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We are proud to announce that “The Infinite Goliath” is part of the Los Angeles Children’s International Film Festival Best of Festival being held this weekend November 13 to 15th on Kaua’i, Hawaii at the Kaua’i Pacific School! Erik and I are excited to be a part of the event!

Erik and I are also working on an Infinite Goliath live-action movie pitch…the test stills above were painted by the amazingly talented Shaun Pendergast of www.monkeyspin.com! Shaun also did the artwork for the Goliath postcard, which we will also be using in the pitch! Thanks Shaun!

–Mike and Erik

My new poster/banner for conventions & appearances, I had it made at Kinko’s in Elk Grove, CA and they did a terrific job (it even folds into itself for travel, and comes with a shoulder bag to carry it in)!

Speaking at the SF Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival after the “Thom Cat” & “The Infinite Goliath” screenings [Read more…]

I have a few announcements!:

1) I am proud to announce that “Thom Cat” and “The Infinite Goliath” will be shown at the SF Bay Int’l Children’s Film Fest at Wondercon in San Francisco, CA at the Moscone Center Feb 27th to March 1, 2009! I will also have a table in Artist’s Alley, hope to see you there!: http://www.comic-con.org/

2) Also, I was recently interviewed by AWN about working on “Thom Cat” and “The Infinite Goliath” for Nicktoons/Frederator’s “Random Cartoons” show!:
http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&category2=&article_no=3892&page=2

3) I will be the “Artist in Residence” at the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa this coming Saturday, Feb 14th from 1pm-3pm, hope you can make it! http://www.schulzmuseum.org/

4) I launched my first webcomic, “Clumsy Love” last week, I hope you will check it out: www.clumsylove.net !

–Mike
www.pencilforhire.com
www.clumsylove.net

Our family cat, Mr. Bobo, passed away on 9/15/ 2008 at 20 years of age. Originally named simply “Bo” after Bo Jackson by my sister (hey, it was 1988), he became known as “Bobo,” then finally “Mr. Bobo” the last 8 years. He was a great “little brother,” and will be missed. I am glad that Mr Bobo will be immortalized as the “Infinite Goliath’s” cat once the short airs on “Random Cartoons” hopefully in January of 2009 (he appears as a white cat in the cartoon, in order to help him stand out from Goliath’s color scheme).

Miss you Mr Bobo!

–Mike

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I was given the go ahead to put up some clips from The Infinite Goliath! I hope you enjoy them, I am really happy with how this cartoon turned out!

–Mike

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These Title Cards were painted by the extremely talented Dave Eppen!

–Mike

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These are two fantastic paintings of ‘The Infinite Goliath’ and ‘Hondo’ by the talented artist, and my good friend, Matt Ritchie! The hand in the photos shows the incredibly small scale he worked in for these, cutting out the shapes in wood before painting. Mark my words, It won’t be long until you will be seeing Matt’s work soon gracing magazines like ‘Juxtapoz’ and giving the current ‘Masters of LowBrow Art’ a run for their money…thanks Matt!

–Mike

Here is a photo of the great Ted Machold, animatics editor, finalizing the Goliath Animatic! Last Friday I was at the Nickelodeon studio and was able to finally lock the animatic, after adding in the last of the re-take lines with the help of talented and patient audio engineer Petak, and talented and patient animatics editor Ted Machold! I was also able to meet Leticia Lacy in person (our fantastic color stylist!), and we were able to finalize the prop colors. Petak declined to have a “blog” photo opportunity, and I forgot to ask if Letcia wanted a photo on the blog, so maybe next time!

–Mike

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In my excitement to post these, I realized that I do not have the last name of the incredibly talented Leticia, who did these character colors for Goliath! For now, please enjoy, and I will add to this post as soon as I have the information in hand again… –Mike

[Read more…]]]> Goliath is almost ready for animation! Here is a character line-up showing the alien villians (1st four characters on the left) and humans of Goliath’s world (alien/villian design and clean-up by Erik Knutson; human/cat design by Mike Gray with clean-up by Doug Gray). All main characters had to be done with a five point turnaround, as the full Roger model sheet example shows…

–Mike