STICKYBONES TEAM UP

Last week this panel discussion dropped on YouTube. Anthony Scott invited Tim Hittle and me to help judge entries into the Spookybones Halloween Pose Contest. Lauren Baker from Stickybones worked with us to produce the video. A documentarian friend of mine, Alan De Oliveira, agreed to be the moderator and we were off.

julia butterfly hill poem

Where Have All The Humans Gone? is a poem written by Julia when she lived at the top of a redwood tree named Luna. She stayed in the tree for two years and protected it from being harvested for lumber. She also came up with a way to repair the damage from a deep and vengeful cut in the tree. A cut probably intended to kill it. See picture at bottom. Click on the book to see the video of the poem. Julia asked if there was interest in helping produce and direct the animation. 

click on image to go to video - background by Jenn Ely

Luna asked for Butterfly Bandages, super strength of course.

HAUNTED TIKI RIDE UNEARTHED

Please find concept storyboards for a Tivoli Gardens Haunted Tiki Ride circa 1995. It was to be a Disneyland style boat ride at an amusement park that Disney used as an inspiration in the first place. In the end a more Scandinavian themed and pre-made ride was installed. The ride cars were going to be giant pots as in panel 15.

LAST MINUTE CESKY KRUMLOV

Participants in the 2021 Anomalia Feature Film Story Lab. Santiago, Jiri, David, Eva, Anna, (me), Pavel, Honza, Zuzana, Michal, Vojtech. Five teams with five feature film projects. Location is at the UNESCO Heritage site called Cesky Krumlov. At the top right of the photo, there is a moat where two bears now live. Traveled to the Czech Republic at a last-minute request and mentored the lab with two days’ notice!

Thanks Shelly Hoffman for helping organize a table read of Jiri’s script. Some of the series writers stayed late to help out.

Thanks Shelly Hoffman for helping organize a table read of Jiri’s script. Some of the series writers stayed late to help out.

MONSTERS OR ROBOTS

So fun to be interviewed by, Zoe Tiller, the daughter of a CALARTS class-mate of mine, Bill Tiller. She is attending our Alma Matter and wanted to do an interview about how the movie CORALINE was made.

ROAD TRIP TO CALIFORNIA 2021

Went to visit Mom and my son in CA. Felt a little self-indulgent. An amazing time to travel with fewer people on the road. Campgrounds were just opening and not full at all.

CORPSE BRIDE

A project about the corpse of a dead bride, killed in a genocide, wanting to keep the romance alive!