SuperBattle World Premiere in Savannah!

SuperBattle Episode 1 will have its world premiere this coming Friday, February 5th at the Savannah International Animation Festival! This is a new festival that has been created by animation power couple Hal and Nancy Miles. A great article was written about the new festival on the Connect Savannah website. This looks like it is going to be a great first year for this festival and I am super-excited to be a part of it!

SuperBattle Crew Screening!

We had an awesome little party at Buddy System Studios to premiere SuperBattle Episode 1 for an intimate group of sixty or so crew, friends and supporters of the project. It was amazing to finally watch the episode with an audience and get their reactions afterwards. I got some really positive responses- only complaint, they want to see more! Well, it is just a first episode and I am really hoping a situation will present itself that will allow me to continue with the project.

Quick plug: Mini versions of the poster above are available here!


The little screening room we set up in the shop, with behind the scenes photos looping before the screening.


Posing with an amazing rice krispie treat and white chocolate sculpture of The Chemical Kid that was generously created by John Sumner. Artistic and tasty too!


I set up what remains of the puppets, props and set pieces for people to look at.


A few SuperBattle freebies!

My friends Jenny and Jon showed SuperSupport by coming to the party with a handmade Brawl Magnet magnet helmet! It was a hit!

SuperBattle HD Trailer!

I just posted an HD version of the trailer on YouTube

SuperBattle HD Trailer

SuperBattle Episode 1 is complete!

Wow- it has been a seriously long haul...many years using most of my spare time to bring it to life, and I am very proud to announce that the first episode of SuperBattle is done! I have put together a website to showcase the trailer and give some behind the scenes information.

SuperBattleMovie.com

I am also thrilled that SuperBattle Episode 1 has already been accepted to a couple of the festivals I applied to! Check out the websites for the Savannah International Animation Festival and SFF-rated: Athens International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival for details!

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!!!