Where did you say your studio was?
Hello everyone. We’re working on part of the Six Monsters project for Random Cartoons. We’ll be doing a minute of full on CG for the short.
“Where did you say your studio was?”
That’s probably the question I get asked the most when I meet other people in the animation industry. We’re located in rural Pennsylvania, in the Poconos. Think of every teen summer camp movie you have ever seen combined with a little bit of “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “The Andy Griffith Show”. That’s what it’s like here in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. I grew up here, so when it came time to start my own shop (after my time in the meat grinder of large studio CG feature animation), I checked to see if high speed internet found it’s way to the Poconos. It did, so I set up shop in the mountains.
While we are “rural”, our clients are not. The bulk of our work comes from southern California and New York. We do work for the video game, television, and feature film industries. We met Fred through a post he saw on Cartoon Brew about a short film we had made called “Opposites Jamboree”. We’ve pitched several ideas of our own for shorts, but none seemed to work out. Fred then asked us to work on this project (thanks Fred!).
Even though we are a CG studio, we’re going to do all we can to make the CG element of Six Monsters as well animated in the traditional sense as possible. I’ve gotten quite a bit of guidance along the way in my career so far, and we hope to bring the best of what we have to the table for this project.
Thanks!
Floyd Bishop
Bishop Animation
I’m the worst animator in this photo:
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On April 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Congratulations Floyd! One minute of RANDOM CARTOONS is better than none (Hey! That could be our new advertising slogan!).
On April 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Thanks Jerry. Yes, one minutes is better than nothing to be sure
On April 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
The worst animator in the photo? Or the third best? Welcome to Random!, Floyd.
On April 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Floyd, I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us! Thank you for being such a great supporter of the blogs…thanks for posting the Frank and Ollie pic too..so cool
On April 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Welcome to our project Floyd, it’ll be a blast. By the way readers, Jerry Beck (first comment above, creator of Random!’s Hornswiggle, and the Cartoon Brew-meister, first turned us on to Floyd through a blog post: http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_06.html
On April 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Hey Floyd,
Glad to see you involved with the folks at Frederator. I remember you mentioning somewhere (cg talk?)that you were pitching short ideas to them.
Good luck with the studio too. Sounds like the best of both worlds: Rural living and big city projects!
Art
On September 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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