aaaron.com - The Online Home of Aaron Simpson http://aaaron.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 19 May 2009 13:18:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Digital Hollywood Panel Discussion http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=47 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=47#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 13:18:45 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=47 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.

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=47 Competitive Awesome Logo http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=42 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=42#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:00:34 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=42 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

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=42 White House Dog Logo Design http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=40 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=40#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:17:08 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=40 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
 

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=40 Name Change: Aaron Southpark http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=39 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=39#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:17:54 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=39 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.

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=39 Interviewed at ActionScriptHero http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=36 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=36#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:03:54 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=36 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.

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=36 Simpson Meets His Maker http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=35 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=35#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:47:22 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=35 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!”

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=35 All Your Smurf Are Belong In Collection http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=33 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=33#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:20:27 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=33 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.

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]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=33 Meeting Michael Eisner at the Webby Awards http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=32 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=32#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:42:10 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=32 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

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=32 Judging at the Aniboom Awards http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=30 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=30#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:49:14 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=30 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.

]]> http://aaaron.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=30 Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=28 http://aaaron.com/blog/?p=28#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:20:07 +0000 admin http://aaaron.com/blog/index.php/tv-production/coconut-freds-fruit-salad-island/ 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.


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

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