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Back to the Drawing Board
ShareA film will generally work if there is a philosophy behind. If there’s a set ideas which define the approach. If the execution of those ideas corroborates the surface content. I’m generally looking for methods of creating tactile work without … Continue reading
Olympic Images
ShareWay back in 2008, we produced a series of web bits for Comedy Central at Asterisk with Steve Kerper. They were fairly simple, no animation to speak of, but very nice drawings by ZEES and great voice work from Dr. … Continue reading
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Tagged atom films, comedy central, history, illustration, olympics, steve kerper
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Yomo Toro Sounds
ShareOne of my favorite projects from the Asterisk days is this short film we did for Nickelodeon. The film is the largely the work of Matthew Stoddart who conceived it, storyboarded and designed it. He also made the single most … Continue reading
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Tagged matthew stoddart, nickeldeon, obituary, origami, yomo toro
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Happy Returns
ShareAn Independence Day promise to send last year’s Christmas “card” prompted me to rustle up the returns. After diligent cross checking of the mailing list there weren’t too many. We made a film and used a piece of original production … Continue reading
Monday Morning Pitch Trailer
ShareA few years back we developed and produced a pilot for Cartoon Network. The production was fairly compressed (after a long time waiting for lawyers). In some ways we made the mistake of not “pushing back” and insisting on a … Continue reading
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Further Testing
ShareStarting to get somewhere with the first of (probably) eight Ottawa Signal films. Did an animation test based on a painted model. This (above) is basically one part of a motion/production experiment. It would represent one “layer” of activity. Something … Continue reading
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Little Help?
ShareAs previously mentioned, we’re doing the signal films for this year’s Ottawa Animation Festival. Like most of our projects we’re making it both simpler and far more complicated than it needs to be. There will be several episodes. In one, … Continue reading
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Commercial Break
ShareHere’s an ad we just finished for Web.com. Turns out we’re already a client (they purchased Register.com a little while back and they’re our web registry). Fly Communications was the agency. They were great to work with. Very open to … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, work
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Space Models
ShareThese are the design sheets for a few bits of animation we did for WGBH’s Nova Science:NOW. Above are the first drawings we presented. Turns out they wanted him to look more like the segment’s host. That was pretty easy. … Continue reading
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Another Programming Alert
ShareNOVA was always a favorite show of mine as a kid. There was something powerful in its presentation of knowledge -like “National Geographic”, as well. The universe contains these amazing things, and here they are, on display for you to … Continue reading
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