EVERYTHING by David O'Reilly

Animator/Designer/Dark Magician David O'Reilly is working on another  videogame.
First he made MOUNTAIN.
Now he's making EVERYTHING:

In Everything, every single thing is a playable character; 

if you can see it, you can be it. 

The game lets you see the entire universe from

 the point of view of the thousands of things in it. 

In other words, there is no distinction between you and the world, 

or between a level and a character. 

All these things experience and interact with the world differently.

Everything lets you be anything you want. 

If you ever wanted to see what it’s like to 

be a horse, or a paperclip, or the sun, this is for you. 

Your main power in the game is Being 

(there are more but I won’t ruin the surprise).

For me, ANYTHING by David O'Reilly is  true religion.
It's uniquely unique

dangerously challenging
and
mouth-dryingly  mind-bending.

So I'm looking forward to EVERYTHING.
More about EVERYTHING  can be found over HERE!

BACK AT COLFAX FAMILY READING NIGHT

Each year

The Colfax Charter Elementary

Read-A-Thon

finishes off with 

its sooper exciting

FAMILY READING NIGHT!

And it was a great line-up this year!

I started out by reading this to the kids:

But for some reason

NONE OF THE KIDS UNDERSTOOD JAPANESE!

So instead I read my book:

It was pretty action-packed:

Here's a short video of the last part:

Fortunately I brought the English version of Pigs Make Me Sneeze to read, too. Because what's family reading night without some Mo Willems, amiright? It's so much fun reading to big group of kids and their grow-ups! Hope you read to yours sooner loud, too!

WHEN THE KND BRAVED ATLANTA

Millions of years ago while the 

Earth was still cooling after its creation,

I took a trip to Cartoon Network in

Atlanta to do some promotion 

for Codename: Kids Next Door.

While there, our highly 

powerful executive

Khaki Jones 

took me to 

Turner Field,

the home of the

Atlanta Braves,

She said there was something 

I just HAD to see.

When we walked into the stadium,

I could see,

just beyond that statue of 

Abraham Lincoln

(or whoever that is)

a treehouse.

Then I got closer and totally pooped my pants.

<GASP>

A sooper huge 

KND TREEHOUSE!

And the KND wearing

Atlanta Braves hats!

There was also a sooper huge

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends:

But the 

REAL

thrill was going into the 

playspace inside.

It was a massively interactive playspace complete with a 

KND Treehouse to climb around in!

GAH!

Exoskeleton Dexter!

SO COOL!

The shadowy foliage really made it feel like a treehouse!

I have no idea what's in the stadium now.

But back then,

this was one of the coolest things in my life!

KIDS NEXT DOOR REUNION DINNER IN NYC!

So whilst in NYC,

we put together a little 

KND crew reunion!

And where better to have it than

PHEBE'S TAVERN,

where we had the premiere party way back in 2002.

Starting from front left and rockin' clockwise:

Kevin Kobasic (character design)

T. Mackie Evans (character design)

Abigail Nesbitt (storyboard)

John Allemand (BG design)

Maurice Fontenot (storyboard)

Vanessa van der Baan (BG color)

Mike Cavallaro (BG color)

Grace Lu (color supervisor)

Erin Finnegan (production coordinator)

Bruce Knapp (line producer)

John "Quack" Leard (storyboard)

Robert Kopecky (prop design)

And somehow,

Alison Wilgus (colorist, writer, social media guru)

disappeared when the picture was taken.

Also totally missed were

Gideon Kendall (BG design)

Chrysoula Artemis (colorist)

Andy Rheingold (writer)

Rob Smith (inker)

Marcus Pauls (production manager)

Susan Holden (executive producer)

David Starr (executive producer)

and other assorted folks

who couldn't make it or somehow 

got lost in the shuffle.

It was pretty pretty emotional getting to 

hang out with what is inarguably the sooper best crew 

a show could have had.

Love you guys and miss you madly.

TABLING IT AT MO'S HOUSE

Last weekend I made a pilgrimage to

Knuffle Manor,

home of Mo Willems,

to help on a sooper secret project.

But it's no secret that when you go to

Knuffle Manor,

you're encouraged to

draw on the dinner table.

And I did just that with an 

incredible group of creative people:

Hillary Price,

who has been writing and drawing

RHYMES WITH ORANGE

for a thousand years

did this:

Her partner Kerry,

who claims to be a science teacher

and not an artist

drew this wonderful friend:

Here's A bird by Mo

(which I totally stole the next morning)

Datsun-powered painter

Scott M. Fisher

rocked this evil beauty:

And because he's awesome he always brings 

me an artist proof of the latest 

Magic the Gathering card

he's done:

Okay...

So I drew this dumb dinosaur thing:

And then dumb ol' 

Tony DeTerlizzi

has to go and make the sooper most beautiful drawing

of a dragon drawing my dumb dragon

while Mo's dog watches:

I TOTALLY took Tony's drawing home with me because

OMG!!!

Master of marquetry

Silas Kopf 

and

mega movie producer

Adam Spielberg

(no relation to Adam from the Bible)

collaborated on drawing an entire cast of characters and 

writing a story about them, 

most of it too hot for blogging:

And if I didn't mention there were enchiladas,

there were definitely enchiladas:

It's always creative people heaven

at Mo and Cheryl's parties.

I could have spent two days talking to each person there.

But the rent at Mo's place ain't cheap.

So here I am back in LA.

But I can't wait to go back!