March 5, 2012
A shot from Wild Life, a short film by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby Oscar nominated "Wild Life" by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby. Always a Fan of Wendy Tilby’s Work Every year I always seem to zero in...
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I want to Brag about a Student of Mine… Winter 2012 Class II student Laura Wood emerged as one of my “Stars” with her animated series “Holy Terror” about a rebellious girl named Cecilia at a Catholic...
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Don Hertzfeld- ” Ah,l’amour” 1995 Breaking In I was going through some old books of mine while preparing for my new class, and came across an interview with one of my favorite indie filmmakers Don...
View ArticleJune 25, 2012
Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead Feature We added a short from “The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead” to KaboingTV last year and that’s when I really got into Elliot...
View ArticleAugust 13, 2012
John K. and His Kickstarter Project I want to send out a big huge congratulations to John K. for meeting his Kickstarter goal to make his cartoon short “Cans Without Labels”. It’s really showing the...
View ArticleSeptember 28, 2012
Congratulations to J.G. Quintel for winning an Emmy last week for his “Regular Show” that airs on Cartoon Network. I hired J.G. out of Cal Arts for Camp Lazlo, and he quickly moved up from assistant to...
View ArticleOctober 8, 2012
In the green room before going on stage. Doug Lawrence (Filburt) Carlos Alazraqui ( Rocko) Me, Tom Kenny ( Heffer) and Charlie Adler ( The Bigheads) First time we had all been together since...
View ArticleNovember 19, 2012
I’ve always been a fan of Javier Mariscal of Spain. I’ve followed his brilliant outpourings of character and design since the 90′s. I always knew he wanted to get into animation, and he had a TV...
View ArticleDecember 11, 2012
The Best Animated Film of the Year I read this recent piece in Slate about one of my favorite filmmakers, Don Hertzfeldt, and his latest film , the third installment of “It’s Such a Beautiful Day”. It...
View ArticleJune 11, 2013
Danny Antonucci ( Lupo the Butcher, Ed, Edd and Eddy) gave me a great interview for my animation class, and I wanted to share his “4 C’s of Great Cartoons”. I wholeheartedly agree, and look at Danny...
View ArticleJanuary 12, 2014
A Proud Teacher I’m proud to say that one of my students from my 2011 Master class ( That the lectures I have available right now here) had his show picked up by Nickelodeon and it’s making it’s debut...
View ArticleJanuary 22, 2014
Huffington Post did a feature on me today. If you would like to check it out, its here.
View ArticleJune 2, 2014
A New Animated Trend? I recently caught two documentaries on netflix which also have a strange trend to them. One was on title sequence artist Pablo Ferro ( Stop Making Sense, Dr. Stranglove) and the...
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For No Good Reason Yes, I was into Hunter S. Thompson, and the twisted drawings of Ralph Steadman. I wanted to be both. Possibly writing like Thompson and illustrating my own articles with the genius...
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Peter Hannan ( Cat Dog) and my story editor bought me an Elliot Cowan print for my birthday, and it arrived the other day. it’s awesome. If you haven’t checked out Elliot’s work, you need to :...
View ArticleWe Will Miss You Keith!
Keith Silva and I going over the animatic for the opening titles of Luna Sometimes you get a chance to really watch creativity blossom in someone. I’ve had the good fortune of watching it a few times....
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