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Announcing Lightbox

Lightbox is a mobile-first, full-featured, traditional (hand-drawn) animation production application/suite. It is what I am focused on building now. I am incredibly excited, and look forward to sharing this adventure with the world.

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A Bowlful of Nostalgia: the "Death" of Saturday Morning Cartoons

On October 11, 2014 I saw a couple of people on my social networking feeds lament the "fact" that it was the first time in decades that there were "no Saturday morning cartoons" on in America. What really happened was that the last over-the-air broadcast station with a multi-hour programming

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On Animation Design and Production Methods

It's interesting how the production method of an animated show—traditionally hand-drawn, Flash-style "paper" marionette, stop motion, or 3D CGI—can so deeply affect design. I've noticed some long-running shows switching from one to the other, typically from hand-drawn to Flash-style, and there is just something... off about them. The

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Animation as an Adult Medium in the USA

Blame TV. Animation in the US began as an adult medium, interstitial films that ran between the A and B halves of double-feature presentations at theaters as far back as the 1920s. Suggestive themes were commonplace—plenty of early Betty Boop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop#As_a_

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"Disruption" Does Not Apply: Innovation in the Animation Industry

On his Animation Anomaly website, Charles Kenney asks [http://animationanomaly.com/2014/01/23/is-the-animation-industry-being-held-back-by-legacy-players/] : > [I]s the animation industry being held back by existing, established, players? Consider the car industry and the fact that it wasn’t a manufacturer that made the biggest breakthrough in driverless cars, it was

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Howl at the Moon

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. Enjoy! Two and a half years ago I had the opportunity to take some animation classes at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I’d been drawing again for

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The Disturbance in "Urbance"

I am archiving older pieces I have written on other sites, making this the definitive home for all my work. Enjoy! Just about a week ago, Steambot Studios (of TRON Uprising fame, also having done a ton of concept and IP development work for film and game properties you know