Put This In Your Eye Hole

Okay, I'm done with the poster now.. I could tweak but it's time to move on.
I've got some dancing pizzas to animate!

Nice Package

Eye Like Pizza is almost done!

Sound effects, ambiences and final mix are in the works right now, should be done in the next couple weeks.

I'm waiting on a few, final render tweaks.

This weekend I'll be putting together a DVD package design.

Check out these beautiful little cases! Lots of filmmakers and design-types are using them.. really slick package! Of course, I'd love to package each DVD in a foam eyeball but that might get expensive.

http://www.jewelboxing.com/index.php

Eye Like Pizza Poster!

Spent a nugget o' time tonight putting together a poster for Eye Like Pizza.

It's lookin' pretty good so far, we'll see if I like it tomorrow.

Animation Almost Complete!

Lots of lost sleep lately but it's definitely paid off! I have only a few dancing pizza slices left before animation wraps!

Score is done... foley, ambiences and other audio are getting started this week.. shouldn't take too long.

Need to do a neato poster, dvd packaging and t-shirt design.

Here's a couple glorious stills:

Train Drawing #23 - Apple McGee

Apple McGee is Rainy McGee's grumpy cousin.

Rainy McGee is a fun-loving, goofball, cloud with a heart of gold (in my short; Eye Like Pizza).

(see below)

Some Animation

One of the very dramatic, heart-warming moments in Eye Like Pizza.

For the love of all that's salty, try to keep yourself together.

Oh Rainy McGee

Sorting out some goofy particle FX, here's a few final (?) frames!

Song and Dance

Well, 4 minutes (out of 5) are animated.

The last minute is a grande-finale song and dance number feating many characters... should be good times!

Pizza Party Dance Theme written and recorded this weekend.. Get ready for it!

JR

The First Sequence - More!

A few test frames to put in your eye hole for a minute:

The First Sequence

Happy New Year everyone (anyone?).

Here's a quick and dirty background for the first sequence.

Sort of primitive but it may just work.

Uno the cyclops pizza gardener planting pizza with his cloud friend Rainy McGee.

NOTE:

Sharing pizza with someone will always make them your friend.

Train Drawing #08 - Natural Selection

Natural selection has a way of working things out...

Even in the pizza world.

Location location location?

Did a little background work while the render monster chomps away.

Animated 21 seconds this weekend and a 1577 frames of 2 character lipsync today... BABOOSH!

Train Drawing #54 - Pineapple Sandwich

Sad but true.

It's okay Pineapple, I still love you.

Train Drawing #65 - The Less Popular S-Rex

Yep.

Train Drawing #47 - Sound Effects Jenkins

Number 47 - "Sound Effects" Jenkins
If you are a hobo, consider changing your name to this. Actually, if you are a hobo and have somehow weaseled your way onto the internets, bravo my good fellow, you have graduated from hobodom and are well on your way to being President*.

Now stop reading and start looking:

*and by President I mean unemployed, former hobo.

Nobody will hire a hobo, you know, with the economy and all.

Train Drawing #21 - Bacon and Egg

I ride a train to work.

If I was still 5, I would be thrilled about this.

A couple months ago I did a train sketchbook where I did at least one stupid cartoon every day.

Here is Day 21 - Bacon and Egg.

Motion Blur in MentalRay

(not my bg, just something to mess with the renders on top of)

So, MentalRay looks great.

And, motion blur is kind of neat for quick, cartoony stuff.

Put them together and you get a big, bowl of slow.

If you like math, this is the equation: MR+MB=SLOW.

Anybody have any decent looking motion-blur-in-post solutions?

Getting late, bed calling.

Need to investigate this MB in MR situation further tomorrow.

Oh, and bring a drill for Sean.

And Up blu-ray for the other Sean.

This is getting crazy!!!

It's a sign of the apocalypse... dogs living with cats etc etc etc

(new still from my short, eye like pizza)

It's ALIIIIVE!!!

Here's a short giblet of animation.

Uno is very sad here. So sad, in fact, that not even icecream will cheer him up. Good try though cyclops... good try.

Ears are a bit too floppy/floaty/mushy/squishy. I'll have to sort that out.

Disco Cyclops!

Animated a whole bunch this weekend.. close to 30 seconds.

Here's a still from a real humdinger of a sequence. Disco is back baby!