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Friday, June 13, 2025

No Kings!

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As mad men hell bent on destroying the country charge on relentlessly, what's an animator to do?  Animate! I created this in a week.  A ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Animatic Theater presents "The Dutch Green"

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 Wow, it's been a year since I posted something here.   So what have I been up to?  Something I call "Animatic Theater".     ...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The List of 1984

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    Here is my water-stained program from the 1984 Character Animation show, held in the tiny Bijou Theater at CalArts .  According to the m...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Starting with a Bang

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Caricatured here, a 1984 version of Steve Moore, Dan Jeup, Mike Genz, and Fred Cline   40 years ago this month, I was winding up my junior y...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

My Peeps

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I went to kindergarten with a girl named Lisa.  I would sometimes go to her house after school while my mom was off running errands.  I had ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Twelve Pack

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I recently had a freelance job designing labels for Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company of Cherry Hill, New Jersey.  When they opened in 20...
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Sunday, November 26, 2023

"I'm Marty."

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Meeting Marty at Nickelodeon.   In January of 2017,  Nickelodeon had just finished construction on a brand new, shiny building at the corner...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

The Basement at Gimbel's

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Gimbel's department store, Philadelphia, 1905. When the calendar turns to August, my mind always goes to the back-to-school days of chil...
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Sunday, May 28, 2023

The Legend of Bill Moore

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Bill Moore, 1981.                 Photo by Chris Wahl Thursdays at CalArts were brutal.  Getting to class early to pin our assignments on t...
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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Godspeed, Allen Stovall

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May 8th marked the latest premature loss to our hunched and goofy community with the death of Allen Stovall at the age of 69.  He was a vete...
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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Recipes for Pie - The Throwing Kind

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  Natalie Wood gets served in "The Great Race" On a primal level, what's funnier than a pie in the face?  Pie fights were ubiq...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

PeaceTime: A Soaring Eagle

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   I am quite pleased to present my new short, "PeaceTime: A Soaring Eagle".  It's the second of what I hope to be a series of...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

One for the Ageism

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There comes a day when, sitting for a haircut, we get a long look in the mirror and see one of our parents looking back at us.  Horrified, w...
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Monday, November 14, 2022

Bob the Dragon

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The 1983-84 school year at Cal Arts was my favorite, and my student film that year, "Bob the Dragon" is a reflection of that.  I ...
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Monday, October 3, 2022

From My Project Graveyard: The Owl & the Pussycat

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  In 2001, producer and dear friend Leslie Hough called about developing a feature pitch for "The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Ow...
Monday, September 12, 2022

The "No A-hole" Policy*

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      I got a call from Mona Gurgley, a recruiter from Upstart Studios, feeling out my interest in working for The Next Really Big Deal in a...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

So Long, Eggman

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  I first learned of Ralph Eggleston 's death in James Baker's wonderful tribute post . I didn't know he'd been ill, so it c...
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

PeaceTime for the Ukraine

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Over the past year, I have submitted my children's meditation short "PeaceTime: A Royal Frog" to dozens of film festivals all...
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Monday, April 25, 2022

The List of 1982

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Program for the 1982 show, designed by Fred Cline. Forty years ago this week, I took part in my first CalArts Character Animation Show.  Th...
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Monday, February 21, 2022

Diversion con Rinones!

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In my last post, Fun with Kidneys! , you heard about the new informational short I produced for the non-profit Renal Support Network , featu...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Fun with Kidneys!

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How does one make the subject of kidney disease entertaining?  That was the challenge when Lori Hartwell approached me about making a short...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

The Sinking of A-113

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S.O.S. to all CalArts Alum on land and sea!  If you're looking for an end-of-year charitable donation and want to support the arts (yes!...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Sweet Dreams, Katie

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  Kathleen Quaife , one of the best 2D effects animators that ever lived, passed away in her sleep last week, way too young.  I first met Ka...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Jill Daniels' Art in the BAG

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Awesome art director Jill Daniels has personal art on display now at the Baldwin Avenue Gallery, a.k.a the BAG in Sierra Madre.  Between he...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

The Freshman

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    CalArts I.D., 1981 40 years ago this week, my journey in character animation began.  I've been thinking about it recently, like look...
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