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Here’s a clip of Wes Anderson accepting his Special Achievement award for “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” at the Nation Board of Review ceremony. It’s so cool that he got some of the team from the movie to turn him into a stop motion character, and make an acceptance speech that much more original and creative. And if you haven’t seen the movie, go out and buy it on DVD! It’s a well-crafted, very entertaining film.

My buddy Mike Roush made a super cool animated short called “The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl”, which has made the rounds and won several awards at film festivals all over the world. The full film is not online yet, BUT here’s a really informative interview he did for Spoiler Alert radio:

Interview

Go Mike!

My, how time flies! I have some updates for you guys on some exciting things that are coming up….

First off, on Saturday December 5th, “The Those Guys” are holding their 2nd annual “Hey You Guys” Charity event at the Rialto Theatre, in Pasadena. There will be an art auction and a screening of everyone’s favorite “Ghostbusters”, with all profits of the evening going to Donors Choose to help out less fortunate children with their school materials and things. Check out our official site here!

Also, two things are happening this Sunday Nov. 15th. Firstly, at 8:30 pm on Fox is the first episode of The Cleveland Show I had the honor of directing, entitled “Ladies Night”.  Here are a couple of official promo screen caps of the episode:

The second thing happening is the official release of Dean Yeagle’s “Mandy” Sketch card series, spearheaded and available through 5finity productions. I was invited to do 56 original cards for the series, 3 of which I can show here:

I was able to hold on to 4 of the originals, which I might be selling sometime in the near future. I’ll keep you guys posted on that….

Also, just released last week is the entire box set of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season one on DVD! If you guys haven’t checked out the series on Cartoon Network yet, then this is the best way to do it! You can get it here on Amazon.

And last but not least, “G.I. Joe Resolute” is finally out on glorious DVD! I had the honor of working with the amazingly talented Joaquim Dos Santos and crew at Titmouse Inc., and am excited to see this finally out and available to the public! You can get it here on Amazon.

Alrighty, that’s it for now. I’ll be posting more art and random stuff soon, so please check back often! Thanks!!