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March 1, 2013

A Few Items of Note This was the rough I did for the final complete Rocko’s Modern Life DVD set for Shout Factory. I’m putting it up for auction so it can find a good and appreciative home. Check it...

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March 5, 2013

Grown Men in a Sweaty Booth to Record a Tiny Indie Animated Film. Yesterday morning, I was able to finally get together the dialog record for my indie film “A Fisherman and his Wife” ( formerly titled...

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March 19, 2013

Now that the voice tracks are laid ( pesky buggers) the slow grind of the wheel moves. My head is filled with mapping out an upcoming scene, to the “suck suck suck” of my wife’s breast pump. I start...

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April 17, 2013

Lazlo on Netflix! A few items of note. The first two seasons of Camp Lazlo was added to the repertoire offered up by Netflix. Very cool to finally view the episodes without commercials ( since they...

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May 9, 2013

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May 17, 2013

Dialog tracks are cleaned up and adjusted on Fish Head. Found that Sumatra coffee and just the right amount of new baby sleep deprivation allows for ample paranoid thoughts. Having fun putting...

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May 21, 2013

A Revival of Newt Street Pictures Newton P. Street in a Box In 1987, a producer named Newton Street found me while I was in dark alley behind a Cuban restaurant animating my first film “The Chore” and...

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June 1, 2013

PERSISTENCE OF VISION – Trailer from Kevin Schreck on Vimeo. My friend and former student Adam Paloian clued me in to this new film that came out about Richard Williams’s film “The Thief and the...

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June 4, 2013

Spike & Mike Kickstarter Project Back in the 80′s, I got my first taste of indie animation from Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation. And when my films came out, they included both in their fest....

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June 11, 2013

Danny Antonucci ( Lupo the Butcher, Ed, Edd and Eddy) gave me a great interview for my animation class, and I wanted to share his “4 C’s of Great Cartoons”. I wholeheartedly agree, and look at Danny...

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August 9, 2013

Rocko Anniversary Coming Up September 18th will be the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Rocko’s Modern Life on Nickelodeon. I will be celebrating offering up the remaining stash I have of Rocko,...

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August 21, 2013

I’ve been having to get up before the sun to get my work in on my film Fish Head. My head swims with first coffee and Irish drooling. I’ll complete some animation and say “shit. This is derivative....

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September 7, 2013

In the Luxury of Slow Going back and forth from the high volume fast world of television animation, to the slow handcrafted world of independent animation is like going from fast food to a gourmet meal...

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November 11, 2013

My daughter makes a lot of cupcakes these days. She has lots of books with many kinds of cupcakes. Pinto bean cupcakes. Brussell sprout cupcakes. My daughter doesn’t make those, although they are...

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December 3, 2013

I love characters. I love creating them, designing them and making them come alive. I’ve been very fortunate to do it for a living almost my whole life. In many facets, from animation, to books, to...

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December 5, 2013

Everyone keeps asking me “When will you be done with Fish Head?”. Sometimes I think the time I’m spending on this film is a direct rebellious response to the fast, go, go, go of commercial and...

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December 6, 2013

I sometimes get envious at forms of art that are created more instantaneously than animation. I recently read a bio on Jim Henson, where they would sometimes tape two entire “Muppet Shows” in a week....

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December 12, 2013

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January 12, 2014

A Proud Teacher I’m proud to say that one of my students from my 2011 Master class ( That the lectures I have available right now here) had his show picked up by Nickelodeon and it’s making it’s debut...

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January 18, 2014

Portrait of me hanging on the “Wall of Creators” at Nickelodeon studios. My former student Cole Rathacker was touring the Nickelodeon studios this week and took this pic of my portrait on the wall. I...

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