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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

  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...

   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...

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...

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 ...

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

      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...

  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...

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

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...

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

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

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!...

  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...

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...

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

 By Kirk Wise Was it the incessantly farting ogre that first tipped me off? Or the flat plywood sets that looked like a poorly-lit episode o...

 My old pal Jeff texted me last week, asking if I'd heard of a certain boutique animation studio, one that Wile E. Coyote might hire to ...