Digital Hollywood Panel Discussion

Date May 19, 2009

I was invited to take part in a panel discussion a month back, and the team captured my ramblings on video. I interject here an there throughout the panel, but if you’re really dying to see just my introductory comments, they’re at 25:40.

Competitive Awesome Logo

Date April 1, 2009

My funny-ass pals Mychal Utecht and Aaron Gingrich combine to form the unholy alliance known as The Competitive Awesome. They are funny and you will laugh. That is a scientific fact. More facts…. I designed their logo. They had a similar logo with the fist and the brass knuckles thing, I just updated it and added some bling. Here’s the result:

IMPORTANT!  I did not design Aaron and Mychal - just the logo

White House Dog Logo Design

Date January 20, 2009

If you watched last night’s special Kids’ Inaugural: We Are the Future on Disney Channel, you may have spotted my latest logo. The talented guys at Six Point Harness Studios in Hollywood created a handful of shorts that took us in and out of commercials. The animated shorts are titled America’s Next White House Dog. Spoofing FOX’s long-running hit show American Idol, the shorts imagine the lengths the Obamas might go through to pick their puppy. Here’s the design:

white house dog logo
 

Name Change: Aaron Southpark

Date January 2, 2009

2008 holiday cardFor our 2008 holiday card, my wife and I cracked on our family name. Click the image to see a bigger version. Daniela came up with the “Southparks” gag.

Interviewed at ActionScriptHero

Date January 2, 2009

actionsriptI was recently interviewed over at ActionScriptHero.org. Truth be told, I know squat about ActionScript, but that site crosses over into my wheelhouse - Flash animation. A big thanks to Pablo “aSH” Parrado, the founder of ActionScripHero.org, for inviting me to blab about myself.

Simpson Meets His Maker

Date September 7, 2008

Matt Groening at Comic-ConAt this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, I met a number of my friends and also a few of my heroes. But only one of these folks created the most famous Simpson family in the world, and I’m not talking about my parents. I was hanging out at the Spike and Mike booth when the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, walked up to say hello to Spike, and I quickly snapped this photo. I somehow managed to keep myself from saying “MY LAST NAME IS SIMPSON! YOU CREATED THE SIMPSONS - WOW!”

All Your Smurf Are Belong In Collection

Date September 6, 2008

A long time ago, in a decade far, far away, I created a tribute video to help feed the All Your Base phenomenon.  If you don’t know what this is, enjoy the original, and then watch my poorly animated short, The $20,000 Zig, alternately titled All Your Smurf Are Belong To Us (which has been viewed over a 250,000 times at newgrounds.com). It was recently included as part of CollegeHumor.com’s Web Celeb collection.

>

Meeting Michael Eisner at the Webby Awards

Date March 3, 2008

I was at the Webby Awards in Laguna late last year, and I bumped into my pal and one-time boss, Dan Wolf, and the man we worked for back then - Michael Eisner. A photographer caught the moment and it wound up in the NYT today.

NYT - Eisner

Judging at the Aniboom Awards

Date February 23, 2008

2nd Annual Aniboom Awards.I was invited this year to be a judge in the 2nd Annual Aniboom Awards. If you’re not already aware of Aniboom, it’s a rapidly growing user-gen animation site that’s operated out of Israel. It’s not unlike Newgrounds.com, except that they aren’t so Flash-focused.

Several Flash-animated shorts were included amongst the finalists, which I detailed here at Coldhardflash.com.

Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island

Date November 12, 2007

Here’s a few clips from a series I produced titled Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island. It aired on KidsWB!, and currently airs on Canada’s Teletoon network.

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

The entire series was produced in Flash, and we teamed up with 3 overseas studios who animated - Studio B, Cyber Chicken and Future Thought.