more:


this one's a little bright. But exploring how the characters fit in their environments.

maybe something like this:


but with a texture cycle going over the entire chicken. Paper or fabric. I'm still testing.

I want to make it the final product really big, too. Either 720p or 1080i.

some backgrounds I painted for chicken cowboy. they scanned a little hot, so I might desaturate them a bit when I get some characters in here. More of a sepia feel? Anyhow, I'm trying to paint them as small as possible for texture and stuff. We'll see.

Some drawings for a title sequence for Liz Toonkel's short Fashion Kills! A little strange, but it's fun doing somethig different.





It's that time of year when there are millions of things to do. You'll start to see more coffee stains on all my work. See above.

some stills from a few animation tests. I'm thinking about just lining the facial features now (rather than the entire figure), but boiling those features continuously. The choice ultimately will have a lot to do with how the BGs and color directions go, but I'm open to whatever works best for the film.



mario galaxy looks cooool.

another cow dude.

more designs


the outlaw.

Does anyone remember these things from the 80s called bow bites? They were little plastic faces that clipped onto your shoe laces. As I recall they came in many different shapes. I had "animal" ones from the muppets. I'll try and find them at thanksgiving. I would like to bring the fad back.

more designs

This guy blows things up. There should be a designated explosives specialist in any gang of worth, in my opinion.

trying to push the designs.

here's benny two point oh.

chicken cowboy. here's the look direction it's going in, for better or worse.


the colors look very different depending on the monitor. Does anyone know the best way to calibrate a monitor? Or what to calibrate it to? Or how?

metal figures from the Greek Ministry of Tourism.

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.

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