Keeping Busy

I'm currently working on a couple of enjoyable projects.

A private equity firm has commissioned me to make a film for their Christmas party. It's basically a roast of their partners. The guys that are writing the short work for the firm and have some really funny ideas for the piece. Basically, we are going to take old classic films -- particularly war films -- and put cut-outs of the partners' faces over the lead characters. I think it's going to be a blast.

Also, Gavin Grace from Blue Peach Media has hired me to design and animate a video presentation for one of his Fortune 500 clients. It's motion graphics -- I'm flexing different muscles, but they're good muscles to flex occasionally!

BGRG Featured on Revver

Blue Guy vs Red Guy is featured today as an Editor's Pick on the Revver front page. With a little luck, I'm hoping to be able to afford a beer with the proceeds of this film!

Blue Guy vs. Red Guy

Here is Blue Guy vs Red Guy, the 3D short that I spent much of my free time on this summer. It started as an exercise... a way of getting my feet wet in 3D character animation. Before I knew it these two were becoming characters and having a relationship and going through a little story arc... they sort of decided they wanted to be in a movie.

Once again, it was a pleasure to work with composer Karl Preusser. This is the third piece he's done for me and he always brings something good to the party.  Also, this was the first time I worked with Kevin Scott.  Kevin has done sound design for animation before at Funny Garbage, where I have also worked.  As you can hear, he did a great job... and was a delight to work with.

A Blog Is Born

Here starts the Homebaked blog!  Sure, you might have caught me blogging elsewhere, but this spot will be just about my work in animation.  Here you will be safely insulated from my political rantings and strange observations.