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READ MORENow live on the internet is RECYCLE ME, a 30 second spot for North Country Recycles. Matthew White of 4th Coast Productions hired John Vincent and me to design the puppets and shoot stop motion, with Aaron Powell of Luna Digital handling the lip sync, CG staging, and compositing. Watch the commercial below: When Matt […]
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READ MOREEvery week on This Week in Google, Stacey Higginbotham wishes she had a “Punch Leo” button to wallop Leo Laporte for some ill-advised comment. After hearing it said a dozen times, I decided to make it happen. Here’s the cartoon I produced using traditional hand-drawn animation. Edited to add: Well, this is cool! Hosts Leo […]
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READ MOREWhat is Your Face? It’s an Academy Award nominated short by animator Bill Plympton, one of my heroes. What’s a global jam? It’s when a boatload of animators disassemble a film and redo sections of it in their style. So when I heard Ken Mora and Mike Schneider were doing a global jam for “Your […]
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READ MOREThe Rubber Onion Podcast is a weekly show hosted by animators Stephen Brooks and Rob Yulfo. I happened upon the show early this year when they did a crossover with another favorite show of mine, Animation Ninja. Each month, Brooks puts a call out for 15 second short entries in the “Rubber Onion Battle” on […]
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READ MOREToday’s Google Doodle is a salute to Lotte Reiniger, pioneer of silhouette animation. The animator of the doodle actually built a multi-plane camera! Ten years ago, I produced an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Other Gods, done in a style inspired by Lotte Reiniger. I actually have been working on an HD version, which will […]
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READ MOREFor this year’s Mind 2 Movie Challenge, a few of us RMM board members decided to make shorties that would not be judged, just for fun. The challenge was to include the following: A character named Bruce or Bryce Lemon, who has a secret. A clock. The line “This has never happened before.” Then pick […]
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READ MOREDogtown is the best hot dog place in Rochester, and I’m not just saying that because my friend Chris Nakis is co-owner! Chris is also a producer, and he’s currently doing a documentary about his two main interests: photography and bow-hunting. They have more in common than you’d think! For the doc, which also touches […]
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READ MOREHere’s a little something I did for Red Shirt Pictures’ documentary on the making of Army of Darkness, out now on Blu-Ray from Shout! Factory. Working on this was a real honor. The Evil Dead films were hugely influential on me, helping to define what I loved about horror and humor, and then influencing me […]
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READ MOREOne of the challenges in our field is discussing the different styles of animation with prospective clients. When someone asks “how much does animation cost” it can depend on the type of animation. Hand-drawn, realistic, limited, even CG or clay all have different considerations. What better way to explain it than in animation? We at Animatus […]
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READ MOREHere’s my latest reel of animation work, including clips from the documentary That Guy Dick Miller and the opening titles from TV show The Right Stuff. Also some character designs and magic burros from the feature 3.14… and much much more!
