Fooksie news

05.16.08 Many things have been happening. The Carrier Commercial for CoolNewEngland.com is finished! I animated the entire commercial in Flash. My friend and fellow Flash animator, Chris Fox, assisted me so we were able to get the job done in 4 1/2 days. Very stressful, but well worth the effort.I have it posted in my blog.

I animated a short for the ASIFA-Atlanta " Roll Yer Own " show. I will post it after the show. I have posted it on a few other sites, but didn't want my friends to see it until the special show in Little Five Points, ( a cool little area in Atlanta).

The short is entitled " Global Warming is Your Fault! " The interesting thing is that some people who ordinarily wouldn't see my work, have noticed it and some new opportunities have popped up. I'll be partnering with a British company, Cartoonstock, in licensing my Flash animations for various uses. I'm very excited about this new venture.

My on-going work with Compass Learning will be winding down in a few weeks.They have been great to work with.

04.22.08 I just updated my news, with all sorts of Fooksie goodness, but because I am a spaz, and am HTML-impaired, I just lost an hour's work. Nice.

But...my mom didn't raise a quitter, so here I go again. Fingers crossed.

I haven't updated the news/blog in a few weeks because of two things:

I have been very busy creating Flash animations for Compass Learning.

Mother Nature is trying to drown me in my own viscous fluids this allergy season.

The over the counter ZYRTEC has been working pretty well, though.

I am currently wrapping up the latest Flash animation for Compass Learning. The project should be finished in about 5 more weeks.

I have also finished a project for Sprint, in conjunction with Deardorff Communication. I have worked with them on another Sprint project earlier in the year. That was a series of comic strips featuring animals.

This latest project was a series of illustrations depicting a Super-Hero I created for them to be used in internal memos and store displays, stickers, etc.

Deardorff is a fantastic agency to work with!

Speaking of Super-Heroes, I pitched a Super_hero character to the Gayborhood. TV site. They are looking for content, and being a versatile guy, I designed a Super Hero that makes things nicer..." gay it up!" I have to steal some time to do a short animation of him that I can present at the ASIFA-Atlanta show in May. That way I'll be able to see what sort of response he'll get from an audience.

I'm also working on an animated TV spot for Carrier in New England. I will be creating it in Flash, and we'll see how it goes from there. I'll post a picture of the main dog character on the blog.

King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition is coming to Atlanta. Still aren't any dates that I can find on their website,but the family and I will certainly go. I did a large amount of illustrations for the exhibit company, and I think they said that they would be used in the informational posters around the show.

I will post some examples on the blog, also.

I would like to thank my friends at OZ magazine for the nice write up, talking about the hockey mascot/logo I desined for the Sask-Itoba Rangers in Canada.

I think I have successfully recreated the large posting that I had written an hour and a half ago.

Tomorrow, I'll post examles of the things I was talking about.

Ooops..almost forgot. Bamboo Learning has their website up, and have an artists' page, to give the artists who worked on the Mandarin Language project exposure. It's very flattering to be listed, but they accidentally spelled my sister's name instaed of MY first name. The funny thing is it still links to my site, so you can see pictures of me in my manly glory. Oh well. ( By the way, if you're curious, my sister's first name is Jenny,our older brother is John, and of course you found this site so you know my first name. Our parents named us three kids using the same 3 initials. I guess people did that a lot back in the sixties.)

Look to the blog tomorrow for images from this update!

Take care!

02.15.08 I've been very busy. I have finished the wallpapers for the first batch of characters for the Super Graduation Kombat Smackdown game. Jay asked me to do the other four characters. He would also like me to create a victory dance in Flash for each character.

I am happy to announce that Bamboo Learning has finished the game that I created artwork for. They sent me the swf file, and once I get permission, I will post the game in my blog. It's a game that uses my cartoons to link to Mandarin words. You hear the word, then you choose the correct picture.

I have started working with Compass Learning in Texas. I am animating their lesson activities in Flash. All of those years animating for Laser shows has really come in handy.

Yesterday I received some interest in some comic book work. I sent some pages I did years ago with some characters I absolutely love, to a company. They really thought the stuff was funny, but I have to clean up the language.( I can be quite salty). so if I can start to get that published, it'll be cool. But I am waiting to hear what the compensation would be.

Speaking of comic book companies, I saw on DRAWN that Fantagraphics was putting out a compilation book featuring creatures from myth and legend. I submitted an illustration of an AGROPELTER. I'll have to find out if they accepted it. If not, I'll just post it in the blog.

01.24.08 I was contacted today by the Sask-itoba Rangers to design their new logo/mascot for their team.Very cool project. I have to turn this project over very quickly, but it's such a fun thing to work on, it hardly seems like work. Hardly.

I talked with Jay, the co-founder of USA Testprep and received permission to post a sample character I created for them in my blog. He also asked me to create some more artwork for the game. This time I will be creating backgrounds for downloadable wallpapers featuring the characters from Super Graduation Kombat Smackdown.

01.21.08 Just finished a Flash test for Nickelodeon. Hope they like it because it would be great to get a steady gig with them.

Also finished the project for USA Testprep. That was a lot of fun. I have to get permission from them to post one of the images of a character design. Hopefully they'll give the ok for me to use one of the Shark images.

01.05.08 I am also working with a frequent client of mine, USA Testprep, creating more characters for an online game. What I really like about working with them is how they allow me to be as creative as possible when I develop the characters for them.

01.05.08 I just finished an illustration job with an online company in England that teaches children Mandarin Chinese. It was a fun project and I look forward to doing more work with Bamboo Learnng.

12.12.07 I am an advisor at Phoenix High in Lawrenceville, GA. Every 6 months, the school has a fresh group of students who present their portfolios in photography, traditional art, computer animation and web design. I review the portfolios as the students present their work to their familes and friends. I really enjoy helping out at the school.Here is a link to an article in the Atlanta paper detailing the latest Portfolio Night. Phoenix High Grads Shine

11.26.07 New website is up! Hope you like it!