Horton's out on DVD!!

Horton is finally out on DVD and I have my shots to show you. Horton was amazing to work on, even though I was only there two months I learned tons. So here ya go, my shots from Horton Hears a Who!

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Blocking Test - When we first started at Blue Sky they had us do a blocking test with the mayor to help us ramp onto the show. It was a lot of fun!

So as promised below here is the explanation for our move to California. I've accepted a position at DreamWorks Animation! I've been with DW now for 6 months and I absolutely love it here. I'm surrounded by extremely talented and generous animators. Not only that but a ton of my favorite animators from AM work here as well! DW is such a great studio to be apart of and I love getting up every morning to go there...the free breakfast may have something to do with that..haha. I'll definitely be posting more about my experiences here at DreamWorks.

So some of you know and some of you may not know but after my last post in January I started freelancing for ReelFX Creative Studios. This was a fantastic gig. I got to work from home on some really cool commercials featuring DreamWorks' Kung Fu Panda. My supervisor there was Dave Vallone, some of you may know him from Animation Mentor. Dave was a fantastic sup and made the difficult task of, organizing notes from several different outside sources and then delivering them simply and clearly to a team of outside animators, run amazingly smooth. I don't know how he did it. So here are the commercials I worked on for ReelFX:(You can click on the image to see the video)


The first project I did with ReelFx was for the 2008 Academy Awards. Barry Bee from Bee Movie was announcing the winner for Best Animated short. I've posted the entire segment here. The parts that I animated are(sorry I'll try to cut it up later):
The shot were Barry introduces his "Earlier work"
"And the Oscar goes too..." This was a lot of fun because we didn't know the winner so I had to hide his mouth behind the card and make a loop that could be for any one of the names.
I also did the little clap cycle at the end. The Academy was not sure how long they would need to see him clapping.


The next ad I did was for Hubba Bubba. This was great because not only was this my first chance to animate Po but Aardman Animation was responsible for the stop motion meerkat in the foreground. I was given reference of Jason Reisig's shots of Po punching the dummy as to the feel that they wanted. I love those shots! I'm really happy with the hit that Po takes as it knocks him off screen. I animated Po coming on screen in the beginning up until he knocks himself off. The rest was done by another animator at ReelFX.


This ad is for Samsung. It only aired in Korea I believe and it was part of a series of Olympic themed KFP ads to air around the 2008 Olympics. My part starts about half way in. It's the high shot looking down at Po lifting the weights and I animated the rest of the ad to the end except for a cut in shot of Po's ripped pants.




This ad was for Hewlet-Packard. It is part of their "Hands" ad campaign. This shot went through a lot of changes but in the end I think it looks great and I had a lot of fun working on it. My shot is from the beginning to Po flipping the pages in the book. And by the way a lot of that cloth animation in the beginning was done by hand....ha!

Ok so it's almost been a year since my last post.....wow so much has happened since then. I finally have some new stuff to post and share. I started this blog to help share what I've been up to with friends and family, and its about time I put something up. Being an animator I end up going through periods of lots of work and then some with a lot less. I'm glad to say since my last post I've been very busy, and the family and I made a big move across the country to California! I'll post in more details about that after this post. I just wanted to give a brief update before the flood of new stuff.