Tony in print !!!!

Recently John K. had a great post on his blog with the old Tony.
Here are some of the print adds that were launched about the same time.
all images were published in Life Magazine and are between 1955-1962
I really hope you enjoy them !


This is the very first time Tony showed up ..

Inspired by the Motion Graphics

That little film got me all inspired to do some motion graphics again

Lou Romano Does the New Yorker

My good Friend Lou Romano has done this week New Yorker cover !
WOW what a great piece and if your interested in buying a Print the New Yorker has them for sale
This is nothin but Inspiration ! Great job

Just for fun...

The Big Magic Book Pilot Promo

We just finshed are 22min pilot !!! Boy o Boy am I excited on the way it turned out !
The Big Magic Book has been a fantasic project. and I've been very lucky to be a part of it .
So it's on to get this sucker picked up.!!

A just Finshed Title Seq

We just finshed the Title Seq. for THE BIG MAGIC a puppet show Piolt that Ive been very Proud to be a part of ..
This was only done by three people in are spare time .
big thanks to Ann Walker
and to Peter Michail for all there help!
And even a bigger thanks to the THE BIG MAGIC BOOK creator and director Ryan Belgarde

One day someone will bite...

You all know my love for cereal character icons . About a year ago I tried with the help of my good friends to try to reintroduce the Franken-berry cereal Gang . We came super close on this one it went always to General mills via saatchi and saatchi and was all set to do a series of Webisode. at the last minute they pulled out .

O well .... We keep throwing it against the walls one day it will stick


Here is the Gang Design by the Great Craig Kellman




Here is a Pass of poses done by Great Ann Walker




And here are some Boo poses done by Great Peter Michail


I hope you enjoy them !

small painting I did last night . .......

A Green Beaver and a Purple Frog ????

Sure anything is possible in the Big Magic Book .
I Created these puppets for two great friends of mine for one of the Seq. of the Puppet project Big Magic Book !
Also these puppets were created using ProjectPuppet.com patterns with a little bit of modification

On the Softer Side.......

Awhile back I posted some stills from this.... here is a part of it in motion. The whole piece has been playing at children film festivals for awhile now. I would love to here what you guys and gals think !

Just had a Blast doing this kinda of painting .


This was Done in Flash and Painter ( A great combo that I hope to use more of )

What's Next.........

So my time here at Renegade Animation has come to a end what a fantastic 8 years at one studio it's been .
We've simply done some amazing thing's and it was great to be part of them !
So I'm keeping my Eye out for anything interesting to move on to.

Thanks
There is so much more to do!!!

Nate Pacheco

Care for a Drink ......?

My latest puppet . Chapman the bartender! He was created using the pattern from Projectpuppet.com

my new Puppet! Ernie's 2nd cousin on his father's Side

Wasson the REALTOR !!!

My Sock puppet !! I had a blast working on this Guy!

Here is the Elmo I made for my little boy...

Here is one more monster I did!........

here is a Yeti from Hollywood that I made !!!

BTW This was made with a Projectpuppet.com pattern , If you don’t have them Buy them it will change how you make your puppets !
Thanks for your time gang

My Green Monster!!!

I love just sitin on the sofa and Painting.

A Commercial done in one shot!....

Here is a spot that Darrell and I did awhile back
It was a fake commercial done to prove a point that
You don't need 30 cuts in a 30 second commercial to make the spot effective.

Done by Kids?...

Awhile back one of are episode came up a 1 min short, So they asked me to fill the gap
This is what I came up with! O yeah there was a deadline of 3 hours .

Just for fun.....

One of my better designs...

Saturday morning my lil baby girl decided to show up!
Her name is Vespa Marie and I think she's beautiful!

Digging up some old stuff...

Before I joined Renegade I use to Design Effects. Here is some stuff I did for the South Park movie way back in 99' .

Another title Seq. that got canned!

Color keys....

These were inspired by the way Lou does his keys. I just wish I had his sense of color. O yeah these again are from The Wild...

Stills From Title Seq.

I pulled these flash frames from the Hi Hi puffy show title seq that I did.
They go by so fast in real time I thought you might what to see them.