GIVE IT!

TANGENTS!

I like

TUMBLR.

There's a 

TON

of 

inspiring

art stuff

to

ENDLESSLY

scroll

through.

I especially like

the educational stuff.

For instance,

Chris Schweizer's

Guide to Spotting Tangents

The long line is when a line from one object runs directly 
into the line of another.  This is the tangent that everybody knows.  
The one that’s easiest to spot, easiest to avoid.  

For a lot of folks, this is the only thing meant 
when one refers to a “tangent.” 

I'm not familiar with 

Mr. Schweizer

or his work

but I like him already.

Anyone that can track down and kill a

yucky tangent is alright in my book.

He's mainly talking about 

tangents in comics,

but these rules apply to

animation

storyboards

and layout, too.

A good part of my day is spent watching animation

 that comes back from overseas studios

and finding ways to fix problems like these:

This is just a teeny taste

of what 

Mr. Schweizer

is out to learn ya.

To see the whole post

and really go on a 

TANGENT SAFARI

head on over

HERE!

BRAVEST WARRIORS!

So you've seen

BRAVEST WARRIORS,

right?

It's a

Frederator Studios

web series by

ADVENTURE TIME

creator

Pendleton Ward

No...

I'm not working on the show.

But I 

AM

doing an illustration 

for this book:

BRAVEST WARRIORS: THE SEARCH FOR CATBUG 

An amazing collection of artists venture to multiple dimensions to help you in...

THE SEARCH FOR CATBUG! 

Catbug ate some weird new cubes of food that caused him to lose 

what little control he already had over his jump abilities! 

Now he’s careening through dimensions, unable to stop! 

Help the Bravest Warriors travel the galaxy and find Catbug. 

Just don’t eat any of those cube snacks or you might end up lost too!

Save your excitement, though!

It's not coming out until

Summer of 2014

from

Viz Media's

Perfect Square 

imprint.

But I'm here to 

tell you it's gonna be 

block rockin'.

More info coming soon

but

you can read the latest over

HERE!

TITMOUSE SMASH PARTY 2013, YO!

Hi! I'm a computer printer!
But I'm not just ANY PRINTER!
I'm Maxwell Atoms'  printer!
 And he LOVES ME!
How do I know? Because on Saturday he took me to a PARTY! Looks fun, right?
Wait...
What?
He's going to...  ... ...
no
NO WAY!
Max (that's what I call him) would NEVER  smash me.
Never in a million years.
He brought me to  Titmouse Smash Party to hang out with a ton of really fun people:

We had some root beers and talked with

tons of awesome animation-type people

and got some cheesy tater tots

at the food trucks:

And yeah...

we watched some poor, unfortunate

stuff get smashed:

We even got a free t-shirt:

What FUN we had!

And 

NO.

He did

NOT

smash me.

Wait... What? Where is he, you ask? Um... I don't know. Max told me to wait here.

He said he was coming right back.

That was on Saturday.

Do you think he's okay?

Maybe I should call the police.

...

...

I'm so cold.

ONCE UPON A TIME ON MAD TV

The  KND make an  appearance in this fun MAD TV sketch: And I know  ALL the characters are off-model... But jeeeeeez, Numbuh One's proportions are WAY WAY WAY OFF!

I KNOW THAT VOICE WORLD PREMIERE!

Remember when I showed 

you the trailer for 

the work-in-progress documentary

about animation

voice actors

called

I KNOW THAT VOICE?

If you don't remember

(and are too lazy to click the link)

you oughta know that 

the film is the baby of

sooper awesome voice actor

John DiMaggio

aka

Bender

Jake the Dog

Joctopus

Shnitzel

Four Arms

Dr. Drakken

etc etc etc

And after a couple years,

a million hours of interviews,

lots of writing, editing 

and much love...

it's

DONE!

Last week was the

sooper exclusive

WORLD PREMIERE

at the

Egyptian Theatre

in Hollywood, USA

so 

Mr. Maxwell Atoms 

and I

disguised ourselves as 

voice actors and snuck in!

It was quite the gala

red carpet 

event:

And 

EVERY

sooper famous

voice actor

was there...

but we hung out with

Dana Snyder 

instead:

Mr. DiMaggio

and his co-producers got up to say a couple words

before the film started:

And then it was time for the screening,

which, of course, rocked.

Seriously.

EVERYONE 

is in the movie.

Tom Kenny

Hank Azaria

Rob Paulsen

Kevin Michael Richardson

Billy West

Jim Cummings

Dee Bradley Baker

Grey DeLisle

Bill Farmer

Bob Bergen

Mark Hamill

Cree Summer

Lauren Tom

and

THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM 

ON THE INTERNET TO LIST THEM ALL!

Some highlights:

Dee Bradley Baker making monster sounds

with the use of a jar for extra resonance

Bob Bergen slowly breaking down,

syllable by syllable 

how Porky Pig says a word

and then impossibly stringing a bunch together.

Jim Cummings and Kevin Michael Richardson

challenging each other with dueling Mike Tyson

impersonations

Jess Harnell's story about a skeptical kid 

who refused to believe he played Wacko

and to be honest, 

THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM 

ON THE INTERNET TO LIST THEM ALL!

 What made it really fun were all the

woops

woots

and 

cheers

that occurred when an actor came on screen.

The VO community is a very

generous group and

EVERYONE

got excited to

see their peers on the big screen.

Afterwards, there was a brief 

discussion with the producers and a couple of the actors

which was sooper fun:

from right to left:

Tom Kenny

Maurice LaMarche

Rob Paulsen

John DiMaggio

Andrea Romano

director Lawrence Shapiro

and 

producer Tommy Reid

Keep an eye on your theaters for

I KNOW THAT VOICE!

It's

DELICIOUS!

Just like

voice director

Kris Zimmerman's

brain:

HOW MANY MORE SKETCHBOOKS MUST DIE?

I killed another sketchbook.

In cold, hard graphite.

I'd ask you to stop me

before I kill again.

But we know that's

unpossible.

This one went fast.

From

August 17th

to

October 30th, 2013.

It started out with this

decal mash-up:

The title page got a bit smushy.

I prolly should start spraying fixative

on the pages I paint on.

Or this happens:

This happened after I saw 

Gravity:

And then this happened after a snack:

The Kings lost to the Flames

in the last two minutes

of this game.

Boooooo!

I guess this is

The Dude's 

younger brother:

When I cut something into a sketchbook

(like the above business card)

I like to find something to do with the piece 

that's on the opposite side of the page.

Like this:

This guys started showing up occasionally.

I have no idea who he is:

When I was sick I drew germs:

There's that guy again:

And then it was time to 

squeeze the last bit

of life out

of this

sketchbook.

And while this one is still warm  

I'm onto the next victim.

Help me.