Bradly Werley's craft, if this is not too bold a statement, directs the viewer's retrospective to other great creators of strange yet lovable fantastical creatures for the action of video. Jim Henson, Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, and Clive Barker are just some of the few names that his art form brings to mind almost immediately. This young man has followed his childhood inclinations to the point of rabid artistry for the sake of bringing to life the things in life we see no life in. As if that weren't daring enough, he has decided to create stories for them to exist in digital photographic video form. What is there to be said about this channel? Let's see, it doesn't have a lot of videos but it has a LOT in the three videos Bradly Werley has managed to finish and put up on Openfilm. One has to acknowledge that he is extremely talented in a variety of ways, mainly in creating things that wouldn't exist if he wasn't an artist in the world. Thank goodness he has his work here on Openfilm to share with our ever-growing and nurturing community of video artists. The first video he uploaded, "The Incredible Egg Noggins", was but a mere taste of what was to come and then he delivered on what he hoped his channel would do: To bring up emotions in the viewer. I did indeed feel close to them, if not outright empathetic to their existence.

After watching the first video he put up I was convinced that we'd see more of his amazing animations, and I was right. The opening of his first contribution starts off with a series of still pictures of himself with his creations uncannily (or deliberately) resembling a very young and enthusiastic Jim Henson with his own famous collection of puppets. I thought it funny that he was wearing a Blues Brothers shirt that rang their intention, "We're on a mission from God". And much like a God to his Egg Noggins, it follows through to a moment of awakening or consciousness for his intrepid life forms, each with their own world and emotional setting, then leads you into the rest of Bradly's chamber of Egg Noggins. His Egg Noggins (properly and humorously named) appear young and old, weird and seemingly normal for their world with actions reminiscent of animatronics yet with the full possibility of more developed movements. By the end of the video you are left wishing to view the full length movie of his Egg Noggins just as you were after seeing the trailer for Disney's & Pixar Animations Blockbuster Wall-E, despite the fact that they may not be as cute as the little celebrity-status, trash compactor himself.

The second installation on Bradly's channel follows up the first in the same manner but with added sound effects and mouth movements for the Egg Noggins. It's also aptly titled, In the Heart: "The Incredible Egg Noggins" because it is only 24 seconds long but shows you how much he can actually do with them. What's more is he delivers well on his promise, "More Next Time" at the end, with his third follow up video, yet with a new character and story line.

Now we have arrived at his newest series, Whisk: Chapter 1: A Restless Night, a video that promises to be an animation saga anyone with a heart or even a remote love of puppet animation would be willing to follow chapter after chapter. The viewers will find it, watch it, and love it as I did. I'd like to direct you to it this very instant with a brief description: Whisk has never been fully alive, His Mother is taken and Whisk comes to life in order to find his Mother, Brumehilda Meltwater, the 6 year old witch who created him. The journey for Whisk has just begun… and so has ours with this channel.

There is something that, again, tells me that we have not seen the end of Bradly, The Incredible Egg Noggins, or his lovable Whisk. The Whisk saga will optimistically continue to illustrate the immense dedication and talent this young man has to offer our amazing community and hopefully we will all get to see how it is that Whisk is re-united with his witchy little woman. We can't wait Bradly!