I submitted my piece to the "Searle in America" Fundraiser Auction today. Matt Jones just posted it, which is the ink on watercolor SEINFELD cast art piece.
Go to the below links to check my piece out as well as many more from some very talented artists:
Along with production on the "Henry: The Heart Boy" short film, we have in the pipeline two exciting new projects to tell you about.
1.
The first will be a series of all new animated shorts called Freak Show
Studios "SHORT-shorts". Comic-strip like little stories that will
feature new characters in shorts about 15 seconds in length.
"Dark comedic little shorts to brighten your day."
- Ken Turner
2.
We are pleased to announce "The World of Snowboy & Crow: Series
2"!!! Your favorite snowy land characters are back in all new
adventures. This time around you find out the answers to questions
imposed from Series 1. Such as where did Crow get that "magic bean"?
What happened to Snowboy's hat that made him get a new one? What
started the epic snowball fight between Snowboy and Crow? Where did
Snowgirl come from? Series 2 will feature 5 episodes and 1 Bonus
Special episode.
Stay tuned for more news in the coming weeks and months from these two new projects along with more updates from the HENRY film.
The Henry: The Heart Boy film is moving
right along. About a third of the backgrounds are complete with about
90% of the animation cleaned and colored. The above screenshot was from
a scene I worked on yesterday. When you see the film you'll see where
this character's grumpy disposition fits in. Once animation is complete
I'll start to work on final promotional pieces for the film. More
screenshots and updates to come.
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” - Morticia Addams
Charles Samuel Addams who was the creator of the "Addams Family", that appeared in the New Yorker magazine in the 30's, inspired a popular TV series which debuted in '64 and many sitcoms, animated TV programs and two live action feature films. He was honored with the Yale Humor Award and a Special Edgar Award for "Cartoonist of the Macabre" by the Mystery Writers of America in '54. A lifelong collector of ancient armor and devices of execution and torture, which fed his fascination with death and dying. After a 24 year hiatus from the sanctity of marriage, he exchanged vows one last time in 1980, in classic Addams style, dressed in all black, when he wed Tee Matthews in her Water Mill, New york pet cemetery.
Addams died on September 29, 1988, at St. Clare's Hospital and Health
Center in New York City, having suffered a heart attack while still in
his car after parking it. An ambulance took him from his apartment to
the hospital, where he died in the emergency room. As he had requested, a wake
was held rather than a funeral; he had wished to be remembered as a
"good cartoonist". He was cremated, and his ashes were buried in the pet
cemetery of his estate "The Swamp". (info via Wikipedia)
“To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.” - Charles Addams
"When we're together, darling, every night is Halloween." - Morticia Addams
OPENING for the 60's TV series and TRAILERS for the 90's feature films:
"You're dearer to me than all the bats in the all the caves of the world." - Morticia Addams
One friend said of him, "His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's."
Next time on the Influences and Inspirations : *Hint - When he was a child, he sneaked onto the lot of Universal Studios during
a tour and befriended an editor who showed him a few things about
filmmaking.
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird,
and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love" - Dr. Suess
Theodor Seuss Geisel was a children's book poet and cartoonist who wrote under the name Dr. Suess. He published 46 children's books often involving imaginative characters and rhyme. His most popular books were The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who! and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Some other facts on Dr. Suess:
Dr Seuss: Rhymes and Reasons (2003 documentary) Part 1 of 9:
(you can find the rest of the parts on the documentary on YouTube)
Then our mother came in And she said to us two, “Did you have any fun? Tell me. What did you do?” And Sally and I did not know what to say. Should we tell her The things that went on there that day? Well... what would YOU do If your mother asked you? Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how. - The Cat in the Hat
Oh me! Oh my! Oh me! Oh my! What a lot of funny things go by. - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking
at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And
that enables you to laugh at life’s realities." - Dr. Suess
"Think and wonder, wonder and think." - Dr. Suess
"I
start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a
situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the
preachments." - Dr. Suess
"Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." - Dr. Suess
"You
have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer
yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know
what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Suess
Next time on the Influences and Inspirations : He nicknamed himself "A Defrocked Ghoul"!
"There was the irresistible impulse to draw. I cannot remember wanting to be anything else other than an artist." - Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle was a famous British artist and cartoonist who lived to be 91. Most remembered for creating the St Trinian's School books, Molesworth series and Cats books. He produced work for magazines in the 50's such as Life, Holiday and Punch and his cartoons appeared in The New Yorker. He also worked on advertisements and posters. His work influenced generations of illustrators, animators and cartoonists including Matt Groening and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmations.
"The two people who have probably had the greatest influence on my life are Lewis Carroll and Ronald Searle." - John Lennon
Here's an interview conducted in 2010 with Searle (the first interview in 35 years):
"Drawing for me has never been a case of therapy because I was shy, or
not outstanding in physical activities, or anything else. It was a
compulsion. I carried a sketchbook day and night, because I could not
stop drawing. To sell a sketch was a pleasure, because it meant a little
less economic worry and more freedom to explore. But if I had not sold,
I still would not have stopped." - Ronald Searle
Here's a couple of animated pieces done in the style of Searle:
[referring to his imprisonment in Changi Prison, a Japanese Prisoner of
War Camp, during World War II] "If all your generation - everyone you
knew - died when they were nineteen or twenty, you've got the biggest
present in the world. You live from day to day thinking "My God, I
should have died when I was nineteen and I'm eighty-five now". How many
presents can one have in one's life? Every day is a present." - Ronald Searle
Next time on the Influences and Inspirations : Dr. Theodor Geisel
NEW short film HENRY: THE HEART BOY - COMING SOON!
The World of Snowboy & Crow - Series 2 (2014-2015)
Enjoy the further adventures of these two misunderstood child-like characters. Mysteries are revealed and secrets are answered in this 2nd season of The World of Snowboy & Crow!
Episode #7: "The Origin of the Magic Bean"
Episode #8: "Frostbite"
Episode #9
SHORT-shorts - Series 1 (2013)
Click on the episodes below to watch...
Short-Shorts: Series 1 Montage
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #1: The Island
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #2: The Elevator
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #3: The Date
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #4: The Tourists
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #5: The Fang Gang
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #6: The Topiary
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #7: The Ventriloquist
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #8: The Married Life
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #9: The Three Witches
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #10: The Repossessed
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #11: The Animals Inside Us
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #12: The House Hunters - Monster Edition
SHORT-shorts EPISODE #13: The End
The World of Snowboy & Crow - Series 1 (2012)
Enter the world of Snowboy, a boy made from snow, and his friend a Crow. These two misunderstood child-like characters live in a snowy landscape full of vampires, ufos, monsters, death and love.
Episode #1 "The Birth of Snowboy"
Episode #2 "Snowboy's Family Problems"
Episode #3 "The Light & The Hat"
Episode #4 "No Trick or Treat, No Candy to Eat"
Episode #5 "'Twas The Snowball Fight Before Christmas"
Episode #6 "The Death of Snowboy"
TiM - short film (2007) : *Click on poster to watch
Timothy Gray wants to be just like Tim Burton when he grows up.
Attack of the Giant Vegetable Monsters - short film (2006) : *Click on poster to watch
A city is terrorized by a bunch of giant vegetable monsters.
Quotes for your Life:
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.
"There was no way to satisfy everybody. What you just had to hope for was that you were true to the spirit." Tim Burton on Batman, 25 today. (June 23 1989)
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your whole life making someone else's dreams come true? -Orsen Welles (Ed Wood, 1994)
"A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army." -Orson Welles
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. - Dr. Seuss (Oh, The Places You'll Go, 1990)
Don't worry about a "signature style". Just tell the story. The influence of all the things you love will BE your style. -Brad Bird (twitter, 2012)
"Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." -Jim Henson
Film-making encompasses several different art forms...achieving excellence depends on getting everything right. Do you see the challenge? - http://www.lavideofilmmaker.com
Don't wait for the right time, make time. Don't wait to be ready, get ready. A day without goals is a day spent standing still. #creativity
-Thorsten Becker @AlternateWords
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Pablo Picasso
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” -Stanley Kubrick
“I'm just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium." - Federico Fellini
"Quiet people have the loudest minds." - Stephen Hawking
“Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself” – Michael Haneke
"Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up." - Pablo Picasso
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson
"Lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin
"You only get one crack at a big opportunity so make sure you recognise it and grab it with both hands." - Darren Richards
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.” - Stanley Kubrick.
