The State of Affairs

Hey everybody, it’s been a while since I posted stuff here! I’ve been busy!

I’ve been embroiled in some freelance projects recently, none of which have been released, so I’ve been pretty light updating. I figured, why not take some time and explain what the hell’s been going on lately. If’n you care to read, it’s here; if not, hello hi I’m not dead.

The last 6 or 7 months have been interesting, and enough time has passed where I can divulge some cool stuff. First off, “Summer Rec” got courted to pitch to FX back in the early fall. A really cool guy, Damil Bryant, animator for Floyd County’s “Archer”, contacted me asking if I wanted to pitch the Summer Rec pilot to FX. I leapt at the opportunity but requested some time to prepare a pitch bible and a second script. One month later I was ready to go but by then, the programming slate for FX had filled for the up-coming year. So yeah, missed it, but I’m probably going to pitch it for reals this year if the stars align.

Yeah, that one week a while back of all the character bios were made for the pitch bible. Cuz why would I ever make something just for fun hurhur!

I might post some info about the second script soon. It’s called “Rolling Damnation” and it’s about the counselors setting out on an ill-fated road trip while Burch is on vacation. They ditch Norm and he spends the episodes in a boozy stupor dealing with his abandonment issues… It’s funnier than it sounds, if not a bit dark. I did the mock-up of Jim’s Car for the script and bible too. I got to flesh out 6 other episode concepts too for the pitch bible that I’ll have fun working out in the hopefully-near future with Zach Moore.

Mentioned a while back I moved to Brooklyn back in December. It’s been fun so far! Gotten to hang out with the incredibly talented and endlessly entertaining Nogfish and Ukinojoe. If you guys see this, it’s always great hanging out with you guys.

Other than all that, I tried out for Titmouse, Floyd County and Friends Night over the last few months. But today, I got hired at M. Wartella’s studio, Dream Factory Animation! I’m going to be helping animate his segments for Cartoon Network’s MAD tv series. I’m really looking forward to working for him. It should be really fun working there, if not incredibly work-intensive. (Fast turnaround schedule and such)

Yup, shit has been happening. I wish I had some of the projects I’ve finished to post but none of them are available yet. There’s another video for Code N’ Web I made, along with an animated segment I produced for a documentary about the health risks of high school football athletes. Both were a lot of fun to make, the football one involved a lot of sketchy, textured animation I’m looking forward to showing you guys. So yeah, that’s about it.

I’ll have real, not-just-writing-about-my-dumb-self stuff to post soon so stay tuned. For now, here’s the new They Might Be Giants music video, “Icky”, made by David Cowles and my former Edinboro professor, Jeremy Galante. Great job!