an okay interview

two little clips of animation i did for "an okay place to eat" are up on the okay place blog! there is also a short written interview. check it out here!

thatsright!

another one of these two.

"i'm a bear, bitch!"

surprise!

an okay place to eat

spreading the good word about a new project i'm animating on called "an okay place to eat". the official blog is up so go check it out! okayplace blog

night carnival

a carnival came to the park around the corner from me so i went by one night to take some pictures. i didn't go on any of the rides but it was fun to walk around.


there were a lot of awkward bug themed rides...


mule pouch?


...


ok, so i've seen this ride once before at a carnival in phoenix and i almost peed my pants laughing when i saw it was called "bear affair". so what goes on with bear affair? you sit inside their tummies as they spin around. brilliant!


this funhouse dog mural was the highlight of the carnival for me. it's just so big and ridiculous! you can tell a lot of love and thought went into it.


i mean, just look at it! look!


my new life's goal is to make enough money to purchase this funhouse. i'm not sure what i'll do with it when i have it but i know i want it!

new look

just trying out a new look for my blog. i know white font on black background can get really annoying after a while. orange seemed nice.

no naked poster

so i found out that people just make their own laurels. i was all excited about the philadelphia ones... turns out they were just being nice. mm.

another shirt design

sad and indifferent animals wearing scarves...

my second design (skelepups) is now being featured on the site so i thought i'd throw another one up. the site is so easy to use, it's rather addicting.

i made some shirts!

i made a redbubble account! only two t-shirt designs up so far but it's a start. official no naked shirt to come in the hopefully not too distant future! i'll update when that happens. and i know the redbubble prices are kinda high... the base price for all t-shirts is $20 so i'm making less than $5 on every shirt but they seem to have nice quality stuff. i would have gone with cafe press but they don't offer white on black printing which makes me think all their stuff is iron-on transfer grade. not so hot. also, it seems you can buy my designs as stickers, which is kinda neat.


and in other news no naked will be shown at the san francisco frozen film festival! festival takes place july 1st through the 5th. my little film is gaining some speed, time to submit a few more dvd's!

more film festivals

philadelphia independent film festival and melbourne international animation festival have accepted "no naked!" into their programs. got my first official laurel the other day, just postin it here because i'm super excited and felt like sharing it with the world. although "no naked!" has been in five other festivals so far this is the only laurel i have received. maybe not all festivals are allowed to give out laurels? i have no idea how this all works.

the minotaur seeks a bride

i'm a classy lady

derp.

i think all of these are up on my website but i thought i would derp up my blog a bit. it needed some love. p.s. i'm back at shadow machine, workin on the chicken. good times with he-man and all my other 80's childhood favorites are being had.

flying "T"

another old test i just added sound to. i gots mad wind flute skillz, yo.

angry puppy

YES to youtube embedding capabilities! animated about two or three years ago when i was first learning flash, forgot about it, found it, added some sound and threw it up on the internet. and in case you are wondering, yes, that's me barking. thank you apple internal microphone!

the fuzzy forest begins to take shape

this is just a little tease of what the forest is going to look like. more trees and kitty critters and grassy things to come soon! and less window blinds.

a place for everything and everything in its place

the soft forest project has slowly been taking over the livingroom so i spent a good part of the day rearranging the furniture to give it it's own special area. more progress pics coming soon as i'll be spending the rest of the evening working on it :]

greetings from the phoenix film festival

actually, greetings from the phoenix airport! this was the first film festival i have been able to attend so far. flying is expensive! but the festival was very nice. i don't know how other festivals treat filmmakers but the phoenix festival has a lot of perks. you get two filmmaker passes which gets you in to every screening plus a whole bunch of free crap including a shirt and a punch card for eight free drinks. that is 16 free drinks total! they might as well just hand you a whole 16 pack of beer when you show up. i wish i had more time to really enjoy that punch card, but there is always next year. i will definitely be submitting to this festival in the future.

i didn't get many photographs at the festival but here's some fun art i found. enjoy!

fakey product packaging and logos

did all these in about ten hours total in photoshop.

moleskine sketches

i've been curious as to what all the fuss was about so i got my first moleskine sketch book a few weeks ago. it's pretty nice with its smooth corners and classy style all bundled up in a tight little package... i feel like i'm drawing in the bmw of sketchbooks. the price tag certainly reflects that, too.

i'm not a classy lady but i tell ya what, i like this sketchbok.

new yorker animated cartoons podcast

for anyone out there wondering how to get their paws on some new yorker animated fun GO HERE!

there is now a podcast (apparently this is not so new) with new episodes three times a week and supposedly that page i linked you to there updates daily with cartoons but i haven't actually checked to see if that is true. there is also a youtube page but i'm not sure how often it is updated. HERE IS THE LINK if you want to check it out.

i think i have worked on about 100 of these by this point. holy crap!

"No Naked!" on channel frederator!

the good people over at channel frederator are featuring "No Naked!" on their online program, cartoon hangover! i have been holding off on putting "no naked" online to give it a good chance to run in the festivals that don't allow films to be posted online, but it's been a year since i finished it up and it's hit a few of the bigger festivals so i think that's good enough. i'll probably still submit to those festivals that don't have this requirement, there are quite a few. so i guess this is the online premiere of "no naked"! and guess what! there is also an interview with me at the end :D cartoon hangover is generally an 18+ show but my film and the interview are straddling that PG line so it should be safe for most kids to watch.

p.s. that isn't me in the video thumbnail.

p.p.s. get ready for unnecessary bleeping!

building a fuzzy tree

progress pics of a small-ish fuzzy forest i'm making with my roommate, dina noto, for an installation. she is making the creatures in the forest and i am making the forest itself. there will be around seven to ten trees and about the same amount of creatures in the forset. all creatures are various interpretive species of dina's "love cat" character.





most of the trees will be the size of the white one pictured here. the large brown tree is something of a focal point in the forest. look at the love cats :D

ROCK AND ROLL!

acrylic and ink on drywall, painted a few months ago.

a website and a show

i really should keep up with my posting here... last thursday was the "best of animation block party" show in los angeles and my little film "no naked!" played! a lot of good this information is AFTER the show, i know.

here is the blurb about it in cartoon brew

AND and and i finally got my website up! undressedanimals.com is ready for your viewing pleasure. of course i have no idea how to make the website i want to make so i threw the whole thing together real fast in iweb, but it works and it is there and i can always make changes later. and i will. because, iweb, no mater how awesome you are i just need to be me.

a shy hello

i've been animating and building things for other people a lot lately but i haven't really drawn anything for myself in quite a while. so i drew this little guy. short characters with big noses and lots of hair are my most favorite thing to draw right now.

and now for a little context: it's 2:30 in the morning... i've been on ebay looking for awkward animation cels for over two hours... "no naked!" plays at the best of animation block party tomorrow night (tonight)... and i still don't have my website up. i need to do this! hopefully i'll at least have a gallery up or a link to my demo reel and email or something before the screening. i really don't want people to visit my "come back soon!" page anymore. it seems to lose meaning after a while.