Hi everyone. If you missed the symphony performance of "Bigfoot's Eulogy," here's what it looked like (minus the blur).

It sounded great! Congrats to composer Jaebon Hwang and to conductor Guerguan Tsenov. They had their work cut out for them and the show was amazing.

It other news . . . rough animation on Chicken Cowboy is done! The year is flying by so quickly it makes me want to cry:

Next up are some heavy animation revisions and post work. And lots of rendering.

It's sort of intereting to see what's changed from the initial concept drawings. These were done about a year and a half ago. Chicken Cowboy is a little slimmer and slightly streamlined. But I think I've stuck to my initial ideas and story concepts, who this guy is and how he changes.


I have some exciting news about Shark Suit. But I'll wait. Don't want to use up all my blogging ammo.

Hi everyone. The big news on Tuesday is sort of old news--Bigfoot news. My sophomore film, Bigfoot's Eulogy, is being screened with a new score written by Jaebon Hwang. The cool part is, Bigfoot gets screened with a live, 70-piece symphony orchestra playing that new score. And they play it live with the dialogue and sound effects, too.

If anyone's interested, here's the flyer:


Should be fun. And if you don't go to see mine, you should go to see films by my pals Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Jenn Tippins.

The best reason to go is that my dad will be there. Who wouldn't want to meet Dennis? Here are some stills from Bigfoot:





Not to leave out chicken cowboy, here's a still:


Hard to believe it, but I'm 4 shots away from being completely done with the first pass of animation. It's looking closer and closer to 6 minutes these days. Been a long two months, but hopefully I can take the next couple to just revise, mix, edit, and give everything a nice shine.

I ended up spending the better part of my day (and much longer than I wanted) going through and organizing files from my sophomore film, "Bigfoot's Eulogy." Looking back at the storyboards, it's pretty fantastic/depressing how far I've come in two years.

The only thing worth showing is this short alternate death scene for Bill the Bigfoot. Maybe it's only funny to me because I forgot about it.



Probably the most noble way a bigfoot could die. In the end I opted for the freak shampoo testing accident (off screen).

Been saying for a long time that I would put my sophomore film, "bigfoot's eulogy" on utube. Here it is.



The compression's not hot and the animation's looking a little rough around the edges these days. But the story's there, which is the really fun part for me. It was also fun putting my pets and grandma's fur coats on the ol' flatbed scanner.

Hey dudes. More posts are on the way. I've been in LA for the week, where "bigfoot's eulogy" was screened at the director's guild of america alongside some amazing nyu shorts. Fun times.

But I lost my paint set that I've had for about 6 years now. It's a small and white plastic, winsor newton watercolor tray with lid. If anyone can find it for me in LA, I'll gladly pay any reward or ransom.

At least I didn't lose my sketchbook along with the paints, I guess.

Hey! I'm rendering Shark Suit. This is my first film in HD and I seem to be encountering every problem unknown to man. My strategy--if a render fails on one computer, use a different computer. It's working so far.

In other news, Bigfoot's Eulogy is screening tonight at NYU's First Run Film Festival. 6:30 pm at Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street.

Anyhow, here's some bigfoot stuff. You'll notice "stephenneary.com" at the bottom of the card, which I am constantly putting off updating because I've been so busy. Maybe sometime this week.


I'll repost this shark suit thing, too.

I'm rendering out and tweaking shots on shark suit, so it's tons of waiting around at the lab. I've got some time to update.

First off, some pictures from bigfoot's trip to LA.





A big fountain at the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Foundation.

And the theater. It's the nicest theater my work will ever be shown at. Very comfy chairs.

There's the voice of my pal Alex Lee up on the screen. And the back of someone's head.


Lastly, here are some pictures I did for Liz Toonkel's advanced film, Fashion Kills. She's shooting it all right now (on super 8, how cool is that?)

Hi everyone,
It's been awhile. I've been very busy finishing shark suit. Only one and a half weeks left, and it's just about finished. All the animation is done, but it still needs to be tweaked in spots. So I've got a tight week for some hd rendering and sound design. yikes. Luckily, the nick jr show I work on, wonder pets!, takes a two week break starting next week. Not a moment too soon.

I also went to LA this past weekend for the college TV awards. Bigfoot's Eulogy took home 2nd place in non-traditional animation. It was also named "festival favorite" at the collge TV awards festival. Hopefully I can make it back for shark suit and my film after that.

It was a cool trip. I got to catch up on sleep. I'll post some event pictures when I get a second.

Here's a still from shark suit.

bigfoot. www.animationblock.com

unrelated:
and that the best test of endurance is just to persist, or rather to insist from day to day, in believing that it is possible to run down an antelope, and that it must be done, and that I am the one who must do it.
-scott carrier

Here are some stills from a film I made last year, "Bigfoot's Eulogy"