Tuesday, May 13, 2008

"What the Shell?!" Wins Cartoon of the Month

"What the Shell?!" has won Cartoon of the Month on Frederator!

Wow! I didn't even know that there was such a thing! Look at all this loot!


I would like to thank everyone that worked on the short, Channel Frederator, and especially all the viewers that voted! This is a big honor. Thank you!

Here's the interview if anyone missed it.

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Monday, May 05, 2008

Dumm Comics

I've been dying to blog about this project since February, and now, finally the time has come:

Dumm Comics is here!


Dumm Comics is a daily comic website that my friends and I started. It features some awesome comics from Sean Szeles, Katie Rice and Luke Cormican, Ricky Garduno and Fred Osmond, and of course some Big Pants Mouse goodness!

There will be a new comic EVERY WEEKDAY! Try to keep up!

We are currently working 3 months ahead, so there's plenty coming your way!

Here's the rough for my first comic:


Of course you have to go to the site to see the punchline...

Dumm on Myspace

Oh, and special thanks to Matt Gadbois for such a wonderful site!

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Radiohead Promo Video

I directed a music video/promo for Radiohead and Aniboom.



This to promote the "In Rainbows Music Video Contest". I hope this inspires some people to make some cool videos.

My approach was to keep as close to Radiohead's established video style. My natural style is kind of opposite of that, so it was a cool creative challenge. I animated everything in flash.


All the After Effects compositing was done by the great Matt Gadbois, the whole short produced by Jon Gibson.

I'm pretty happy with the outcome, what do you think? Too weird? Any hardcore Radiohead fans offended?

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Thursday, February 07, 2008

A Really Really Brief History of Donkey Kong

This is a short film I directed for the King Of Kong DVD.




I don't know if you're familiar with this movie, but it is great. It's an epic battle of good and evil. It's about Steve Wiebe vs. Billy Mitchell for the highest score on Donkey Kong. The movie is really more about the players.

After watching this movie, I think that Weibe deserves the title, BUT I also think the Billy Mitchell is an AMAZING gamer! One of the top of our lifetime. He's portrayed as the villian, but he is still deserves the recognition for his gaming feats. Just to put it into perspective, there probably wouldn't even be competative arcade gaming if it wasn't for Billy Mitchell.

Jon felt that the movie needed some kind of historical perspective of the actual Donkey Kong game, so the short was born.

I sure didn't do this short alone! We were under the gun for this one. We turned it around in 2 weeks--and that's all after hours work! It was a huge labor of love for everyone that worked on it at I Am 8bit Studios:

Written and Produced by Jon M. Gibson
Told by Eric Bauza
Music by 8 Bit Weapon
Designed by Steve Lambe and I
Animated by Tony Mora and I
After Effects by Matt Gadbois

Here's my animatic, just be warned, the whole thing is rough and on yellow post-its.



Every short starts with what is called a color script. This is a way to keep and overview of the whole film's color. It's a way to plan out the intensity and relationships of all the colors in all the scenes in order. Color is SUPER imporant. It basically dictates the emotions in the film--all following the story that is.

"Shiggy" Shigeru Miyamoto. I hope I've done him proud!


I loved designing DK. I must say that I despise the new DK design--ruined by RARE.


Here's some of Steve's Nintendo businessmen:

Thanks again everyone for such a fine job, and especially New Line for paying for it!

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Monday, January 21, 2008

What the Shell?!

Here's my short I did for the Nintendo Short Cuts Film Festival.




Here's some BG's by Tony Mora:

I thought it would be funny to have everything in Mario's house pipes, just because, you know, he is a plumber...

This is before textures.

This is after.

I animated the whole thing in a weekend. It was a lot of fun to get my Mario design movin'. I've been dying to ever since I did the first painting. Here's the animation before I comped in Tony's BGs, you can still see me super rough animatic on post-its.



The music was by the awesome band 8 Bit Weapon.

If I did more shorts, would guys actually buy a DVD collection?

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Big Pants Mouse Holiday Special (Part 2)

Stop reading if you haven't read the first part which can be found here.

Ok, now that you know what's going on, here's the conclusion to our magic pantsed holiday adventure...












Happy Holidays to everyone!

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Monday, December 17, 2007

Big Pants Mouse Holiday Special (Part 1)

Here's the first part of the Big Pants Mouse Holiday comic I did in 2001:

Enjoy!






What thoughts percalate in that little pup's twisted mind? Stay tuned for part 2!

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