Of octopuses and dogs with victrola butts...

Have some warm-up sketches I've been doing!

Billy the Octopus and Friends




Candy Cane-tailed sea mule with slight mange hates the Whale with a Polka-Dot Tail (Where my Ween fans at?)

Disturbed: The Pitch

I am now in class 5 at Animation Mentor (with mentor Mark Pudleiner) ...and that means I am creating my own 30 second short film at last! Yee heee!

This is the second assignment for the class I did--a pitch of my idea to what I pretended was a full room of animators...but was really just my digital camera.

People From Brooklyn

This was my class 4 assignment (a 2-character dialogue with camera cuts. Mentor: Nick Bruno). The sound clip is from Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'll note here that I actually re-took class 3 after class 4, so this is kind of really like class 3. ...I've confused myself.

You Americans...

This was my second class 3 assignment, a one-character dialogue (monologue?) shot. The sound clip is from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life".

Eek! A Monster!

I am totally and completely in love with all things Monstery (as you will find out when you see my short film! Hee hee!) Here is what I did for my class 3 first assignment at Animation Mentor.

One character pantomime, Class 3, mentor Jay Jackson: