So back in the day, this would’ve been posted over on the Teenage Roblog. I’ve pilfered it for today, though, in order to squeeze it in before Halloween 2005 is over. It’s a nifty piece of fan art by one of Robot’s biggest fans, XJKenny. Spooky stuff. Thanks, XJKenny.
Here�s a picture Melissa shot at last week�s re-pitch of the Teapot! storyboard. It shows some of the key talent creator Greg Eagles has assembled for his crew so far: Bill Flores, Greg, Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy, Robert Alvarez, and Alex Almaguer. I’m sure Greg and Dahveed will post more about these guys, but I wanted to introduce you briefly to these artists, highlighting their past work for Frederator.
Alex Almaguer. Alex is busy polishing up the �Teapot!� storyboard. His relationship with Frederator goes back a bit � as a storyboard revisionist he was one of the key artists on My Life as a Teenage Robot. (He�s also newly married to the former Holly Kim, a color stylist over on Frederator�s Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!)
Bill Flores also put (and, once in a while, continues to put) his time in at Teenage Robot. Many of the fantastic background designs you see on the show are his work. Like Alex, Bill�s currently over [Read more…]
It’s been a busy week. We saw the big re-pitches for “Adventure Time’ and “Teapot!”, sat in on a couple of pitches by a few of our favorite artists and people, including Alex Kirwan, Eric Robles, and Pat Ventura among others, and were in a bunch of meetings about something we’re working on outside Oh Yeah! but which may be just as cool. Last night Frederator was out in full force for a smashing party celebrating the end of series production of The Fairly OddParents. It was in downtown LA at the ultra-hip Hotel Figueroa. Most importantly, I got to hear Fred’s story of his having to kick Eric Clapton out his seat at the Concert for Bangladesh. We’re continuing to have a blast here, and are looking forward to the next two weeks which will have us put five new shorts in production. Stick with us.
PS The image above is from “Krunch and the Kid” by Adam Henry who [Read more…]
If there’s one word most often bandied about in describing “Hornswiggle” creator Jerry Beck, it’s, um, diffident. He’s way too shy to let vistors to this site know that he’s got his mitts in many animation-related pies, including the authoring of a stack of books on the subject. Well, his latest tome, The Animated Movie Guide, is hot off the presses. If you’re a cartoon fan, you owe it to yourself to pick up one or three today.
So lately I’ve had Calvin & Hobbes on the brain. Last week I picked up The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, a three-book set weighing about 700 lbs. It’s a blast re-visiting these strips, a lot of which I haven’t read since they were first published, way back before I was born. More notably, it’s been made even clearer lately that Bill Watterson and his strip have to be - along with John K and the Simpsons - one of the top three influences on the creators who pitch us cartoons. And with good reason. If I had a dollar for every time an artist said of their characters, “Yeah, they’re kind of like Calvin & Hobbes”, I’d retire to that cabin in Montana. If you haven’t re-immersed yourself lately in C&H, I encourage you to do so at your earliest convenience.
As a high-powered executive, I often feel the responsibility to toss a few euros to the creative rabble in the local artistic community as a show of support. Call me a Patron of the Arts, I guess. Many, many artists have been able to scratch out an existence thanks to my generosity.
