pile of practice figure drawings.

step 1: tear up drawings

2: get plastic bin full of red wigglers

3: place shredded drawings in bin

4: add moldy oldy food

5: let the worms do what they do.

get back to drawing. make more worm food.

what does a foot wear to a bank robbery?

then he puts on his game face.

I got really busy with work, but i will post something soon. something other than me getting distracted while putting on my socks.

Oh yeah! Chicken cowboy is playing at the new york international children's film festival! You can see it march 13, 20, and 21.

If you're in indianapolis this weekend, check out the heartland film festival. You can see chicken cowboy on saturday, tuesday, or wednesday.

I'm excited to have my film play there because I remember attending in high school, before I knew I was going to grow up and do this stuff for a living.

If you're in new york, chicken cowboy is also playing next week at hdfest. it will screen wednesday at 9. both screenings will be in hd, which looks way better than youtube.

i started boarding something. this may look familiar. everybody pester me to finish this thing. I'm going to keep it rough so I probably won't be posting much of the boarding process.

Lately I've been trying to bake bread. the results sometimes reward, sometimes dissapoint. But I like this picture:

I like postcards, so I think I'm going to print a few of these up.

I regret not posting for whale wednesday. a day late, a dollar short:

speaking of whales, my friend barbara made me this awesome birthday cake:

It's really quite something. And I don't know how she managed on the subway from brooklyn. New york is a magical place in the summer.

There's a block in the village under invasion of caterpillars. I see a few every time I pass. Some little kids were playing with them too, and we took this picture. They might be low-level pokémon.

Here's another Dr Breakfast painting I've been working on. I'll post the finished product later.

Oh yeah! Chicken Cowboy won the Audience Award at ABP and the Hoosier-Lens Award at IIFF. Thanks to everyone who saw the film at either festival!

when the world gets you down, bake a pie.

you're probably all pretty sick of the festival news, but here are a few more places you can see Chicken Cowboy:

Animation Block Party, New York City (this weekend)
Trimedia Film Festival, Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado, Sept 11 - 13
Calgary International Film Festival, Sept. 25 - Oct 4

It continues. Here are some stills from the credit sequence. I'm playing with some live action footage, which I may or may not keep in. Maybe it's better if I don't explain what's going on.




The hardest part of this entire project was definitely growing that mustache. It took dedication and a full 22 years of my life. Anyhow, my hope is that this sequence will be funny whether you know me or not. If not funny, at least weird.

I also wanted to plug NYU's First Run Film Festival. "Shark Suit: the Musical" will be screening at Cantor Film Center on 8th Street & 5th avenue on Friday, April 11th at 9pm. It's in a block of cool animated and experimental screenings:

STEPHEN NEARY SHARK SUIT: THE MUSICAL (6 MIN)
CHRISTEN SMITH SALLY TAKES THE LEAD (3 MIN)
JOSH INTRATOR PILOT (2.5 MIN)
GUENEVER GOIK DREAM PUP IN AISLE 4 (1.5 MIN)
DAVID PAGANO LITTLE GUYS! (3 MIN)
JOSE ANDRES CARDONA A PICKLE LIKE YOU MUSIC VIDEO (5.5 MIN)
BENJAMIN NICHOLAS COUPLES (18.5 MIN)
MAX NOVA THE BYSTANDER EFFECT (8 MIN)
BEN BINDRA VERSES (30 MIN)

And as always, here's the Shark Suit trailer:



I'm also excited to see some live-action stuff my friends have been working on. Here's the trailer for Liz Toonkel's "Fashion Kills!" I did some animation for a few scenes and the titles.



I wholeheartedly support anything shot on super 8. It'll be screening at 3:45 on Thursday, April 10th.

Seems like everyone is working hard on a film these days. Here's my pal Harry, unrolling 30 feet of watercolor paper for his current project:

Hi everyone. Here's some more shark suit news.

Shark Suit: the Musical won 1st in animation at the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Foundation's College TV Awards. It also won the Ruckus Pick award. Best of all, it was a good party. And I saw some really remarkable student films.

Here's my favorite pic of the night:

It all made me excited to finally finish Chicken Cowboy. I've been rendering away on most shots. I also got a grant a couple weeks ago, which means I can finally budget in some good sound. Spent a lot of time today in the foley room, breaking glass.

Fun stuff.

This is a pie my mom made that I'm putting in chicken cowboy:

My brother actually made a very similar pie and gave me half yesterday. Blueberry apple. God bless brothers and the pies they bake.

Anyhow, here are some more screen grabs. I think if you just string together all the screenshots I've been posting, you'll see the entire cartoon, fully animated. Nah. Just kidding.




My favorite shot is still the pie one.

my pal Nardeep shot some live action stuff today for chicken cowboy. It was a fun little shoot--a whopping 5 or so shots. They'll be used for a brief intro and at another point in the cartoon.






I think they're going to need a little color correction here and there, but nothing too extreme.

Nardeep also told me he's going to be on dr. phil next thursday. We'll all be watching.

Here's another political post. My friend mike pointed out some similarities between these men and some pop-culture icons.


Huckabee and the dramatic prairie dog. Who woulda thunkit?

Anyhow, here are some quick and long poses.

I found this picture online and I like it.

At harvard they have this program--you can check out works of art for a semester and hang them in your room. My girlfriend got this josef albers print for her wall:

Needless to say, I'm jealous. But someday I'll make my own series of color theory prints. Maybe by the name of, "homage to the squid."

They've got a similar program at oberlin, where my sister rented a renoir sketch for a few months at a reasonable charge of $5. NYU needs to up its game in the artwork rental department.

unicorns. I'll replace these pics with some better scans later. In the meantime, enjoy their majesty.





I live across from a gas station. Took this photo today. Can you tell which car is not like the others?


Seems sort of silly. For all the cost of a lamborghini, I'd want a color that didn't blend in so well.