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The Letter M

Justin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:13:29 +0000

Hey y’all! Over on the Aniboom site, Sesame Street is having an animation contest to create a short cartoon for kids that is either educational, has a pro-social message, or is a recreation of the famous pinball song. So, Bob Harper and I decided to submit a fun little short called “The Letter M” with Bob directing and animating, and myself creating the character designs. Our friend Dave DiMatteo did the audio design and music, and Eric Jenkins did the narration.

If you have a moment, please click on the image below and help rate our short:

Also, here are the original designs for the short:

Thanks everybody!!

Learn something new….

Justin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:44:29 +0000

Check out this hilarious short that my buddy Mike Roush created in just a few days at Titmouse Studios:

60 Second Science “Cloaca” from mike roush on Vimeo.

Fantastic Mr. Anderson

Justin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:49:09 +0000

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.

Mike Roush Interview!

Justin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:42:11 +0000

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!

Cool stuff coming up!!

Justin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:41:38 +0000

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!!