Here’s a portion of a new Japanese market Nintendo game we made the graphics for. A lot of in-game sprites flew from our fingers to make the deadlines on this game, but it was a blast. By clicking above, you can watch a clip from the intro video we made to show how amazing the game is when played on the Nintendo DS version. If you click to read more you can see some of the early character designs we made for the animation portions of the game.

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This is the animated music video we made with the boys from the Eastern Conference Champions. By far the most interesting song we’ve ever made an video for… We used an new, untested (until this production) rotoscope animation process on this video. The actual techniques we used are a bit of a secret, but we will say we did use a ouija board to channel a rather hyperactive spirit from 1985 that claimed to supply the cocaine to the animation crew during production of A-Ha’s rotoscoped video. This paranormal entity’s tweaked advice, was particularly useless. So we just kinda winged it…

Also, note the psychopaths’ line dance in the video. If you learn this dance before you hit an ECC concert, you can join all the other people on the dance floor in a post-modern hipster mating ritual that always ends in heaping handfuls of ass.

Trust us. Click the “continue reading” to watch.

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We have a bunch of illustration & comics you can look at now.

Have a look by clicking on that chap there there——>

In our pursuit of creating motion were there was none before, often we are forced by benevolent hands to slow down and simply produce one static image. A cosmic sign to slow down and enjoy the motionless. A self reflective moment to feel each breath of the pencil’s graphite across the fine tooth of the page. One still moment forever frozen in iconic imagery to remind us that an animator’s life is fleeting.

Typically we ignore all that esoteric bullhonky and craft single images that capture motion despite their stillness… because deep down we are animators. Our lives are centered around making it move.

Here is an early keyframe test to work out the transformation moment for “Punching Bag.” For a whole bunch of this making-of stuff visit our Production Blog.

Look for that “Made ‘n ‘Merica” stamp to know you’ve supported the endangered American animator. We’ve always taken pride in the fact we avoid outsourcing and hire as many animators as possible in America. Fuck yeah.

Remember that great pride of yesteryear? Put this in your head:

or listen Don, Sammy, & the gang:

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new musical short film we’ve been working on for the past year, mosey over to Lonely Loves Lonely, and pick through the fields of production updates one frame at a time.

Here is the trailer for James Patterson’s latest graphic novel. That’s right people. That’s how cool and legit comic books er, graphic novels are now.

Our production blog has a the daily rumblings of our animators available for perusal, there you can see our progress through various animated commercials, animated idents, animated films, animated TV, animated everything.

While we are a animation and design collective first and foremost, we’re not afraid of cameras, actors, cranes, steadicams, or no ghost. We like when clients want to throw live action into the mix. It keeps things spicy. Luckily we have the talent on staff to handle integration shoots. Working directly with our clients we’ll make a mash-up of real and magic into one look. Our team is headed by our Motion Graphics Lead Designer Mr. Patch, and we have several live-action crews available depending on the locations required. Click the image below to see some of our integration work over the years: