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.
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.
.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.
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.
Matt Danner’s series Leo McMight the Foot Tall Knight needed a logo design before he started pitching it around. Danner designed the stained glass segment, and then I added in the logo and built a cover design in Photoshop.
Mike Milo, a storyboard artist, director and series creator, sold a show idea to Warner Bros. Animation back in 2003. I ended up producing the pilot for his show Knights of Sherwood, and I also designed the logo.
The 2003 Simpson Family Holiday card was before we were both Simpsons. Daniela was still a Votavova, the name she was born with in the Czech Republic. There, the tradition is to buy a carp in the town square, which will become the centerpiece of the Christmas feast. I took liberties with this concept that year and designed a 3-panel fold-out card depicting the story of a doomed carp. Here’s the first panel:
In 2003, I was the Production Manager for Xiaolin Showdown, a series created by Christy Hui. One of the crew members (Lois Lee?) added me to a scene in one of the episodes as the bus driver. Note the signature giant chin.
Once again, Matt Danner and I teamed up on a project - this time for Special Delivery, a series pitch. It wasn’t our concept, but Danner created the designs, Lois Lee inked, and colored and then built the pitch bible.
The 2004 Holiday season was all about puppets. I had recently finished several puppet projects and I figured I’d take a swipe at designing my wife Daniela and I in that style.
September 6, 2008 
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