Toyota Adventures by: Gentleman Scholar

Toyota 'Adventures'
Directed by Gentleman Scholar
Have you ever had the urge to travel through Los Angeles in hyper-speed? read more...

I was lucky enough to have those fellers at Gentleman Scholar call me back again to do animation, layout and previs for this beautiful project.  Just like 'Surprise & Delight', this handsome piece of advertisement is playing outside L.A. Live on the multi-screens, hence the wide format. I love working with these guys, and the new studio space is killer. 

Target Surprise & Delight by: Gentleman Scholar

Target - 'Surprise & Delight'
Directed by: Gentleman Scholar
We worked with Target to build a wonderful world... read more

Here's a fun piece of animation that Gentleman Scholar was nice enough to ask me to hop onto while I was working on the Gates project. It's playing outside the Nokia Plaza downtown and they posted a shot of that as well. I animated the Octopus in the underwater scene.

Gates Foundation U.S. Education by: Gentleman Scholar

Gates Foundation - U.S. Education
Directed by: Gentleman Scholar
At some point in each of our lives, we have all had a teacher effect us in an incredibly positive way… read more

Here's a little mixed media ditty that I had the pleasure of working on at Gentleman Scholar.  This joint had great coffee and some of the friendliest bunch of loons I've worked with. And they gave me a free G.S. t-shirt! I'm really excited to get back in there especially since they're in some new digs in Culver City, check it out.

Google Fiber by: Brand New School

Production Company: Brand New School

Directed by: Mike Calvert

This is a three part spot that I worked on with my friend Dony down at BNS in Santa Monica. I worked on the "Loading Bar" sequence.  That place is full of nice people and good coffee and I'm excited to work with them again. 

Keebler On The Big Screen

Emily and I saw Brave this weekend with our friends Steve, Wells and Tammy. Wells, on my left, leaned in and started talking to Steve, on my right, about something, while I was slunk in my seat greedily enjoying my 1lb. bag of Twizzlers when I GASPED and thrust my free pointing hand right through their conversation and personal space to directing them to the Keebler commercial that was playing on screen!  Needless to say this was a freak out moment and the combination of a mouth full of Twizzlers and speechlessness left me an ill-mannered, mumbling, wide-eyed fool with his jaw dropped clear down to the floor and a smile so big it hurt.  This was a first.

Seeing something I worked on, on the same big screen as the fantastic movie I've been waiting to see for over a year was unbelievable. No it's probably not the same as seeing my own animation in a feature film but damn it, it felt really cool to see that piece of hard work up there.

Keebler - Uncommonly Good by: Buck

Agency: Leo Burnett
Directed by: Buck
Since the 1960s, this adorable elfin clan has been making fudgetastic cookies in a hollow tree. This year, it is our undeniable honor...read more

Once again those good people at Buck threw together a fantastic piece of animated commercial and were generous enough to ask Lanky and me to come back and help animate along with a new friend, Dony Permedi.  It was a lot of fun working on this little diddy and I'm looking forward to working with this crew some more.

Here's what I animated.
Shot Breakdown:
(0:04 - 0:08)
Character Animation only: Wolf, Sheep, Elmer

(0:21 - 0:25)
Character Animation only: Boy, Girl, Ernie

MTV Chameleon Makes Stash 92

Holy cow, Chameleon made issue 92 of Stash DVD Magazine! Buck threw together some behind the scenes for Stash and I saw one of my earlier playblasts in this podcast that didn't make the final cut. Very neat. Can't wait to buy the dvd.

Check out the article here.