Some new news, and some old news

Hey everybody!

Updates to this site may be far and few between but we assure you that we have indeed been working hard.

This has already been announced elsewhere but we’re proud to officially announce the completion of our second short film, Entropy. We have been submitting it to film festivals and will let you know if we have any luck with that. We’ve also updated the Entropy section of the website with a couple of new screenshots and new versions of the old ones, which you can see here. Eventually the film will be made available to purchase in some form or another, more details on that will be posted closer to the time.

We’ve been busy writing the story to our upcoming web series, tentatively titled Caleb’s Trial, for which we’ve started a blog so you can follow the progress of its creation. The development of the series is fairly slow going for the moment but will ramp up quite a bit when we get into designing the characters and environments. So the blog probably won’t be updated too often for the first few months, but it should get more interesting later on.

Last but not least, we released the Ectype’s End soundtrack (along with a brand new bonus track) which you can find here. Sometime soon we’ll also make the mp3 of Ode to James available to download as well with a couple of remixes of it.

Dane and Jeremy

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Happy New Year from Ruzu

Hey guys,

Over the last month or so we’ve had some great exposure for Ectype’s End and Rhubarb Zoo. We’ve been featured on Channel Frederator’s Christmas blog (go check it out!) and have recieved a trillion lovely comments on our Rhubarb Zoo DeviantArt Page (largely due to Ectype’s End being featured as a Daily Deviation).

So to everyone that has discovered us or spread the word over the last wee while we want to send a ridiculously huge thanks your way, with hugs and kisses an optional extra. We hope you have a fantastic new year and are ready for what we’re cooking up for 2008!

J and Dane

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It’s on, somewhat like Donkey Kong

Good evening friends.

The gears of the small yet imposing juggernaught that is Rhubarb Zoo are slowly grinding. I don’t doubt you’ve noticed the shiny new Ruzu page - and if you’re fresh I’ll extend a warm and hearty handshake to accompany the welcome above. We’re getting very close to finishing our second short film - it’s classically animated through and through and is looking pretty pretty in HD format if I may say so myself - check out the Entropy page here for a taste of what’s to come.

We’re actually quite friendly people despite what you might already assume - we’d love to hear what you think of our short film Ectype’s End and your thoughts on animation or other (more potentially bizarre) subjects in our fledgeling forum.

If you live in New Zealand and spend money on magazines its likely you’ll have heard of the bi-monthly publication Idealog. We’ve been featured in the newest magazine under the title ‘Not For Kids’ (specifically to draw attention to how hardcore we are). If you find yourself lost and lonely in a bookstore pick it up for a flick-through and imagine a warm Ruzu embrace as you read it. This issue won’t be hard to find - it’s has an impossibly orange cover and the words ‘billion’ ‘poverty’ and ‘trillion’ on the front.

We’re ridiculously excited about our plans for next year - all will be revealed in the coming months but suffice to say that we’re planning something no mortal or sane man would dare attempt. Women might; I’m not all that sure about them yet.

Well, we hope you enjoy Ectype’s End and browsing the site. We appreciate any feedback, encouraging or degrading, in the comments below or the aforementioned forum. Thanks for stopping by!

J and Dane

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