sluggy, is an animator and cartoonist from New Zealand. He had his start as a webcomic artist, and after making some animated GIFs, started making cartoons from Macromedia Flash. He still creates some webcomics today, and is in his 2nd year of study at Freelance Animation School. His first Macromedia cartoon was called Bedtime Stories with Alan Rickman [link], made during the earliest weeks of his experience with Flash animating. Many of his works today can be seen on Newgrounds. Much of his works also achieved widespread success on Albino Blacksheep, especially animutations like French Erotic Film.

Contents

1 Kepple and Animutations
2 Lemon Demon Music Videos
3 Other Projects
4 External links

Kepple and Animutations

Kepple was a prominent figure in regards to animutations, a genre popularized by Neil Cicierega. Perhaps his best known animutation is [French Erotic Film], which has nothing to do with French pornography, but played with Dutch music (Opblaaskrokodil by Ome Henk) done with mondegreened lyrics, thus the name. It later spun off to a trilogy where Colin Mochrie embarks on a quest to defeat the evil plastic Jesus. The other two episodes were [Plan 9 from Underpants] (to the tune of De Kabouterdans from Kabouter Plop) and [Conquest of Animutopia] (to the tune of Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis). One year later, Kepple released a tribute, [French Erotic Birthday].

Kepple also made a tribute cartoon to animutation itself, called [Hyakugojyuuichi Forever!!], played to the tune of Lemon Demon's [[WikiLemon:Hyakugojyuuichi 2003|Hyakugojyuuichi 2003]]. He was also involved in a few scenes from the [Fingertips Collaboration]. Semi-animutational projects like [The Truth About Spongebob Squarepants], [Dopefission] and [Stephen Hawking: The Musical Tribute] are other examples of his animation style.

Lemon Demon Music Videos

Kepple often works alongside Lemon Demon and has animated music videos for several of his songs. These include [I've Got Some Falling to Do], [When Robots Attack], [Geeks in Love], and more recently, [Fiberglass Monkey].

The videos have had reasonable success on Newgrounds, with the exception of I've Got Some Falling To Do, which was never posted there. It is, however, listed on Albino Blacksheep as one of the favorite music videos.

He is occasionally confused (especially on Newgrounds) with Shawn Vulliez, AKA AltF4, the creator of some other Lemon Demon music videos, most notably The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

Other Projects

[Frosty vs. Rudolf]: Frosty the Snowman and Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer battle to the death over who is Santa's sidekick, until the one TRUE Christmas Mascot claims its victory.
[Ignatius vs. Dodgy]: A conceptually similar cartoon to Frosty vs. Rudolf, it featured two university mascots battling each other around photographic backdrops of the University of Canterbury until their showdown is broken up by a well-known security guard at the university. Naturally, the only thing left to do then was to spontaneously break into a promotional song for the University of Canterbury Students' Association (UCSA), to the tune of the Village People's YMCA.
[Only Superhuman]: God created man, but was not happy about it because they spent all their time killing each other. He tried plague, pestilence, and even a meteor to destroy Earth. Each time, mankind figured out a way to save itself from God's attempts at Doomsday. As the rivalry grew between God and His creations, mankind began to spend less time killing itself and learned to pull together and overcome the wrath of their Creator instead. The inevitable conclusion and moral of the story can be found in the animation itself, in a poignant yet cheeky reminder of humanity's relationship with deities.
Up Skit Creek [I] and [II]: Collections of skits written and animated by TmsT. The second of which featured voices from various people, many of them animutation figures, including Neil Cicierega and his sister Emmy. Volume III is scheduled for December 2006.
* One scene from each of the Up Skit Creek cartoons is now featured on Albino Blacksheep as a two-part political satire. It is called [Legos 9-11]. TmsT then released Up Skit Creek for ABS on May 16, and Up Skit Creek 2 one week later.
[Zero Wing Rhapsody]: This cartoon combines the All Your Base fad with Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Perhaps the highest ranking TmsT animation on Newgrounds, and potentially the most views of any of his works as well.
[StrifeToons]: A series about computer game characters from the era of shareware, such as Duke Nukem, the Space Marine from Doom, and Commander Keen, and their adventures in the city of Strifedale. The animated series is based on the web comic called This Strife or more recently [Strife Strips] by Peter Bridger.

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