New updates

Lots of things have been going on!! So much so that I have had little to no time to post anything up here.
Anywho, after having an animation featured in the Xavier:Renegade Angel contest on Adult Swim, I have been getting pretty steady gigs for work.
btw you can view my animation by going here

One new project we're working on is a video for Zach Hill (Hella, Team Sleep, The Advantage)'s new project Chll Pll. It will be about 80% animation and about 10% live action.
I should probably clarify what I mean by "we" at this point.
"We" is a collective of artists that I knew from the Houston, TX area that have jumped on board to help animate video projects and print projects I get.
"We" go by the name Funwunce.
Everyone I work with are phenomenal artists-- go check out their work at the link above.

Another project we have started is a video for the band Black Moth Super Rainbow. We are doing an animated video for the song "Tooth Decay" off of their forthcoming album Eating Us.
We get the chance to work with PFFR on this one so we're all totally stoked.

Alllllsooo - I got commissioned to do the new European Tour shirts for Philadelphia, PA based Psych-Grind band An Albatross.
Here is a picture of the early draft of said shirt.


Also, I will be posting screen shots of the aformentioned video(s) soon.

Stay posted!!!

"Wires and Buttons" and "Delilah" videos DONE!!!

Young Mammals - "Wires and Buttons"

"Wires and Buttons" - Mark Armes from mark armes on Vimeo.




Young Mammals - "Delilah"
The Young Mammals won Song of the Year, Best new Band, and Best Indie Rock at the 2007 Houston Press Music Awards as a result of their very hard work and the independent release of the "Delilah" video.

"Delilah" Young Mammals from mark armes on Vimeo.

I had the very fortunate opportunity to work with the director Mark Armes and the Young Mammals to produce two amazing videos. On the video for "Wires and Buttons' I was absent from the set but I helped Color Correct the B&W footage in post and attempted to re-create the sharp contrasts used in old Zombie movies. In the "Delilah" video I basically created the rigs that brought the snack foods to life and helped with overall art direction.

ENJOY!!!!

Links to Copeland and Presidents of the United States of America videos

Hello everyone,
I'm posting links to Quicktime versions of two videos I recently worked on with some super talented individuals.
Both videos were directed by Van Blumreich with animation by Mark Armes and myself.

Copeland - Should You Return (Dir: Van Blumreich, Animation: Mark Armes, Shelby Hohl)

Presidents of the United States of America - Rot in the Sun (Dir: Van Blumreich, Animation/ Art Direction: Shelby Hohl)

Some scenes from the new cartoon

Mark Armes and I have been arduosly trying to chug out a couple of animations so that we can start submitting our hand drawn stuff to some film festivals. Anywho, here are some scenes of a cartoon we're currently working on.

Drawn Smogether

About to meet up with Mark Armes to start adding some scenes to an animated short we've been working on. We're hoping the run time ends up to be about 2-3 minutes so that we can start submitting it some animation festivals.
I have that in the works and I have a music video for a Houston, TX-based hip hop artist Perseph One that's coming up. Really stoked on the Perseph video because I'm basically getting free reign to do whatever kind of animation I want in it.
I'll have some stills posted up for both once I get to a scanner.

Good Morning

So last night I went to a film premiere for my buddy Van Blumreich at Dean's. Pretty rad turn out. He played two music videos I had the honor of working on but unfortunately, I showed up kinda late so I only got to see one of them. We had a chance to make music videos for Copeland and the Presidents of the United States of America (i know right?!). The videos were fun to work on but required some very tedious time hand-cutting little objects out of polystyrene. For the Copeland video, Mark Armes and I produced Stop-Motion Animation for the last, Id say 3rd, of the video. I built all the props/puppets and did Live Action Animation on the Presidents of the United States video. Both will have pics and links up soon.