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.

more color and background tests.

widescreen is fun.

color test for chicken cowboy

a design for a paddle boat I've been thinking about for a long time. Sitting on the boat's lips, you propel the large fiberglass thing by pedals in the nasal cavity. I saw a sculpture something like this that gave me the idea. I have a picture of it somewhere. But it was not a paddle boat.

I'm still not sure how you would steer. Maybe by grabbing a mustache. But I would sort of like to have separate his and her models, so a mustache is out. Either way, good for fishing and catching turtles in nets.

some dogs in the park





and some portrait stuff

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.

Bobo loves his toaster.

I can never get through a philosophy class without drawing at least one picture of prof block.

some life drawing
one minute

one minute


twenty minutes

My pal David Pagano was on the front page of the wall street journal on saturday. He makes movies with legos. Check it out his website: www.paganomation.com


Here's a Little Guy™ he made based on Ethan, the main character from Shark Suit. I wouldn't dare sculpting with so few pieces, but the likeness is uncanny.

"what people are ashamed of usually makes for a good story."
-f scott fitzgerald


quick sketch

a chicken cowboy painting

I'm trying to find a way to get more of a textural, painterly feel in the film itself, short of painting every frame. But that might be fun too.

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.

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.

watching some good old road runner for inspiration

bad guys

napkin drawings!

type in squids in google...

the rest writes itself

boards are fun




I love crayons. Not always the most practical way to board, but they suit me.

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.

a return to school. and figure drawing.

and some words from my grandmother, Gigi:

"I used to take life drawing.. Boy--did I get excited about that; they didn't wear any clothes!"

me: I didn't know you did that.
gigi: there isn't much I haven't done!

some chicken cowboy


another one from "people to people"


hooray for school

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.