more post it post ups.

Here's some screening infor for "Shark Suit: the Musical." It's playing october 16th at HBO at 7:00 pm. If you want to go, e-mail me. Here's the lineup:

Andrew MacLean’s Sikumi (On the Ice)
Stephen Neary’s Shark Suit: The Musical
Lev Polyakov’s Morning, Day, Evening, Night . . . and Morning Again
Doug Schachtel’s High Street Plumbing
Sasie Sealy’s The Elephant Garden

the latest from the world of chicken cowboy. Here's the new short short.



First festival news--Chicken Cowboy will be screening at the New Hampshire Film Festival held October 16-19th. In other news, Shark Suit: the Musical will be screening at HBO on October 16th.

If anybody in Wildwood NJ finds my glasses in a water slide or on a beach, please send them my way.

a scribble I painted on the back of tisch's commencement program.


I found out last week that shark suit won a marion carter green grant from the national board of review of motion pictures. It's enough encouragement for me to get rolling on my next project.

About 10 days ago someone uploaded a copy of shark suit onto yahoo. I'm not really sure why they had a copy or why they uploaded it, but somehow it got 42,000 views. So I decided to start uploading shark suit myself, since I guess people will watch it.

first off, good ol' youtube:


If you'd like to watch in HD, check out shark suit on vimeo:

Shark Suit: the Musical from pizzaforeveryone on Vimeo.

feel free to comment if you hate it, etc.

Great news! Shark Suit: the Musical will be screening this Sunday at the ASIFA East festival!

I'm really looking forward to having my work screened in front of the community I've learned to love and become a part of these past 4 years since moving to New York. It's a huge honor. Plus, there will be free cookies (and other fancy refreshments). And last year nickelodeon gave out frisbees!

It's all FREE. This Sunday at 6pm at New School. Don't even come to see my film, come to see the other awesome films! Like Tim's.

Shark Suit also won Best Animation this past week at the Rincon International Film Festival in Puerto Rico. Believe me, I wish I could have made it to that one...

Hey everyone!

News today is Shark Suit news. "Shark Suit: the Musical" was picked as MTVu's Film of the Week! So if you haven't seen the whole thing, here's the place to do it:

MTVu best film on campus

There's also a cool critic's review you can read/watch:

critic's review here

check it out!

just shark suit

Also, Shark Suit is screening tonight at 9pm at Cantor Film Center on 8th Street. It picked up two awards this year in NYU's First Run Film Festival. One for Achievement in Animation and another award for original score. Props to my music people, Christopher Han and my sis Christin Neary.

the reward for reading through all that boring news is this cartoon! nice and upbeat!

"Well he sure as hell doesn't get it from ME!"

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.

Little Guys™ is on DVD! It's a short from my pal David Pagano animated with legos. Lots of legos. There's cool stuff and an faq up on his website now, and I think you'll be able to order it soon.

http://www.paganomation.com/littleguys/index.html

This is an oldie, but a goodie. Ethan from Shark Suit as one of Pagano's little guys:

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.

Don't worry, "chicken Cowboy" won't be in 3d. But I made this poor sap for stand in and pre visualization purposes on some of the more complicated shots. So he doesn't need to be too beautiful or move with the grace of an olympic ice skater.


I'd like to make a more complicated rig later for some animation tests. Making this guy has been more fun than I thought it would be.

Shark Suit won 2nd place in Collegiate Animation at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Int'l Film Festival. Thanks!

Here's an update on Shark Suit: the Musical.

Shark Suit will be playing at the Big Apple Film Festival here in New York on Nov 17th. If you haven't seen it yet, here's a great chance to see Shark Suit on the big screen. It's in a block of cool films at 12:00pm on Saturday, Nov 17th at Tribeca Cinemas. The webiste is www.bigapplefilmfestival.com. The films are also listed at http://2007baffprogram.withoutabox.com/.

Shark Suit also won Best Animated Film at the Bluegrass Indepent Film Festival. Thanks!

Finally, here's some concept art from about a year ago. Time flies.

Hi everyone.

Nothing much to show. But today at 6:30pm I'll be showing "Shark Suit: the Musical" at After Effects New York. Afterwards I'll talk a little bit about my work flow in after effects. See the trailer here:



Also the amazing Brian Maffit will talk After Effects. And that's going to be pretty awesome.

here's the meeting info, or visit www.aeny.org to find out more.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
The Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Place:
Pratt Manhattan
144 West 14th Street (b/w 6th and 7th Ave)
Room 213
the food: Pizza and soda/water

Thanks to Adobe and Pratt, the meeting is FREE.

park doodles

running to pick up paper

guy in big gray sweater

baby honks baby daddy's nose

more roof doodles


when I was 4 I split my chin open in an ice cream store. I distinctly remember the doctor's hand coming in and out of my sightline while he stitched my wound. this is what it would like like if he was on fire.

roof doodles

lawn chair chicken cowboy combo:

chicken cowboy

evil building across the street, the one with the light at the top that is constantly changing colors

what the star child at the end of 2001 space odyssey looked like during the awkward junior-high phase in his life.

some festival news for Shark Suit.


Shark Suit: the Musical will be screened this weekend at the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival in Kentucky. www.bluegrassfilmfest.com

Shark Suit is also a finalist in the Angelus Student Film Festival in LA. Hopefully I can make it out there for the screening in october.


here's Art Kurtz of Angola, Indiana fame.

here's a trailer for Shark Suit: the Musical. Currently shipping it off to festivals, but you can get a short peek here.


The compression isn't too kind. Forgive me?

shark suit postcard designs. Front & back. Let me know if you hate them, cause I'm going to order a couple hundred this week.

a still from shark suit.

and...you know...a pony.

Yes. It's that time of year again.

Shark Suit: the Musical will be screening. Then on to festivals. Hopefully.

If you're wondering, that in the poster lego guy is from an awesome film in the showcase by david pagano (www.paganomation.com). Cause he's my pal, he also did a Little Guys Shark Suit figure. I hold it dear to my heart.

And here's some more from my sketchbook. My room, part 2.

manic scrubbing