They Might Be Giants

Ealier this year I was lucky enough to work with illustrator David Cowles on a They Might Be Giants music video for a TMBG children's CD/DVD called Here Come The 123s. We worked out the concepts and storyboards together, David designed the characters, and I was lead animator.
I can't show you anything from the video, but you can order the album from Amazon.



I should also mention that I got a lot of friends to help me with the animation. I owe all them all, big time.

Joe Apel
Pedro Delgado
Nelson Diaz
Jeff Fletcher
Aya Fukuda
Casey Leonard
Jonathan Renoni
Thomas Sebasian Smolenski
Joe Stucky
Joe Quinones

Flight of the Conchords

I just discovered the show/band Flight of the Conchords. It's amazing. Also, one of the leads, Jemaine Clement, has one of those faces that you just have to try drawing. His features, as described in one episode, are "too deep set to be considered classically handsome," but are quite fascinating.







So, I ended up doing an embarrassing number of attempts (many of which are not shown here). He has a really unique nose, which I think I got okay in the front view, but in the 3/4 and profile angle it's just not working.

Comedian Caricatures

I don't read Harry Potter, but I do listen to them on audio books while I work. The problem is, during the final book I ran out of work, so I decided to do some caricatures while having Jim Dale read me the Harry Potter finale.

I started with Sarah Silverman because I had recently seen seen Jesus is Magic


And I thought Brian Posehn was great on the Sarah Silverman Program. So he was next.


At this point, I figured let's stick with comedians that had shows on Comedy Central, so I moved on to Stella and Michael Showalter.



My David Wain attempts didn't really exaggerate much.




My Michael Ian Black ended up looking more like Tom Cruise.

A bit of animation

Wow. I did a bit of animation I can actually show. How weird.

My friend Sean McBride does a weekly animated short for Salon that explores the interesting dynamic in the friendship between Sean and his friend Tony. Last week I helped out by animating the Sean character for the latest installment. It's not the most impressive thing I've ever done, but it was fun. Check it out.



Sean's on a roll. He also just got mentioned on Cold Hard Flash, and before that was on the front page on YouTube for his Student Academy Award winning Junior year animation project. He made this in one semester, how crazy is that?

Random drawings

I felt the need to do some purposeless drawings, so I jumped around Myspace drawing random people. I have no idea who any of them are.







I also saw Knocked Up. I thought it was very funny, but I do wonder about it a bit. Average guy gets hot girl by getting her pregnent. It sorta seems like a misguided fantasy a loser would come up with for how to get an attractive girlfriend. I saw the movie with all guys, I'm interested in what woman thought coming away from the movie.

Anyway, here are two drawings. The Hot Girl, and the Average Guy's friend.