The Floridian has an interesting profile of Orrin and Jerry Zucker, a couple of indie video producers from Massachusetts that are now up for an Emmy.

They didn’t go to Hollywood. They haven’t been on television. They’re just two funny guys with an idea and a bunch of computers. That’s how the Internet is changing TV.

The Zucker brothers were amusing friends and each other on the Internet with a series of short, animated films based on the weird things that befall Jerry. Then the National Television Academy selected their work, It’s Jerry Time! www.itsjerrytime.com, as one of six nominees for the first Emmy award for programming produced for nontraditional platforms. The category has been dubbed “the iPod Emmy.”

“We’re this weird hybrid between a blog and vlog and a show and a journal,” Orrin Zucker said, slinging around tech terms in a telephone interview from his office outside Boston. “I don’t know what we are.”

If you haven’t seen It’s Jerry Time!, you can check it out at the site, or subscribe with this podcast feed URL:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ItsJerryTime

A new animated film, Renaissance, looks to be visually stunning, based on the preview that has been released, and features a futuristic styling that is part Blade Runner, part Sin City.

Nothing wrong with that in our book….

Check out the preview.