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Animator/Filmmaker 😉 writer on Scavengers Reign 🙂 Green Street Pictures

Los Angeles, CA

https://t.co/T6u8xStR72

Joined January 2012

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@SeanBuckelew

Sean Buckelew

7 months

The show I’ve spent the last few years working on as a writer and co-executive producer now has a trailer! Check out SCAVENGERS REIGN October 19th on Max.

@StreamOnMax

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After their deep-space freighter is damaged, the stranded crew of the Demeter must fight to survive on a beautiful yet dangerous planet. #ScavengersReign premieres October 19 on Max.

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Sean Buckelew

3 years

Finishing animation during this crazy ass week, at least it kind of matches the vibe.

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4 years

flock of bird assets

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6 months

When we were working on the pilot episode of Scavengers Reign, I had a bit of extra time at the end and animated a few random shots - here's a little thread:

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Sean Buckelew

4 years

script: he lights a cigarette and takes a drag. me: easy enough. weeks of animation work later:

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

Going through this Aladdin bluray frame by frame is revealing some really amazing drawings.

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Sean Buckelew

6 months

The final three episodes of the first season of SCAVENGERS REIGN drop at midnight (10/9) - huge thank you to everyone who has been watching it so far, we really hope you love how the season ends. #ScavengersReign

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6 months

Some shots I animated from episodes 4-6 of Scavengers Reign. New episodes drop tomorrow!

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4 years

A truly bold opinion, but boy is he gonna get ROASTED!

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A few more little random shots from episodes two and three of Scavengers Reign. The actual animation talent working on the show was so unbelievable, I was lucky just to get to see their work every day during the process. New episodes out tomorrow on Max!

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Sean Buckelew

1 year

The script said “he lights a cigarette and takes a puff” and it became the most complicated shot I had to animate on my short film DRONE -

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Sean Buckelew

7 years

I had a blast animating on this San Diego Zoo spot at Gentleman Scholar - check it out!

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

I had a blast animating some sleepy, dreamy trains and landscapes on the new @trubaanimation video for @UMO , directed by Greg Sharp with a crew of amazingly talented folks! Check it out

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Sean Buckelew

4 years

If you're like me, you probably have a million tabs open with things you haven't gotten around to, but since people may have an overabundance of computer time right now, I thought I'd share a thread of some independent animated shorts that are longish. Thread below👇

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7 years

An ode to a lost age of Internet romance, my new film LOVESTREAMS is now online for your viewing pleasure 🙂😐🙁😢 -

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Sean Buckelew

1 year

My animated short film DRONE is live on Youtube:

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DRONE | Animated short film about drones, AI, and live-streaming on...

An AI drone with a conscience that changes everyone.A short animated film about a malfunction at a CIA press event that causes a Predator drone installed wit...

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Sean Buckelew

5 years

I'm teaching an animation class and was wondering if anyone had a link to a resource on those big warped 2D perspective pan BGs. Can be from a Disney movie, anime, independent, whatever! The more distorted, the better!

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4 years

As promised, here's a little list of gems from animated short film history. Tried to stay off the beaten path as often as I could, but couldn't help slipping in some classics that are personal favorites. Thread below👇

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6 months

Holy shit.

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Eric Cartman

6 months

Scavengers Reign on @StreamOnMax is the coolest fucking animated show in a long time. Go watch it NOW! (after watching South Park: Joining the Panderverse, of course)

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Sean Buckelew

1 year

My independent animated short film DRONE will be premiering on Youtube on Feb 5th @ 7pm PST - . Here's a preview clip:

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6 months

New SCAVENGERS REIGN episodes Thursday - can't wait for everyone to see!! 🪲🐛🪐🚀

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Joseph Bennett

@josephbennett00

6 months

#ScavengersReign

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I wrote an in-depth article about the process of making DRONE, hoping it might be inspiring to anyone trying to make an independent animated short. Read it here:

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Sean Buckelew

5 years

Im begging all my US animation friends to see I LOST MY BODY when it comes out in theaters.

@cartoonbrew

cartoonbrew.com - Animation News

5 years

Netflix Sets Theatrical Release Dates For ‘I Lost My Body’ And ‘Klaus’

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Getting into the flow working on this movie. There's a lot of dialogue and subtle acting and screens - and sometimes all three at once!

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One of the first shots that got animated on DRONE was also one of the most complicated. It was a test to see how complicated the lighting had to be for the characters to feel blended with the background. Full film ➡️

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6 months

New episodes drop Thursday.

@josephbennett00

Joseph Bennett

@josephbennett00

6 months

#ScavengersReign

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Sean Buckelew

5 years

I like working in Flash because the output is so basic and then doing a lot of dressing up in After Effects. Here's a before and after from a style test for my new film.

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We've been hard at work putting together this theatrical program of animated shorts. It's basically impossible to see a lot of these shorts outside of festivals, and I think they're really really good, and we're excited to be able to share them with a lot more people.

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Endless lip-syncing and floating heads in this new film.

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Sean Buckelew

2 years

Sharing some of the small animation retakes I did on Kill Team Kill in the 3rd season of Love, Death and Robots. Under the brilliant animation direction of @benjybrooke , who assembled the most insane team of talent to bring this thing together. [1/4]

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Sean Buckelew

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This behind-the-scenes Scavengers Reign video features a ton of the incredible rough animation from the show, and a long interview with the boys:

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Making Of SCAVENGERS REIGN (2023) - Behind The Scenes Talk About...

"Scavengers Reign (2023)" Making Of | Behind The Scenes | Creating Animated Storyboards | Animation Breakdown | Interview With Co-Creator Joe Bennett, Co-Exe...

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Sean Buckelew

2 years

So excited to finally be able to talk about this amazing project I’ve been working on with the most fantastic team ever. And the best part of all is working with my besties @josephbennett00 and @charleshuettner

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HBO Max Orders ‘Scavengers Reign’ To Series; Adult Animated Sci-Fi To Premiere In 2023

HBO Max Orders 'Scavengers Reign' To Series; Adult Animated Sci-Fi To Premiere In 2023

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Sean Buckelew

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I wrote a little article about artists making independent animated films on their own in Los Angeles. It's mainly a survey/behind-the-scenes look at a bunch of films that I really love, and how they came to be. Hope you enjoy!

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5 years

Trying out those high IQ animation layering techniques.

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Sean Buckelew

1 year

DRONE will be released this Sunday (2/5) at 7pm PST on YouTube . Here’s a clip where Newton the drone malfunctions during the press rollout - w/ @FinnWittrock and @JimTrueFrost1 .

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Insanely honored to be on this list as a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship this year.

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On April 9, 2019, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 168 scholars, artists, and writers.

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You can still catch Lovestreams and the entire Strangers anthology from #LNWC right here -

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Great breakdown thread of these Akira pencil tests that have made every 2D animator feel like a total fraud for the last 30 years.

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Art-Eater ➡️⬇️↘️🐲👊

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Alright, let's take a closer look at some of these pencil tests from Akira! Look at this amazing tracking shot! That tunnel! I bet a lot of folks assume this was 3D CGI but NOPE. It was hand drawn! #Akira #Akira30 #アキラ #PencilTest #2DAnimation #Sakuga

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Tucked into the corner of a shot in my new film, you'll see me working shamelessly to appeal to zoomers.

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7 months

Surprise! A second trailer for SCAVENGERS REIGN coming October 19th.

@StreamOnMax

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Their time is short. #ScavengersReign premieres October 19 on Max.

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Sean Buckelew

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I just published my essay "Animated Shorts and the Quest for the Ultimate Platform" on my Medium account. It was originally published in @MostlyMoving , a quarterly magazine all about animation. Check it out and give it a 👏CLAP👏!

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Animated Shorts and the Quest for the Ultimate Platform

An essay exploring the shifting landscape of video hosting platforms.

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We’re gonna be doing a Scavengers Reign panel at Lightbox this Saturday. Anyone gonna be around?

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4 years

style frame > finished animation

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Line animation before color and comping for my new film - finally locked down this whole pipeline so the layering and everything else plugs smoothly into After Effects.

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4 years

I’ve been animating the head and body of characters separately lately and am enjoying little artifacts like this.

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1 year

Releasing an in-depth article about making an independent animated short alongside the release of DRONE this Sunday

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

As my new film DRONE enters the next phase of production, I thought I'd share some style frames of the main character.

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

The GLAS Animation Grant Program is now open for applications. Are you a US-based animator trying to make an independent short - we want to help you! Apply today!

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GLAS Animation

6 years

We are excited to announce the GLAS Animation Grant Program is now accepting applications. This program was made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor with additional support from our friends over at @Screenovelties Click here to apply:

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5 years

Some of the final color studies for DRONE.

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4 years

A bit of animation that will be tucked into the corner of a shot, barely visible. But just cause you can't see it doesn't mean it didn't take way too long to animate.

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Kind of a bummer that even Indiewire, a site specifically dedicated to covering independent film, headlines an article about the animated shorts Oscar as a race between two gigantic companies even before the shortlist is released, let alone the nominations

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Pixar Battles DreamWorks for the Best Animated Short Oscar

"Bao," Pixar's first female-directed short, goes up against DreamWorks' CG "Bilby" and hand-drawn "Bird Karma."

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Sean Buckelew

1 year

Thanks everyone for helping launch DRONE this week. It was a real labor of love and I'm very happy to see it getting out into the world.

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7 years

I had an opportunity to do an ident for the MTV International rebrand - it turned out very strange hope u like it

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Sean Buckelew

5 months

We talked about this Herzog clip a lot in the writers room! Why Scavenger's Reign Actually Feels Alien

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Why Scavenger's Reign Actually Feels Alien

Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase.MY BOOK IS ON SALE: https://amzn.to/3EPDQKtSupport Nerdwriter videos: https://pa...

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7 years

Go behind the scenes on LOVESTREAMS with this in-depth "making of" post (including downloadable project files!)-

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2 years

A few official stills from DRONE, coming soon!

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4 years

Tried to get some nice, subtle parallax on this garbage truck.

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6 years

One of my favorite shorts of all time, "Yùl et le Serpent" by Gabriel Harel is now online for a limited time - This is one of my go to shorts to convince people that the animated short is a great medium for making serious work. Check it here ➡️

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4 years

Happily working in my new studio in Denmark, getting some new colored shots in the cut thanks to @Squishy_Baff who is doing some seriously great work.

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A little breakdown of the animation/compositing process on my short film DRONE, available to watch on YouTube now -

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Sean Buckelew

4 years

My buddy Calvin Frederick is making some seriously cool stuff. All in camera, all practical effects and lighting. Can't wait to see this film get fully realized. 🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋

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Sean Buckelew

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I'll have a thought like 'I just need to add a quick scene where a character explains something expository', and then it becomes one of the hardest shots to animate in the whole movie.

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7 years

One more animated bit from the San Diego Zoo spot I got to work on over at Gentleman Scholar -

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4 years

Another day, another set of floating lip sync heads.

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4 years

I'm currently in the stage of the filmmaking process where you're convinced your movie is a terrible mess, but I just comped a shot with a background by @wesley_mcclain that is amazing (and will only be visible for a few seconds) and I just wanted to show it off.

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

Preproduction officially begins today on a big new short I’ve been writing currently titled "DR🙂NE". Here is the first concept painting by my friend Alex Murray-Clark.

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4 years

Trying to calm everyone down at the press conference.

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7 years

Rough animation for one of the shots I worked on in @josephbennett00 & @charleshuettner ’s new short SCAVENGERS

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

I wrote a little post about an animated film I probably won't finish, and the difficulty of finishing certain kinds of projects.

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Animation Post-Mortem: Making Films about the Real World in Slow Motion

I wanted to write something about an animated short film project called DATASTREAMS that I probably won’t finish (at least not in its…

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Basically what I look like every night.

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Pencil test from my work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala”

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5 years

This is what one of the non-drone characters looks like in this movie.

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4 years

The animation production on "I Lost My Body" is really interesting and unique, an exceptional example of scaling a process from shorts to feature and plussing the look instead of making economical compromises.

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Sean Buckelew

5 years

Excited on some level to see Netflix developing any kind of animated anthology, but based on the trailer () I have to agree with this Sally Cruikshank comment on a @cartoonbrew article from a few months ago

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Sean Buckelew

4 years

Going to do some more life drawing tonight - wanted to post a throwback to when I used to do it a lot more, before all this animation bullshit started wasting all my time.

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Sean Buckelew

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my film LOVESTREAMS is having a little resurgence in views over on Youtube for some unknown reason. I really love reading the comments of people who have had brushes with online love. Here's a little BTS gif to celebrate😀

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Sean Buckelew

7 years

. @smosh You used my AIM bopping gif without attribution, the least could do is link to my film about using AIM! 🙂

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Sean Buckelew

3 years

Animation is not a great medium for making any kind of timely political work, but I think it's safe to say that this film will be very relevant for the next four years.

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Sean Buckelew

6 years

Really enjoying this book of collected Miyazaki essays and lectures, especially this masterful advice on screenwriting for animation.

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3 years

Gathering for a selfie! A deleted shot from my new short film.

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6 years

Another little shot I animated from the @UMO video directed by Greg Sharp

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Sean Buckelew

4 years

my film I'M NOT A ROBOT will screen online this Wednesday, March 25th in the Competition 3 at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. This film will probably never go permanently online, so this stream might be the only chance to see it for a while.

@AAFilmFest

Ann Arbor Film Festival

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#AAFFLIVE #FilmFestival

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Sean Buckelew

7 years

in honor of the news that #AOLInstantMessenger is shutting down, here are two GIFs of the classic buddy icon bopping around!

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4 years

🔥🔥🔥 📱help📱🔥🔥🔥

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clean rough animation.

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Some early concept paintings on my film DRONE by the amazing Alex Murray-Clark, who is doing a series of Corona watercolors over on his instagram

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My new short has a couple of shots that didn't make sense for CG but needed some extra dimensionality. Used a lot of very economical trickery in Animate to give it a 3D look.

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Another rough still from the film I'm working on. The animation process on this project takes a long time, but it feels like a big step up for me in terms of the final image.

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7 years

Found an old pencil test with two random shots on my harddrive and it feels about right for today.

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10 months

I made a new series of shorts called I AM A ROBOT for @FXXNetwork and they're premiering this September at @OIAF_Animation . Can't wait for everyone to see them🤖

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6 years

Animation friends: submissions for the 2019 GLAS Animation Festival are now open (and it's free to submit!)

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5 years

I wrote a new essay for the inaugural issue of @MostlyMoving called "Animation and the Quest for the Ultimate Platform" that examines where animated shorts fit into the current media ecosystem. Also includes interview, and an essay/intvw from @samgurry .

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apparently Lovestreams won the Sapporo Breweries Award at the Chitose Airport Animation Festival ( @airportanifes ) last night! (thx @NddN ).

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GLAS Animation Festival 2018 poster special delivery! We’re probably gonna make some high quality versions for sale online - would anyone be interested in that?

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