Congratulations, Titmouse

We watched the season premiere of Super Jail at Bar Matchless in Brooklyn last night, and we had a kick ass time. Congratulations, Titmouse! We did it!!

"Super Jail!" Season 2

For the past 4 months, I have been working as an animator for the second season of the wildly wonderful "Super Jail!" Back in 2008, I was an intern for the first season. I have to say, with the talented Mike Carlo as animation director, and Titmouse Studio at the helm for this season, they have certainly raised the bar on Christy Karacas' masterpiece.

I think my coworkers will agree that the most fun characters to work with are the childishly demented Warden, and the loyal but jittery Jared. I love both these guys like children, I can't pick my favorite! I love the Warden for his over confidence, and Jared for his lack of confidence.

2 days a week, we have Dallies. Dallies are when we go into the office and view our work load for either approval, notes, revisions, etc. It's so much fun to see everyone's take on the characters. Sometimes I will study my coworkers animation, and learn how to make my scenes as beautiful and crazy as theirs.

The following are thumbnail drawings for some of the scenes I animated. I wiped out the dialogue so I would not reveal too much story info. Why spoil the surprise?!

The first time I animated the Warden, I kinda screwed up his design. Christy and Mike told me to keep his glasses always round, and to keep his figure long. I made up these drawings so I would NEVER forget.

"Super Jail!" season 2 begins April 3rd at 12:00am on Adult Swim. I hope you will have fun watching it as much as I had fun working on it. But I will say this, one of the toughest parts of the job...

...is clean up. They deserve a medal.

ADVENTURE TIME!!!!

I am super excited about Adventure Time coming to cartoon Network this spring. Plus there has been a number of REALLY talented artists submitting their take of Pendelton Ward's wild and wonderful characters, so I wanted to be part of the fun!

Here are some extra goodies.

It's gonna be ALGEBRAIC!

Beautiful Burbank

I visited Burbank this week in search for job oppurtunies. Good ol' Fred Seibert helped me get appointments with very important people, such as Eric Homan from Frederator, Mark Taylor and Monique Beatty from Niceklodeon, Brian Miller and Jennifer Pelphrey from Cartoon Network, and Steve Hulett from the Animation Guild. They were all so nice!




This is the hotel I stayed at, the Safari Inn. It looked like a motel to me. Oh well. I had to sleep somewhere.

Some parts of Burbank were ok. Some were absolute gorgeous. My friend Josh Jularbal was gracious enough to take me around. His friends and I went to a really nice museum called the LACMA.

Cartoon Network was cool. They had these large statues of their characters! I should have taken pics!


I never eaten at a Big Boy before!



It was a nice place, except for this fellow. =)




Nickelodeon was a really cool studio. They had lots of art work and toys all over the place. And it was a nice walking distance from my hotel!




If I do get to go back to Burbank, I REALLY want to work on Mighty B. I love that cartoon! I drew these to get a feel for it.








Mighty B copyright of viacom, nickelodeon.


I loved drawing people on the plane. The fellow on the right was one of the people working at the hotel. Looked eccentric.





All in all, I had a very productive week. I hope the next time I go to Burbank, I'll be there doing my dream job, where ever it leads me!