Abominabababable.

The commercials I got to work on for Bing are out there and being shown on tv!  You can see all four of them HERE.

I showed up for an internship and instead got hired as the rigger.  My job included wrangling puppets, building rigs, tying things down, and various other MacGuyver-esque things.  Good times.  I also got to hang out with a couple of the animators who worked on Jingle, and it was a blast.  It was particularly awesome because I got to work with puppets based on the old Rankin & Bass Christmas specials that I'd seen as a kid.  The art department did a fantastic job on them; they look just like they should.

In other news, Jingle All the Way is out on DVD; you can get one at any hallmark store.  It's very cute and I had a blast working on it.  I snagged a copy today so I could see the behind the scenes bit (which has a couple of appearances by my good friend Teresa), and so I could have it for myself.  It's possible my hands make an entrance, but I didn't watch it real hard to make sure.  Woo!  It'll always be remembered as my first paid animation gig.  In fact, something I animated made it in!  Yay!  I've officially been paid to animate.  Let's hope it continues. :)

I'm finishing up my animation demo reel and have some snazzy cases for them... graduation is in 2.5 weeks and I'm both ready and dreading being done.  Go figure.

Jingle and Bing!

Bent Image Lab hired me a while back to work as an assistant animator on a stop motion holiday special called Jingle All the Way; it aired on the hallmark channel tonight and should be found online somewhere tomorrow hopefully.  It's ridiculously cute and I really had a blast working on it.  I also got hired as a rigger for some commercials they did for Bing a month or two ago; they can be seen here:

Bing Holiday Ads

Happy!  It was a total childhood fantasy to work with those puppets.  Seriously. Awesome.