Incredible news! After 6 years of driving all around Southern California repairing printers, I am moving on. I have accepted a position as an animator with the show Super News on the Current TV Network. (Check your local listings!) In fact, there are only 2 guys who currently work on the show, and they needed a third multi-talented fellow to join the team, so it sounds like I'll actually be getting to do... whatever it is I can do! Animation, sound, music, voices etc. I'm unbelievably excited! I'll be starting May 11th.

My goodness, I'm so behind on posting. I don't think anyone actually reads this anyway, so oh well!

I finished my celebrity-bashing animation! Thanks to Newgrounds.com for sponsoring it! Watch "Go Away"!

Last week Priscilla and I traveled to San Jose for the Independant Gaming Festival where Dad 'n Me took home the prize for Best Web Browser Game! (I did the music for the game.) You can check out some pictures of the fun here on Newgrounds!

Well, I'm behind on posting this, but hopefully you know by now that I released the stop-motion animation, "Trash" on Newgrounds.com last week. At first no one seemed to take notice and it suffered a low score and didn't win a single daily award. Luckily a few days later it was featured on the front page and then everyone seemed to love it! It ended up getting weekly 5th place and the "review crew pick" which means it was the highest reviewed movie of the week! Anyway, the movie was actually made in 1999 by André (aka "gel") and I BEFORE we made "Spin". It doesn't really have much of a story but it was an interesting exercise in utilizing the "peoplemation" technique. I decided we should show it to people after all these years so a few weeks ago I composed some new music for it and put it up.

I finally redesigned the page for purchasing one of my albums. Check it out and buy an album while you're there!

Oh yeah, and I don't want to jinx myself, but I think I'm FINALLY done with the "ultra-secret-biopharmaceutical animation"! That was one gnarly project. Too bad no one will really get to see it except the employees of said company.

Big news! (This) Cookie Dough Records website was featured on a show called "Click" on the BBC news 24! You can watch the video segment here: BBC video. (It's at the very end.) The same story is written here: BBC article. A HUGE thank you to Joe Williams who was the first to inform me of this and to send me the links!

On Friday I released an old "peoplemation" that André (aka "gel") and I made a while back. Watch it on Newgrounds.com. It's short and sort of pointless but I figured since everyone seemed to enjoy the coin animation so much (which was also short and pointless) they might like this. Unfortunately it's not getting as great of reviews, but that's ok. Next Friday I will be releasing a full-length "peoplemation" that we actually made BEFORE Spin, and I've given it an all new musical score! So be sure to check back next week!

I released "Play More" on Newgrounds.com on Friday and it did very well! It got Daily Feature (which means it was the highest scoring movie of the day) and second place for the week! That means it has a pretty good shot of winning one of the monthly awards, I'll keep my fingers crossed. (Yesterday the movie ranked as the #2 highest scoring movie of all time!) Nothing is set in stone, but André (aka "gel") and I have been discussing the possibility of creating an interactive Play game along the lines of the old Simon toys.

I've recorded a new song and for a limited time you can hear it in its entirety in the NEW MUSIC section! (click on Go Away) I actually already had a song entitled Go Away, but that is now called Without You. The plan is to create a full animation with this song featuring all of the celebrities mentioned. Who knows how long THAT will take.

I keep forgetting I can make news posts about stuff. A couple of days ago I had a little spare time (imagine that!) so I decided to throw together a project that's been sitting around for a long time. It was an old stop-motion thing I did one day back in 2000 with some coins. I happened to be borrowing André (aka "gel's") camera that we used for animating and I was bored one night. I never did anything with it sooner because I didn't think it was very interesting and it really had no point, but I decided I could submit it to Newgrounds.com just for the heck of it. It turns out that everybody LOVES it. I'm totally shocked! It started out with a relatively low score so it didn't win any daily awards, but then it was featured on the front page and the score went up and it has rave reviews. People are dying to see more stop-motion stuff, so right now I am going through our old video tapes finding a bunch of cool stuff we've done. Hopefully everyone has seen our "peoplemation" Spin by now. Well, that was actually the third "peoplemation" we made. The first one was just sort of a test, but the second one is pretty nifty so I'm planning to submit that very soon.

I'm still working on you know what. My list of projects I want to do is growing very large. Oh yeah, I almost forgot! I had a little break this weekend so I wrote and recorded a new song... It's still kind of a secret because I plan to use it in big animation for one of my next projects! Stay tuned...