That New Show Smell

This week has been huge for new shows starting up, and Bill Ho and Raul Aguirre are no exception. After countless (and by countless, I mean at least six or seven) pitches, they hit an Oh Yeah! greenlight with their short, “Hero Heights”. If these guys don’t define persistence, I don’t know what does. Well, I could think of a few things, but I won’t go into them.

Bill Ho worked as a character layout artist on a little known cartoon called “The Simpsons”. He is also a storyboard artist on another little known show called “Family Guy”. Raul worked in the feature department of small company called Disney for 8 or 9 years, animating on films from Pocahontas, all the way up through Home on the Range. He also worked closely with Glen Keane on Treasure Planet.

You guys are impressive. Watching your pitches get better and better was so inspiring, not to mention, [Read more…]

Well! Here she is. The incredible Niki Yang. A storyboard artist on “Family Guy”, and now, during her haiatus, an Oh Yeah! creator! Don’t be frightened. She doesn’t bite or sting. I must say that I enjoy her short, “The Two Witch Sisters”, more and more every time I see it. It’s got witches, hungry rabbit pirates, and out of control bumble bees. I wish you could all see Niki pitch. It’s going to be difficult for me to envision anyone else doing the voices for her witch sisters! Congrats, Niki. We’re very glad to have you here. Buzz Buzz!

Today has been a day of many pitches at the studio. And there’s more to come this afternoon. This morning we were greeted by Tony DiStefano in to pitch from New York City. First up was his re-pitch of “The Butternuts”.

Next was “The Dog From Honeywell”.

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I’d like to welcome G. Brian Reynolds and Russ Harris to our group of talented filmmakers. Working from their home office in Indianapolis, they have just started production on their Oh Yeah! short, “Handycat”.

In 1995, Russ and Brian contributed to Cartoon Network’s What a Cartoon! with their short, “O. Ratz in ‘Rat on a Hot Tin Roof’“.

They have written, produced and directed 15 half-hour, direct-to-video and television specials which have been seen here and around the world. In addition, they did a direct-to-video/TV movie called “The Ugly Duckling’s Christmas Wish.”

More recently, they have been involved in a pre-school series of educationally oriented shorts starring Crawford the Cat, which had it’s premiere on Discovery Kids in the U.K.

Welcome aboard!

Yesterday was Anne Walker’s first day in her new office. She is starting production on her short, “Mind the Kitty”, for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Anne’s short will be produced in Flash at Renegade Animation, where Anne has previously worked on “HIHI Puffy Ami Yumi”. We are excited to have her here! Judging from her re-pitch yesterday, “Mind the Kitty” is going to be great. Anything involving kittens and chainsaw tag is all right with me!