'Tis The Season

Near Christmas time a few years ago,
I went to a party for my condo.

And that is where and when I met my beautiful girlfriend. The image above is of an ink and watercolor painting I created for her on the anniversary of our first date.

Happy Holidays!

Soupy Sketch Weekly- Anxious Cracker

Another week, another sketch.

Fall

Fall 2007 from Justin Cichon on Vimeo

My friend/co-worker Justin Cichon created this sweet film last year. Fall is my favorite time of the year and this film does a great job depicting this beatuiful season. I thought I would share this with the five people who find themselves on my blog. Enjoy!

For those who are unfamiliar with this animation technique, it is called pixilation, which is defined as content produced by filming frame by frame live actors to produce the illusion of motion.

Soupy Sketch Weekly- Sexy Platypus

Another weekly sketch made for the Soup blog. Last week I rediscoverd Photoshop and I am loving how quick you can do color comps underneath rough sketches.

Soupy Sketch Weekly- Ornery Chameleon

For the past few weeks, all of the artists at Soup2Nuts have been doing weekly drawings of a random adjective and noun combination. We have two jars containing pieces of paper, one with nouns written on them and the other with adjectives. Every Friday someone picks one piece of paper from each jar and then we post every ones drawings or animations to the SoupyNuts blog a week later. It has been great fun. This is the second one I was able to take part in. Below is last weeks "quizzical snot" drawing.

My first Comic Strip?

A couple of years ago my film HYPERACTIVE INGREDIENTS had its first public screening. It screened in Brooklyn NY at the Animation Block Party in front of a huge audience. This years Animation Block Party runs July 25-27, and the program guide is going to be filled with comic strips from filmmakers who have previously screened films at the festival.

This is my submission. I took a few frames from a storyboard I am currently working on and created what I think is my first comic strip. I can't believe I never made one of these before. I had a lot of fun working on it. Maybe my next film will be accompanied by a graphic novel version of the story.

Hyperactive Ingredients on the web

I finally put my first animated short film HYPERACTIVE INGREDIENTS on the web. The official site is www.hyperactiveingredients.com and you can find a permanent link on the right side of this blog. On the site you can view the entire film via the YouTube video player, download a high quality quicktime, and download the DVD case insert art. Enjoy!

UPDATE!
Now available to watch at AWNtv.com. This site has a huge selection of animated films to watch. The image quality is really good but the frame rate is a little wonky.