hello neglected blogspot. i've been busy! doing lots of traveling with blue sky, speaking about story stuff. I headed to BYU, and last week, San Jose State:

(dang look at all those people)

for most of my talks I show lots of different iterations of the same scene as I'm given notes week by week. it's fun pitching old boards. you look at stuff you had forgotten you ever drew. and sometimes you see stuff you wish you had forgotten--bad drawings, dumb ideas, and things that just completely missed the mark. it's a learning process for myself just as much as students (hopefully).

enough chat. here are some sketchbook pages

dolphin party

And a huge thanks this past week to the Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico--Dr Breakfast won Best Animation! Cool!

here are some sketchbook pages!


I really hope someone sees this "stargate brooklyn" idea here and runs with it. My gift to you!




Dr Breakfast is official selection for the New York International Children's Film Festival going on right now! Also check Dr B out at the Florida Film Festival April 13-22, and the Dallas International Film Festival April 12-22! And big thanks to Vimeo for including dr breakfast in their program, Best of Vimeo Shorts: Drawing Inspiration at this years SXSW!

i've been getting lotso quetions about how i made dr breakfast since posting it, so here's a brief making of video.

oh and the original for ref I guess

sundance is over. everyone get back to work!

Here's a little blurb about dr B in the hollywood reporter. And you can see my last thingy for the huffington post here.


My mom called channel frederator and left this message. Dr Breakfast played on their youtube channel last week. Thanks frederator!



And thanks mom! My mom leaves some good messages. Except when they're sad. Like this one that I animated about three years ago.


bye mickey...

I've been out at sundance this week. It's been awesome. saw some really great shorts by don hertzfeldt, julia pott, kangmin kim, & others. and features! and things!

in lieu of drawings, here are some random pictures from park city.

if you run outta town for awhile to the middle of nowhere, you'll see this


this snowman and I flew around the world one evening.

clips of dr breakfast played at a bowling alley? check that off my bucket list.

ok. back to new york soon. and reality.

oh cripes has it been busy. lots of stuff to get ready for sundance, and the top-secret project at work that I'll hopefully get to show people someday.

Here's a new poster for dr breakfast. Do you want your own dr breakfast poster? It's OK to say no.

I started writing for this blog on the huffington post called the sundance diaries. It went up today, but I should be updating until the fest is over at the end of the month. The other short filmmakers have some great stuff to say. But you don't have to take my word for it.

hi everyone. it's been a crazy couple weeks with work, travel, holidays, and commuting. and there's this thing--this is new. . .

really excited to go to park city in January!

and a huge thank you to the crew--sound designer Robin Arnott does some insane stuff--try watching with your eyes closed. And Nick Koenig's music is awesome. And we had the perfect deer, Chris Siemasko and Vadim Bazhanov.

I was going through some old, embarrassing sketchbooks and I found my first ever dr breakfast ideas. They're a lot older than I thought they were--drawn 7 years ago, right after I graduated high school.


I guess it all started with bread. Hmm. Anyhow, pretty weird how ideas come back, or maybe they never leave. Just mutate a little. Eventually, the scene became this.

dr breakfast online!!!

it's been done for months, but it's finally time to put the dumb thing online.



Had some great screenings at Austin Film Festival and AFI Fest--so I finally decided to just let the world see it rather than keep it offline for the festivals. Still more festivals to come, however.

I had a great time making Dr Breakfast. I have a pretty long commute, and it's great for animating films. Metro-North even has electrical outlets in cars, so you can plug in your lightbox. I even brought my scanner along a couple trips. Word of warning though--animating in public is one of the best ways to court ridicule.

Overall, making a film is a great break from working on films every day. stills & full credits below!









written, directed, animated by
stephen p neary

sound design, mix
robin arnott

music
nick koenig

additional foley
giggles

deer 1 chris siemasko
deer 2 vadim bazhanov
pj man stephen neary
dr breakfast sean stogner
capt ahab robin arnott

additional animation
connie li chan

voice recording
tim nordquist
justine warwick

produced by
stephen p neary

with giant thanks to mrs lugo's 3rd grade elementary class!

yeah dr breakfast plays at AFI Fest in LA nov 8 & 9!

hello!

Going to the austin film festival next week for the premiere of dr breakfast! I'm psyched to see some Lasseter and michael arndt panels out there too. cause I'm a nerd.

I found this photo from awhile back of all the dr b backgrounds:

send me your address and I will ship one your way.

I'm also going to be at CTN expo in LA this november. I'll be selling some art. I'm also selling vegetarian sandwiches. there's never good food at those things. Do you have a favorite sandwich?

I've been super busy with this new project at work. But it's pretty cool. It's a secret.

bye!

dr breakfast sneak peek!

Dr Breakfast will have its first public screening at the Katonah Museum of Art, on Thursday, July 21, as part of Surrealist Outdoor Cinema. Many thanks to Andy Keir for curating the rad collection of films. Watching movies outside is always a real treat, especially in friendly weather and fine company. Doors open at 8:00pm.

"hooray!"

Dr Breakfast will screen in front of one of my all-time favorite movies, Being John Malkovich. It's one of those rare, brilliant movies that I find endlessly watchable.

so yeah, hop on Metro North and check it out! It's only an hour from grand central, and the fresh air will do us city folk some good.

here's the dr breakfast trailer:



So yeah, hopefully that leaves more questions than answers.

Blue Sky has a new exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, with tons of production work from ice age and other movies. In studio the story department has a huge wall of caricatures, so they borrowed some for the show--Here's a sketch I did of patrick harpin that's in the exhibit:

and . . . you can finally watch chicken cowboy on vimeo. quality is a lil better.

it's all done. Finished. stay tuned for screening info and eventual internet launch...

Robin Arnott did an amazing job with the sound design--we had an epic mix session at his studio in Austin a couple weeks ago. Nick Koenig lends a really awesome score. I'd say that old hat about sound being half the film, but I think in this case, the sound makes the film. check their stuffs out.

I'd like to post more how-to type stuff in the coming weeks. but here are a few stills for now.

time to catch the bus!

here's an animation test from dr breakfast. trying to finalize all the specifics.

dr breakfast animation test from pizzaforeveryone on Vimeo.

I finally threw away my giant ear. After four apartments in four years, it was just time to say goodbye.

if you're looking for a giant nose, i've got one of those too.

if you're looking for a screening to attend, the New York International Children's Film Festival will be screening Let's Make Out at 6pm on Saturday. It's in a block called For Teens & Adults Only (that way it won't give the younger kids any ideas).

dr breakfast is finally animated! I'll be working on post production stuff and making little tweaks in the next month.

seems like ages since I doodled the first ideas during class--at one point I almost made this as my senior thesis instead of chicken cowboy . The story has changed a lot along the way. Most of all I wanted to do something different.

It's really hard to make shorts with a full time job. I never expected that when i started at blue sky fresh outta school. Seems like balancing everything is harder than the actual work. But I love making films.

more stills:

done . . . soon . . . ish

here's some more dr breakfast work. i wanted to do more traditional animation for some sections. but everything starts with the boards:

from here i trace onto paper for layouts.

and here's the animation. try to stick to very limited cycles, or else i will be working on this cartoon forever. and it already feels like forever.

color with shape layers in after effects.

add watercolor background. probably won't do this for everything.

final animation below