Festival of the Masters 2012

For the third year in row, I had awesome opportunity to be one of the sketch artist for the Disney Interactive tent to help promote their new video game "Epic Mickey 2" at the 2012 Festival of the Masters

Me & my Ears

My drawing of the Lonesome Ghost! Never thought I get opportunity to draw these classic characters

Celeste Cronrath & Oswald

Jason Peltz, too cool for the hat!

Celeste taking request

Celeste & I drawing away.

Celeste with special drawing for Disney Interactive bigwigs

Disney Interactive  Studios tent

The Characters we drew for the guests this year!

Chick n' Slice

Check out my friend Lavalle Lee McGuirk's animated short "Chick n' Slice", he  has been working on his spare time over the last year. I contributed little bits of EFX animation, but was redone/cleanup in Flash. 

En Fuego

Doodling away, Oh its an 80's Heavy Metal album cover.

Doing the Wave

Tidal Wave EFX drawing.

...like the 4th of July

Happy Independance Day!

  Some Photoshop/Coloring work by me from a drawing by Raul Pacheco for Crackerland

30 Years of Secrets

A Very Happy 30th Anniversary to "The Secret of NIMH" 

released July 2, 1982

On the occasion of the films 30th anniversary, I got the chance to interview one of the creators of one of my favorite animated films. For our site dedicated to classical hand drawn animation.

Read my interview with Gary Goldman on TraditionalAnimation.com

http://www.traditionalanimation.com/2012/30th-anniversary-of-the-secret-of-nimh-gary-goldman-exclusive/

Animation is Golden

At the CTN last November , one of the artist I was most looking forward to meeting was Scott T.Petersen. Former Disney, Dreamworks & Warner Bros. Animator who now runs his own studio Golden Street Animation in Utah & keeping the traditional animation art form alive.  Scott was very friendly & generous with his time to talk to little ole me about our love for hand drawn animation.

Scott & I

Six months later I asked him for interview to help promote his instructional dvd series

Read my interview with  animator Scott T. Petersen

http://www.traditionalanimation.com/interviews/interview-with-animator-scott-t-petersen/

Pizza Pizza

A rough pass of melting EFX " Slice" from my friend Lavalle's upcoming Flash cartoon Chick n Slice... 

"what a world, what a world"

Savannah International Animation Festival

My trip to Savannah International Animation Festival

EFX Reel

Updated Traditional 2d EFX Animation reel

Savannah International Animation Film Festival

I been asked to be part of the third "Savannah International Animation Film Festival" during the weekend of April 13th & 14th 2012 in historic Savannah, Georgia. To give a talk about how we are developing our cartoon " Crackerland" Simply Amazin'