Barko gets a biscuit.

Another Barko post! Apologies to those that already know! Barko just won the audience award for animated short at the Austin Film Festival. woohoo! Here's the link to all the audience award winners.

Titmouse starts a blog!

Some of my peeples at Titmouse have started a blog! My first entry is for the category "The Secret Life of Tron." (Tron being the studio owners' dog that hangs out here often). Check out everybody's cool stuff here! WARNING! Not always safe for work!! Seriously!! LOLROFL!

Red Stick Animation Festival!

Barko is one of four finalists in the Professional Animated Short category of the Red Stick International Animation Festival! I might actually see Louisiana for the first time. :) Check out the list of finalists here.

Austin Film Festival

Barko will be screening at the Austin Film Festival on Oct. 23 and 24th! Check out Barko's page here.

hubba bubba

Scott Pilgrim promo!

Adult Swim aired this Scott Pilgrim cartoon last night to promote the movie. I got to direct on the Titmouse end and had an amazing team!! Great job Titmice!

new demo reel

Animation Reel 2010 from Allison Craig on Vimeo.

A freelance client needed to see my schtuff, so I cut a new reel. Kinda cool to put together since it's been 4 years since my last one!

Shark Week DAY 5

The Porbeagle Shark. I like their big eyes. :)

Shark Week DAY 4

the frilled shark...

Shark Week DAY 3

Made it with about 2 min. to spare before day 4!! phew! This one is a zebra shark.

Shark Week DAY 2

Today's shark: The Port Jackson. Weird lookin' lil guy.

Shark Week begins!!

So Megan Dong has inspired me to join in on the Shark Week shark-a-day drawing challenge that's over on Kristen Campbell's deviant art page. I dunno if i'll make it everyday, but I can at least make day one! Here's my version of a sand tiger shark.

Palm Springs Pics

Thought I'd post some pics from the Palm Springs Shortfest (Barko's world premiere). It screened on Thursday, June 24th with a group of other animated shorts, and then again the following Monday with the Best of the Fest program. (I saw later on the website that based on audience vote, Barko was #3 out of 35 animated films)! Josh, his parents, and I had a great experience and a nice little vacation to boot. (Although it was 108 degrees. YOWZA). It was the first time I got to see Barko on the big screen which was pretty crazy. And the audience reacted really well! Laughing, awwwwing, gasping in all the right moments. Lots of other good films in the bunch as well. I have a soft spot for David OReilly's Please Say Something. Freakin genius! Afterwards, introverted me had to get up and do a Q&A with one other director that was there. Luckily the nerves went away once I was up there, and no one asked me anything impossible to answer. :) Thanks again Titmouse and all the Titmice helper peoples!

old goats

more freelance!

Barko premiere!

Barko is about to make its worldwide premiere at the Palm Springs Shortfest. It screens on June 24th at 1pm. Excitement!! Thanks again to Titmouse and all who helped!!

Color! Omg!

A couple colored cleanups. Yes, I'm reusing the Melba wallpaper background. I call it leverage!

Pintosus....or Peggo. Whichever you prefer.

more character designs!

"Burr," said Bambi.

Some unused sketches from work. More to come!

Film Festivals, oh my!

Barko has been accepted to the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) !! The festival takes place July 21st through the 25th. If you happen to be in South Korea, go check it out!

yoo-na-corn

Melba Toast moves!

Melba Believes She Is Eating Tomato Soup from Allison Craig on Vimeo.

We screened everyone's animations tonight, everybody is freakin' unbelievable. Titmouse talent HO!!!

Melba Toast

This is Melba Toast, my subject for Titmouse's 3rd annual 5-second animation day. We get a whole day to animate whatever we want to and then the following day, we watch them all together. So here are some sketches of Melba I did a couple nights ago. I went with the middle one and animated her today. I'll post the animation as soon as we screen them!

Oskar

I recently watched Let the Right One In and it just kinda stuck with me. Here's a quick sketch of poor Oskar in the snow.

Barko on ColdHardFlash

Got a shout-out from flash animation blog, coldhardflash.com today! Thanks chf!

Barko Trailer and website!

Barko trailer from Allison Craig on Vimeo.

Sorry to those of you who've already seen all this! (Titmouse and I have been bombarding Facebook lately.) But the Barko website is now up on titmouseshorts.com. You can watch the trailer here or there, but the site has some gallery images to peruse if you're interested. I'll keep posting here and there about any updates! Thanks for checking it out.

BARKO IS FINISHED!

So after a year and a half, I've finally finished my first short film, "Barko." It runs 7 minutes and is about a sad lil circus dog. I worked on it through Titmouse - they ask a couple employees to do their own personal films every year (or two) and give us some time to work during that year, help promote it, etcetc. Thanks to Chris and Shannon of Titmouse and all the great help I got on this from coworkers/friends/interns! And thanks to my man, Josh for dealing with me working all the time! I won't be posting the film online anytime soon since I'll be spending the year applying to festivals and I think Titmouse has other plans for the collection of films we create. But I'll try to keep this blog up to date on what festivals it might get into, posters, and a trailer I'll be making eventually. So you'll get a peak if you haven't seen it yet! Now I'm off to play video games! Weeeeee!!!