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It's been a long year, full of big changes.  Laura and I got married, then moved across the country to Berkeley.  I moved out here to work on Social and Mobile games; life in Berkeley also has me cycling on the weekends, going to farmers' markets, and (after reading Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller) becoming increasingly interested in the processes that go into the production of fine Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Although I'm not (yet) allowed to discuss with any specificity the project I was hired to work on back in March, I can say that I'm excited about this issue of Juxtapoz!

Here is a in-progress detail of a drawing (one of a series) on wood:

ESPN Sports Bar and Grill

I've been away for a bit, but I can finally share what I've been busy working on for the past year! Green Shoe Animation has worked with Playdom to create a new game: ESPN Sports Bar and Grill.

You are the proprietor a bar and must keep your customers happy by keeping their appetites and thirsts sated, displaying real live sport games (featuring live updates), and decorating your bar with sports paraphenalia. You can predict the outcomes of games, listen to ESPN radio, and more!

I don't yet have permission to share any of my specific designs or animations that I contributed to the game, so in the meantime, please join me on facebook and play the game! (And don't forget to add me as your neighbor, of course!)

3 Character Designs

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Three early character designs for an animated project I'm working on with Aaron Hawkins. I cannot discuss the project in much detail, but the overall design ultimately took on a different, more simplified look, inspired in some part on the stylized designs that came out of the UPA in the 1950s. And while we're on the subject, Amid Amidi's beautiful book Cartoon Modern collects much of the work from this era--it is a beautiful book and I highly recommend it!