Roby Chicks Pics - Christmas Special and Star Wars III!

Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode III, which I animated on, just aired on Dec. 19th. It really turned out amazing. I am so proud to have been a part of it.

If you missed it, it is viewable online on it's official site here on Dec. 27th. It is also available on iTunes right now! 3 bucks. Deal.

And 2 weeks ago was the Robot Chicken Christmas Special. I animated a whole 4 seconds on it! Watch it streaming on adult swim here. (WARNING - blood, blood, and swears)

Robot Chicken Star Wars III

I had the great opportunity to be an animator on the upcoming Robot Chicken Star Wars III. I just returned from the crew premier at Mr. Lucas' own Skywalker Ranch, and it was absolutely amazing. It airs Sunday, December 19th.

Nautical Boy HD

A new 2D animated short I completed this quarter at SCAD. 2 month for 20 seconds... goodness.

Here's Nautical Boy!

Groove Me - Maximum Balloon music video

My buddy Carlos Lopez Estrada directed a great music video for Maximum Balloon's new single, Groove Me. If you look closely, you can spot me in a few shots.

The sky time lapse that James Biscardi and I made, Le Ciel Roulant, was used as the primary green screen effect and can be seen in 90% of the shots in the video. Check out those beautiful clouds!



Also check out the Directors Cut of it!
It was featured on the front page of Vimeo.com!

SHINE - A music video

There's a pretty long story behind this video, but I won't bore you with it...

Ok. Basically here is a music video I made for The Dirty Heads - Shine. Created in 2 months all within my dorm room a year and a half ago. I experimented with the idea of clay only being illuminated by black lights. The effect was a fun galactic-bowling glow feeling that I was extremely happy about.



The label wasn't though, and therefor was not used as they're official video. Ah well. Watching it again now, over a year later, I still and overall quite happy with it. A few issues, yes (the live action of the band wasn't great video quality, and they never played the song Shine in the footage, I just edited them playing other songs to match) but I am happy to show it off now.

Finally, some footage to show

Hello!

I finally cut something together to show on the interwebs for "Campfire." It's a nice little trailer, that gives you a glimpse of the animation and the feel of the short.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3-OQipwLmc

The whole short film SHOULD be done by now, but life has kept me busy. Living in France for 2 months, now in LA for the summer, it's crazy. Good news is that I am officially working at ShadowMachine, working on a little show called "Robot Chicken." It's been going great.

Campfire will be completed, someday. In the mean-time, enjoy this little trailer!

Where I've been...

There has not been that much news in terms of Campfire, sadly, but there is a reason for that. The past two months I have been studying abroad in southern France with 60 other SCAD students. It was probably the best decision of my life to go there.

Since I was not taking any animation courses while I was there, I needed to get my video-making fix. I teamed up with my friend, James Biscardi (master photographer) to create an epic time-lapse of the area we were staying in. You may recognize some very known french monuments hidden in there as well.

So here it is! Le Ciel Roulant / The Rolling Sky

Le Ciel Roulant / The Rolling Sky - A time lapse of France from Dan MacKenzie on Vimeo.