
I animated one of the main characters from Bubble Guppies, Gil, for the Big Fall Premieres Promo for Nick Jr. The animation was done in Maya as well as modeling the megaphone. The compositing was done by a vendor of ours. VP Brand Creative – Matthew Duntemann Animation Director – Chris Papa Animation – Robert [...]

The Lift explores the consequences of one very common behavior of not holding the elevator door open for someone rushing to get on or worse, lifting your finger and actively pushing the close button. In this film, an elevator interaction between the two lead characters goes wrong, prompting a young woman to learn about being [...]

I never wanted to get this far behind but moving can do that. Unfortunately I am no longer a Brooklynite and now a Manhattanite. I moved to Battery park a little more than a month ago and about 2 weeks after my last post. I didn’t have much to post since setting everything up and [...]

I am moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan later this month and decided that I need to purge a lot of belongings. As it happens I begin to find old sketchbooks, drawings and other assorted knick-nacks. I stumbled on some of the pencil drawings which later became the designs for the main character in my film [...]

Prior to working on the Halloween Spots for Nickelodeon On-Air, I worked on three logo slates for the gaming department. The slates have been used iOS, Wii and PC Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. Games. Sometimes when I am at an Apple Store I see a little kid starting up an iMac and playing the latest Diego [...]

In the last three posts about my next film, Europa, I shared concepts of Savannah, my main character. This week I am posting a glimpse into the process, the storyboards for the first minute of Europa, in animatic form. I used Storyboard Pro to create the animatic and the final project will be animated in [...]

I started attending a class at MoCCA (Museum of Comic and Cartooning Art) in New York for storyboarding. It’s being taught by Stephen DeStefano of Ren and Stimpy fame. I also began working on my thumbs and storyboard panels for my next film to follow The Lift called Europa. I have previously posted some turnarounds [...]

As 2010 comes to a close I am starting my next film. I have posted some characters in the past and I am starting to narrow down a style. While I want it to be a tad simpler than the characters in The Lift, I want them to still have a relation in style as [...]