New Animated Series - Larkmart

Date January 20, 2011

Early last year, I started delivering a new series to the guys at Mondo Media. Wait, I work there! Weeeeiiiiirrrrrd.

So it’s titled Larkmart, and I’ve finished 4 episodes so far with many more planned. I’ve had big help on the animation front from Mark Salisbury and Scott Martin.

Digital Hollywood Panel Discussion

Date May 19, 2009

I was invited to take part in a panel discussion a month back, and the team captured my ramblings on video. I interject here an there throughout the panel, but if you’re really dying to see just my introductory comments, they’re at 25:40.

Competitive Awesome Logo

Date April 1, 2009

My funny-ass pals Mychal Utecht and Aaron Gingrich combine to form the unholy alliance known as The Competitive Awesome. They are funny and you will laugh. That is a scientific fact. More facts…. I designed their logo. They had a similar logo with the fist and the brass knuckles thing, I just updated it and added some bling. Here’s the result:

IMPORTANT!  I did not design Aaron and Mychal - just the logo

White House Dog Logo Design

Date January 20, 2009

If you watched last night’s special Kids’ Inaugural: We Are the Future on Disney Channel, you may have spotted my latest logo. The talented guys at Six Point Harness Studios in Hollywood created a handful of shorts that took us in and out of commercials. The animated shorts are titled America’s Next White House Dog. Spoofing FOX’s long-running hit show American Idol, the shorts imagine the lengths the Obamas might go through to pick their puppy. Here’s the design:

white house dog logo
 

Name Change: Aaron Southpark

Date January 2, 2009

2008 holiday cardFor our 2008 holiday card, my wife and I cracked on our family name. Click the image to see a bigger version. Daniela came up with the “Southparks” gag.

Interviewed at ActionScriptHero

Date January 2, 2009

actionsriptI was recently interviewed over at ActionScriptHero.org. Truth be told, I know squat about ActionScript, but that site crosses over into my wheelhouse - Flash animation. A big thanks to Pablo “aSH” Parrado, the founder of ActionScripHero.org, for inviting me to blab about myself.

Simpson Meets His Maker

Date September 7, 2008

Matt Groening at Comic-ConAt this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, I met a number of my friends and also a few of my heroes. But only one of these folks created the most famous Simpson family in the world, and I’m not talking about my parents. I was hanging out at the Spike and Mike booth when the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, walked up to say hello to Spike, and I quickly snapped this photo. I somehow managed to keep myself from saying “MY LAST NAME IS SIMPSON! YOU CREATED THE SIMPSONS - WOW!”

All Your Smurf Are Belong In Collection

Date September 6, 2008

A long time ago, in a decade far, far away, I created a tribute video to help feed the All Your Base phenomenon.  If you don’t know what this is, enjoy the original, and then watch my poorly animated short, The $20,000 Zig, alternately titled All Your Smurf Are Belong To Us (which has been viewed over a 250,000 times at newgrounds.com). It was recently included as part of CollegeHumor.com’s Web Celeb collection.

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Meeting Michael Eisner at the Webby Awards

Date March 3, 2008

I was at the Webby Awards in Laguna late last year, and I bumped into my pal and one-time boss, Dan Wolf, and the man we worked for back then - Michael Eisner. A photographer caught the moment and it wound up in the NYT today.

NYT - Eisner

Judging at the Aniboom Awards

Date February 23, 2008

2nd Annual Aniboom Awards.I was invited this year to be a judge in the 2nd Annual Aniboom Awards. If you’re not already aware of Aniboom, it’s a rapidly growing user-gen animation site that’s operated out of Israel. It’s not unlike Newgrounds.com, except that they aren’t so Flash-focused.

Several Flash-animated shorts were included amongst the finalists, which I detailed here at Coldhardflash.com.