Another Tattoo

(while this frame is my drawing, it's just a traceback/inbetween of someone else's equally hard work...)

Glad I can finally post this, the music video for Weird Al's "Another Tattoo," from his new ALbum, Alpocalypse, which had I worked on in the fall during my internship at Augenblick Studios:


I only did two shots, the zoom in on Ronald Reagan (pictured is one of my frames) and the zoom in on the goat skull/laser removal; which, while they go by in split seconds actually took a whole work day because they're so detailed and I had to work zoomed in at like 800%. Regardless, working on this was a weird dream fulfillment for my inner child, as I was a big Weird Al fan in my single digit years. And in a way, I enjoyed working on those two shots more than I did working on Ugly Americans... Hope you enjoy it!

Speaking of which, Ugly Americans Season 2 starts next week! I didn't animate much like I did last season, but I did clean up on quite a few backgrounds. So, look for that! Otherwise, I have a couple little projects in the pipeline, which I'll let you see as they come... but my day job has had me swamped, I think I'm going to ask for less hours so I can actually do art things/thesis boards.

Demo Reel!

I finally made myself a Demo Reel!


Demo Reel Breakdown:

0:03 - "Building Toss" - Nov. 2010 - Exchange Exercise - Flash

0:08 - "Weight Walk" - Oct. 2010 - Walk Exercise - Flash

0:12 - "The Imposter" - Feb. 2011 - Lip Sync Exercise - Flash

0:22 - "Rotoscope Blues" - March 2010 - Rotoscope Exercise - Flash

0:27 - "Ugly Americans" Season 1 - Sept. - Nov. 2010 - Augenblick Studios Internship - Flash

0:38 - "Far Out: Bugman" - April 2010 - Sophomore Film - Flash/After Effects

1:10 - "Unnatural History" - Dec. 2009 - Digital Compositing Final - Flash/Digital Film

1:21 - "Trip-Nip, Sit" - Oct. 2010 - Sitting Exercise - Flash

1:29 - "Sewper Mutant vs. Black Dynamite" - Dec. 2010 - Emotion Exercise - Flash

1:38 - "Fly Fishing" - Dec. 2010 - Fishing Exercise - Flash

1:47 - "Hard Dog Life" - March 2011 - Lip Sync Exercise - Flash

Audio: Yūzō Kayama - "Black Sand Beach"

Note that this is the first time I've uploaded anything from my FAR OUT project, let alone the film, online. Despite this, I still will not be posting any more from the protect at the moment. Also, this is the first time I've gotten to post some of my scenes from Ugly Americans Season 1! I'm still at Augenblick, but I can't post the unaired stuff for obvious reasons.

Credit!

The second half premiere of Ugly Americans aired tonight! I was at some shindig for Augenblick and the aired it, and the credits went by damn fast. Thankfully I asked brother to record the episode on the DVR back home, and he was able to rewind, pause, and snap this photo for me:


I guess because of premiere time advertising and what not, they had to go with 'fast credits' which I've seen on a lot of networks where time overlap is an issue. When I skimmed the episode the other day at the studio, the credits looked like the traditional Comedy Central style credits, and you could actually read everything. But alas, here it is, my first ever televised credit. Time to update my IMDb page!

Ugly Americans

Since the beginning of last month I've been interning at Augenblick Studios, in-betweening and coloring on the 2nd half episodes of Ugly Americans' first season. So yeah, make sure you watch it tomorrow night at 10:30 PM EST on Comedy Central, and look for my name in the credits! I'm credited as "Jared Weiss" (no D.) and am at the bottom of the Interns list (it's alphabetical, I'm used to it). I can't post anything that I've worked on until after the episodes have aired, so it may be a few weeks until I can show you any of my actual work from the show. I'm not alone either, my friend Matt Marblo also interned at Augenblick since the summer.

Fun Fact: I was actually offered to work on the first half of the season last summer, but couldn't because of scheduling conflicts and the fact that I didn't know Flash at all. And then I screwed up in trying to get the summer internship this year. But I'm there now, so all is well finally.

Also, in other news, last week the creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog (truly my favorite show when I was in middle school), John R. Dilworth, was actually in my room and watched my final film from this past year. This makes him the second person, to my knowledge at least, with a show on Cartoon Network to have seen my film and complimented on it; the first being Joe Murray (Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo). And having always been a Cartoon Network fan, ever since I was a wee lad, it's really a dream come true.

Remember kids, if you try hard enough, and always push yourself, you can actually accomplish your goals!

P.S. I know I still haven't put my film publicly online. Things didn't work out as hoped over the summer in terms of getting it screened somewhere, so it's kind of left the status of the film's online viewing in limbo. I'm sure I'll put it up someday, but the character and story are still too close to me to just let it go freely.

Applying the Knowledge

Catching up with myself here, here's a couple things I've made in the past week or so. As I pointed out in the last mini-post, I've been interning at Augenblick Studios, and I made a little game on my deviantART, He-Man Roulette.

The design was heavy influenced by some of the drawing/animating techniques I've learned since I started, with the faces of known characters or in the styles of friends' and other artists' work. It started because of something in animation class, that's all I'll explain. Anyways, now that a week or so has passed, here's all the faces:

This is just the first run, of 30 faces in all. When I feel like it, I'll probably add more into the mix.

Oh, and I also made this... but you shouldn't think much of it, and make sure your speakers are low...