Part 85: Phoenix Pose and Color
I’m developing an animated show. I’ve worked in animation production for years, but while I’ve helped other people develop shows, I’ve never developed or written my own. So I’m using this show to bring you along for the process, from writing the script into developmen

Part 84: Phoenix Design Feedback
I’m developing an animated show. I’ve worked in animation production for years, but while I’ve helped other people develop shows, I’ve never developed or written my own. So I’m using this show to bring you along for the process, from writing the script into developme

Part 83: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I’ve worked in animation production for years, but I’m new to the writing side. Today I’m sharing some early character design work for Phoenix, one of the main characters in the show. Let me know what you think of the direction!
#animation #tvshow

Part 82: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. Today I’m excited to announce I finally found a character designer who I feel will be able to bring my idea to life visually. I’m alway

Part 81: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. Lately, I’ve been working on creating cool surnames for my sorcerer families, since I plan to name each magic style after the family it

Part 80: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. Today I started transferring the script onto physical index cards so I can pin them up on my board.

Part 79: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. I got the index cards and started writing out each scene. It’s already helping me visualize the structure more clearly and think about

Part 78: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. Today I finally broke down and bought some index cards to help organize my scenes. I think being able to physically move things around

OK, I need your help. I’m looking for examples of TV shows that the writers are really good with both deep character moments and comedy and are able to transition between the two very well. #behindthescenes #animation #writting #tvwriter #comedy

Part 76: Join me as I develop my animated TV series. I have years of experience as an animation producer focusing on production, but I’m new to the writing process. Today I made a lot of great progress. I think I finally cracked the exposition and found the right balance between sharing important in

I’m an animation producer developing my own animated TV series. I’m sharing the process as I go along, so hope you learn something from the process.

I’m curious, why do so many people include their age when applying for a job? Are you being taught to do that? The number of emails I get from people that say My name is ____ and I’m 27, or 18, or 32. I don’t need to know your age as long as you’re at least 18.

If I opened a bar, I’d call it TBD. That way, whenever someone adds plans to their calendar but hasn’t picked a spot yet, typing “TBD” could auto-populate my bar. Imagine the random business that could bring!

I can airplay my office Mac Mini to my Apple TV in the living room with my Bluetooth mouse & keyboard while playing a game on a remote windows machine, who-knows-where in the country, without noticing any lag. We’ve come a long way from it taking an hour to download a single image through dialup.

I’ll be heading to CTNX tomorrow through the weekend. Looking forward to running into all the amazing animation people.

When is the animation industry going to pick back up? Is it going to? So many questions.

Well, here’s to the start of another social media account.