Meet the Buddies!

My buds at Buddy System Studios are featured in the new issue of Stop Motion Magazine! As always it is a free PDF download. There are some other really great articles this month as well, including a feature on Director/Animator Barry Purves' latest work!

Stop-Motion Magazine

Editor John Ikuma recently announced the launch of a publication completely devoted to the art of Stop Motion Animation. He hopes to provide readers with up-to-date industry info, interviews with famous and not so famous animators and directors, Movie and T.V. reviews, along with tutorials and articles on everything related to the art form. John has two great issues already done which are free to download as a PDF from Stop-Motion Magazine. The current issue has an informative behind the scenes article on "Titan Maximum" including interviews with representatives from most of the different creative teams.

Buddy System Studios update

In case you haven't checked in awhile, the Buddy System Studios website got a nice face lift, with more improvements coming in the near future! Pop over and check out the updated reel.

Additionally, I am happy to be represented as one of the Buddy System Studios directors at Sugar Rush Media. Terence Liff built Sugar Rush Media on the foundation of satisfying a client's media desires no matter how simple or complex, and I am excited to be a part of what he's got going on!

Titan Maximum - Behind the scenes!

Here's a handful of behind the scenes photos from the pilot episode. Some are pretty blurry- but they will give an idea of what was going on.

TITAN MAXIMUM PREMIERE!

Be sure to watch or DVR the first episode of Titan Maximum this Sunday, Sept. 27th on Adult Swim @ 11:30pm!

Once again- a ton of hard work went into this from the amazing crew at Shadow Machine, and I can't say enough positive stuff about the people I get to work with. As each episode airs I will try and get in the habit of posting some behind the scenes photos and insights, to talk about what went into the show.

Until then, here is a fun interview with Director Chris McKay which gives some insight into the process of making the show. And here is another interview with Chris.

Stop Motion Gold!

Huge congratulations to Elizabeth Harvatine and Joshua Jennings (a.k.a Savelen Forrest) for their recent Emmy wins in the juried category for Individual Achievement in Animation! Liz won for her work on the last season of Moral Orel while Josh took home the prize for his performance on Robot Chicken Star Wars Ep2. Go stop-mo!!!

Titan Maximum shooting wraps!

Adult Swim's latest stop-motion show Titan Maximum has finished shooting for the first season. I served as animation director on this one and had an amazing crew of animators who were a constant source of inspiration. Check out our animation crew photo! Make sure to catch Titan Maximum when it premieres soon on Cartoon Network!

Guitar Hero Spec Ad - Watch it!

Here is the Guitar Hero spec ad I directed and animated. Many thanks to all the talented artists who pitched in to make this look amazing. Extra special love goes out to my buddies at Buddy System Studios who gave me tons of support to create this piece. Please have a look and let me know what you think of it!

Here's a link:

GUITAR HERO SPEC!

And here's YouTube HD:

YouTube Version

Spec Commercial - Shooting is Done!

Just before the Christmas break I managed to get the last shot for my spec commercial in the can. In case you haven't already figured it out from the posts below, this is an idea I came up with for the Nintendo DS version of Guitar Hero. It is a really cool little product, that lets you attach a special controller to the side of your DS so you can rock on the go. I should have all the editing and post work done by the end of January.

Who's this guy?

Here's a frame from the spec commercial I am shooting- I am really enjoying working with this puppet!