Apt and shoot prelim

Hey guys! So I've been super-busy lately - apartment hunting, work stuff, etc. Mostly the apt though - at the end of it, me and Dan (my bf) decided to stick with the apartment I have and move into the large room and find room-mates for the small rooms.

I just got back form the craziest shoot ever. It's almost record-breaking for amount of stop-mo animators on set and for the scale of it - it's an ad for Sony.

MoCCA, Flash, & cute Kama Sutra

Went to MoCCA last weekend - it was pretty sweet, met lots of people, got lots of comics. I got a table for next year that I'm sharing with my friend Megan, so hopefully it'll force me to make a comic and some puppets and such.

Was playing around in Flash yesterday - it's a program I've used very little of in the past, embarassingly enough. I made this thing!

Click to play.



I also have the most awesome illustration job ever right now - 20 drawings of intricate sexual positions. I've only done some rough sketches so far, but I'm having fun. The style came about because I wanted something playful & sexy - instead I think I've inadvertantly made the cutest Kama Sutra ever...

Neocolor II experiments and babble

Excitement! I just googled my name and my website is on the first page! This is great! I say this because my name is -incredibly- common, and several successful people have it, including an established author with stuff on Amazon. So I just kinda resigned myself to the concept of being a couple pages in between imbd and doctor's office links. But no! I can be semi-easily found now! Huzzah!

I was only able to get half of what I wanted done this week - I spent a whole day bliztkrieging Craigslist and the SVA career board on all the illustration/animation freelance jobs instead of contacting studios. I may have gotten a hilarious job out of it, too. I might be drawing sex positions for articles on a popular sex forum/website. I hope I get that job, because it will be fun & money!

Oh yeah! If you're in NYC any time this summer, and go to SVA OR are a member of ASIFA-East, then you can go to free figure drawing classes! They're on Thursdays, 7-9:30. Check out the ASIFA-East website for more info.


Remember when I said I got those neocolor II watercolour crayons? Well, here's my first experiments with them...



A crazy mermaid (I seem to be on a mermaid kick lately) - the colour is all muddied, I'm not overly fond of it. I was gonna have fins floating out from her shoulders and everything, but I doubt I'll come back to this...



I think every cartoonist/animator has at least one picture of a disaffected lady with an eyepatch under their belt. I was just futzing around and getting a better grasp at how the crayons work - you really have to sharpen them a lot if you want precision...

Yep yep

Hey guys! So....life updates.

Well, I got some Caran d'Ache Neocolor II's the other day - they're very ritzy watercolor crayons from Switzerland. I was only able to get them because they were on sale PLUS I had a coupon PLUS a student discount. I've started experimenting with them, but of course my new sketchbook is exactly the wrong type of paper for such things - ah well. I'll get some scans up soons...

As for work, well...it's ok. I've got a possible gig in the fall doing stop-motion animation on someone independant film (and maybe creating the sets, too), and another possible gig helping someone animate educational biology music videos. Still, I feel strangely lazy and like I'm just not being proactive enough, and I spend waaaay too much of my day around my computer.

Intro & Webpage

Hey guys! Welcome to my new blog.

For those interested, I finally got my website up, feel free to visit and give feedback: Jumping Jehosaphat!

Also, my animation thesis is up on youtube - check it out.