Hot Chocolate Mornings

Michigan is very cold in the mornings, but on the plus side you get to curl up with a mug of hot chocolate and a good book. Which is quite possibly the best feeling on earth! 

Fanboy and Chum Chum

I had the wonderful privilege of meeting the creator of Fanboy and Chum Chum, Eric Robles, during the Savannah Film Festival. I've always liked watching the show for it's animation style, which went back to the classic Loony Tunes, but it was really inspiring to hear about how he got into the animation industry and the path that lead to Fanboy and Chum Chum. He also made me feel validated in watching abundant amounts of the classic Loony Tunes (like I really needed an excuse to anyway). I'd really like to see more CG shows and films take the Loony Tunes approach to movement. I think that it creates a depth and humor to cartoons that has been a little lacking since the discovery of CG. It's awesome that we now have the ability, through CG, to make things look and move realistically. But sometimes that makes us forget that they are still cartoons: pixels on a screen. They don't have to move realistically. We can make them do anything! That's the fun of being a cartoonist! Hopefully I can incorporate that into my own style more and more.