Browsing “Animation”

I would like to cordially invite you to view my new animation reel JUST posted HERE.

Please tell the creative teenagers in your life that there is a sssecret sesssion awaiting them in sssouthern California this sssummer.  It is known as CSSSA or The California State Summer School for the Arts.  Students from all over California, the USA, and the world come together for a month of intensive focus in the following disciplines: Animation, Creative Writing, Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts.  This experience will change their life.  It really will!  The application deadline is coming up in February so if you know any high school students that might be psyched on this opportunity please point them to www.csssa.org so they can start getting their application materials together.  This will be my 9th summer working at CSSSA and I absolutely love being a part of it because the students come away from the experience with an exploding energy for their craft, a new found confidence in their own voice and an impressive portfolio.  It is not a summer camp.  The students have to work hard and can even earn college credits.  I direct the Animation Dept. at CSSSA and would be happy to answer any questions for you and yours.  Please help the teenagers in your life find out about this rare opportunity.  It is largely state funded and who knows how much longer it will survive the treacherous California State Budget!  There are tremendous scholarships available for California residents so please encourage the CA students you know to apply even if they don’t know if their families could afford to send them.  Here are some photos from the animation dept. last year that might give a sense of what it’s like… Goodtimes!
Thanks for helping get the word out!

Beautiful Losers on Netflix

Looking to update your movie list on Netflix ? Add Beautiful Losers. I did the Cinematography.

A few months ago I curated a Faesthetic show with Scion at their Culver City gallery. Here’s a recap video… I’m really proud of how this turned out.

Also… starting this week, a “Signature ID” I made for Fuel will begin airing on TV! I’m pretty goddamn excited about this too. I hope you dig it!

My friend Mike Manzoori a new website where you can view his lovely portfolio and also watch the classic Sheep Shoes Life of Leisure video!

I had a conversation today about my previous animation work.  Had me thinking if I could locate these MTV Australia spots online.  It wasn’t a very hard search.  I posted them on youtube this afternoon.  These were produced by Bitt Animation and VFX in 2006.

and just for kicks I figured I would throw in this signature series spot I did for Fuel TV

oh since we are on a animation roll might as well throw this in the mix.

In 2005 my friend Jason MacFarlane directed this video and commissioned me to produce the figures for the video.

Thanks to Bob K for the video posting hint.

Internet Archive

I like this site and trying to get good free royalty free ephemeral films and other stuff like Sid Davis’s Skateboard Sense.

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BIG NEWS

Two of my favorite people, Tiffany Cambell and Andria Lessler, have just finished an amazing new surf movie.  It’s called  “Dear and Yonder: Daring stories of ladies united by the sea”, and it is on tour right now!  Me and Nat Russel worked together to create the title sequence and I did some other little animated tidbits with other people’s artwork.  I haven’t seen the film yet but the trailer is soooooo beautiful.  Have a look. Check out the tour dates, they might be coming to your town!  It will look incredible on the big screen I do declare..  www.villavillacola.com for more details..

Second Attempt at animating.

My friends Matt Watkins and Lucy McLauchlan from Beat 13 made this short film of Lucy’s improvised painting inter-cut with elements of the processes involved. I saw this a couple of weeks back at the Flatpack film festival alongside Beautiful Losers.

The soundtrack was composed, performed and recorded by McLauchlan and Watkins with a circuit bent broken radio and a ‘prepared’ piano in the reception of Birmingham’s Custard Factory.