Creation of.... ???

Gary Dunn the character designer of 'Gnomeo and Juliet' is a kid like troublemaker the size of a mountain. He got a hold of these pictures of animation supervisors Morgan Ginsberg and Dougg Williams and this is the result. There, now everyone can be disturbed.

9

These are 3 of the people I meet while working on '9' the movie. All are from various studios in the States, and all are nice folks. There are a lot of opinions on '9' as a movie. One thing I will say, I respect Shane very much for trying to do something different from what is the norm of westernised animated films.

Shane Acker the director.

 

Joe Ksander the animation director.

Kristin Solid was one of the other another animation supervisors.

More Anvil..

As I mentioned on a previous post. Samad is very entertaining character. These are some more drawings I did of him while visiting his desk during my afternoon animation rounds.

 

Samad's wife went away on a trip, so he decided to let his beard grow and became a wild man (at least until she came home).

 

 

Samad has about 2381 cousins.  Occasionally they will stop by his house and eat all his food.

 

 

Samad and I discussing one of his animation scenes.

 

 

Nothing like a good piece of gum.

 

Samad did some really great animation work on Gnomeo and Juliet, especially the Benny character.

 

One of his late night bingers. He has an average of at least 2 a week.

 

Samad likes to keep an eye on everyone at the studio. Especially Praveen, his sworn enemy.

 

 

The Bio Epic

 

 

Chuck Gammage drawing Me as....

This was while we were working on a Hubba Bubba commercial. The Mandaryl baboon.

While working on an Avril  Lavigne job.

A Campbell's soup ad featuring Popeye. Paul Motta is an assistant animator, he and I shared an office.

Another Chuck drawing while we were working on a couple Kellogg's cereal milk bar commercials for the UK featuring a cow character named Uder.

I look like Frankenstein.

Or a bulldog (from a Dennys commercial years ago)

Alan Barillaro

Alan and I went to cartoon school years ago and we have been good friends ever since. On graduation, he went off south to Pixar, and I decided to avoid that cgi stuff and stay in Canada to work in the traditional hand drawn animation. Who was the smarter one.

Anyway, we have a good chat roughly every other month about the business and various things. Every time will always include how entertaining his little kids are. One instance, he told me about an argument he had with them (and lost) over the scientific naming of a Brontosaurus.

Praveen Nadarju

Praveen is hands down one of the most entertaining people I know. He lives for pranking his co-workers, taking an extra interest in attacking Samad Khan. The amazing thing is more than half the time his pranks fail big time, in most cases backfiring on himself all to the enjoyment of the animation team. He has however occasionally gotten them to work, nearly bringing people to the edge of a nervous breakdown... Morgan Ginsberg for example.

I do thumbnails and drawings at peoples desks while doing animation rounds. Sometimes I do fun drawings of the animators to try and keep things light. One drawing I did of Praveen he said I made him look fat. So I re drew this for him.

 

Praveen is also an amateur magician (go figure) and like his pranks, his tricks usually go horribly wrong. Anyway he's fun guy to work with.

 

Deanna Marsigliese

I met Deanna years ago when she did a stint of work at Chuck Gammage Animation. She is an exceptionally talented lady and has done very well for herself, most recently working at Pixar. Not only is Deanna a great lady but she is a lot of fun to work with as well.  For example, while she was working at Chuck's, one of the many pranks we played on her was using a laugh track after every time she spoke. That's a great way to annoy anyone.

Occasionally Deanna would come into my office and we would have great chats while I was working. I think this instance she was unhappy and bored with her current wardrobe. Therefore the Paper bag Princess.

Vanessa Arsen

I did this little drawing during animation rounds. I met Vanessa a few years ago while working on '9'  and have worked with her ever since. She is a bit of a dynamo, doing great work, tackling difficult scenes and working very fast. In fact she did the most footage on 'The Nut Job' and like the picture she was smiling the entire time. Vanessa is such a great person to work with.

More Happy Ginsberg and associates

Chuck taking swings at Morgan again.

 

This is Morgan on a regular work day approximately about 9:52 am.

 

 

 

Morgan and Rolph.

 

Morgan and Dogbert.

 

 

Morgan and I.

 

 

And a Shane drawing.

 

Chuck draws Chuck

A couple of Chuck drawings.