Commercials!?!?

Hey, it's been a while. Here's two commercials I animated on recently.

Orbit Gum - "Clean it Up"


The above Orbit commercial was directed by Ace Norton. The drawings in the video were done by GOON.

Other animators were: Musa Brooker, Sihanouk Mariona, Alex Kamer, Celeste Leipham, Nancy Parczyk, Melissa Goodwin.

Bonnaroo 2010


I animated this Bonnaroo promo. It was fun... and fast paced! I didn't do the swirly logo / picture thingies. This was made at Shadow Machine. Click on the videos to go to their respective pages and see em' full size!

Well, more cooler stuff coming up next time... secret puppets from the world of television.

3 - word movie review:
Where the Wild Things Are
DREARY, DISMAL, DEPRESSING

A Comic

Or something like that?


Also, this guy named John Ikuma has started publishing an online stop motion magazine that has some great interviews and such with talented folks. If you have any interest in stop motion, I recommend it.

Also, my girlfriend Winona Regan put a trailer up online for her fantastic film "Haunted Heart". It was traditionally hand animated and painted on cels. I did the soundtrack to it.

Have a sweaty swell time.

3 - word movie review:
District 9
REALLY WELL DONE

Japanese Kobe Toys

Here's some funny Japanese toys I recently stumbled across on ebay. Supposedly they are called "Kobe" or "Kobi" toys.






I think I literally jumped a little bit in shock when I saw that they're facial features pop out like that. Weird!

Here's one called "Teddy the Artist". He actually draws... Looks like you put a stencil in the bottom, and he draws it on the top? Sounds like fun.




3 - word movie review:
Bucket of Blood (1959)
CLEVER, FUNNY, PERCEPTIVE

Empire Muggs Back Taun Taun!

Hello. I recently got to participate in something pretty cool... Lucasfilm decided to do an online auction for charity, in which they chose a large handful of artists to modify these vinyl toys called "mighty muggs" into an interpretation of any star wars character of their choice. They call it "The Empire Muggs Back".

Luckily this happened while I was recently working at Shadow Machine animation, animating on their new show "Titan Maximum", because Lucasfilm asked a bunch of people from Shadow Machine to participate. Good timing!

I decided to go with a character from one of the most memorable shots in the whole series for me. I made the Taun Taun that Han Solo slices open, to warm Luke with it's steamy innards.






Here's a little guy, scared at the sight. Not sure who he's supposed to be actually... sort of like a Han/Luke hybrid../?



So it's up for auction for about seven more days... here's the link to mine directly, if you want to bid on it or something, eh? It's doing well so far, hopefully it'll raise a bunch of money, which will go to the Make - A - Wish foundation. Check out the other ones too, these artists did some pretty amazing stuff.

Oh yes, and soon I will have an artist profile / interview on starwars.com. I will edit this post with a link when that goes up. Horray for helping, yeeeeah!

3 - word movie review:
Hausu
PRE - ULTRAMODERN, STUNTASTIC, OTHERWORLDLY

Animation Show and Flapjack

Hello, it's been a while. You look different. But then again... don't we all? Deep. That's how I am. Deep.

In other news, I recently worked on a few storyboards for a great cartoon show "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack". It's one of my favorite cartoons on TV right now, so it was a fun experience. Here's a story idea drawing I did one day. The idea didn't really make it into the show, so I assume it's ok if I post it here.


Cave!

Also, I was recently interviewed for "The Animation Show" website. I freaking love the animation show (A collection of animation that tours the country every few years), so this was cool, too! You can go read it and make fun of me for sounding like a dork later...

And finally, no, I did not receive one of the top 3 prizes for the student academy award. Had to throw that in here. But it was still an amazing feeling to be nominated!

Here's links to the ones that won, if you want to check em' out:
1 - Pajamas Gladiator
2 - Sebastian's Voodoo
3 - Kites

Enjoy (?)

3-word movie review:
Drag me to Hell
FANTASTIC, RELENTLESS, RECTIFYING

Student Academy Award!!!

Hello. Amazing News! My film "I Live in the Woods" has been nominated for a student academy award! I am amazed, and still a little shocked.

Also, I designed a new poster for my film. This one is more interesting than the last, which was just a still from the film. I wanted to take these things I like about interesting poster design and apply them to my own. Anyways.... here yeh go. Click to make it bigger.



3 - word movie review
Smiley Face
EXPERIENCED, HILARIOUS, SURPRISING

3 x 5 drawin's and such

I haven't posted my own art in a while... I'm working on the cartoon show "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" right now as a storyboard artist, and these are some doodles I did yesterday in my spare time. My friend and fellow storyboard artist Somvilay Xayaphone introduced me to these brush pens which are very nice. I did these on 3x5 notecards with that pen, except for the last drawing... that one's bigger. Anyways... whoah!








3 - word movie review:
Repo: The Genetic Opera
UNIQUE, CLAMOROUS, CONFUSING