More Oldies From 'The Vault'

Hey all, putting 'Frog Family' up online inspired me to get up some more old animations for the world to see! First, after much begging and pleading from so many people, I have finally put up 'Happiness,' The film that took me over 2 years to make and was my first collaboration with Robert Litton. Its about a small woodland animal that falls in love with a stuffed moose head. It's 13 minutes so it's up in 2 parts.

This is definitely a film where I bit off more than I could chew and you can understand how, after this, I really embraced short shorts like Critter Song, Frog family and Fox & Calf. Below is the 'Making Of' that shows the animation process as well as the scoring by Litton.

Next, a handful of environmental commercials I did for the cities of Vacaville and Rohnert Park between 2002 and 2005. You can see we are trying very hard to make recycling sound interesting enough to get the point across in 30 seconds. These all feature Rob Broadhurst very prominantly doing his voice work.

Hope you enjoyed those. That's it for now, should have more up soon, will try to be better at posting from now on.

Watch "Frog Family"

Okay, so as some of you may recall on this blog, I recorded the entire process (from pre-production through animation) of making "Frog Family" back in February of 2007. Then I never mentioned it again. Well, the truth is it was a concept that was floating in my head for maybe 3 years, but I never really thought I would make it due to the fact that it was a little darker than most of the material I made. But it ate at me over the years, and finally, for my own self-gratification and satisfaction I made it. It was good to get it off my chest. But it was only for me so I never really showed it to anyone (Never entered it into a festival or uploaded it online). So it's been two and a half years now and I figure, what the heck, its a minute and a half of animation I did (some difficult dialogue stuff that I'm proud of), so why not put it up. Enjoy!

Rocker Character

This is a character I did for an L.A. No Name T-shirt but they ended up going with Spike. Thought I'd share him cause I really like him. You can click on the image to make it bigger.

All Up In Nature, Searching For Inspiration

Yesterday Bre and I went for a 15 mile bike ride through Shark Valley in the everglades and had a BLAST. It was full of wildlife, and was a great chance for us to try out our new Nikon camera. We probably saw 200 alligators, most of whom were sun bathing right up on the bike trail. it was a fantastically inspiring day and I think all artists and nature lovers should make it out here!

Here are some babies we found, their mother was near-by so we needed to be really careful.....

There's some gators up ahead on the trail........

We went on a little walking trail which was cut short when we discovered these two blocking our path.........

View from the observation tower..........