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For the past year I have been working at Crab Cove, LLC as an animator, and CG supervisor. Episode 1 "Lunch-Bag Blues" is available at Amazon.com. We are currently finishing up production on Episode 2 "Happy Winter"; and will be starting pre-production on Episode 3 by mid-August. I am thrilled to be working with producer and editor Glenn Lucas from Fox's King of the Hill, and he has provided me with an excellent opportunity to work with an enthusiastic group of talented animators, a few of which are fellow Chico State grads and current students. While I will have a full review of Crab Cove Episode 2 coinciding with the publication of our new website, let me shed some light on Crab Cove's background;  Based on Susan Tate's Nature Series Books, Crab Cove is wholesome and eco-concious children's entertainment starring the voice of Patrick Fraley. The setting is a charming coastal town that's home to the narrator, Colonel Crab, a wise old crustacean. The Colonel's tales involve his friends from Suzanne Tate's Nature Series: Danny and Daisy Dolphin, Katie K. Whale, Salty Seagull and many others. They also feature the real life children of Crab Cove who give the show a "Little Rascals" feel! Crab Cove, quality television that takes every child- no matter where they live on a vacation to the beach!
Ocean Visual FX has
officially announced the
development of their first all 3D animated television series,
"ROCK DAWGZ™".
Created by legendary heavy metal bassist Rudy
Sarzo. The series tells the story of a struggling 80's hair
band, consisting of all Dogs in an all animal world. With each
episode they learn that what really matters on the way to the
top is each other's unconditional love and commitment as they
foil their musical arch rivals' dirty deeds. Appearing in the
role of the ROCK DAWGZ™ manager, a sassy Chihuahua named
Chichi is none other than cultural icon Charo.
With voice and musical contributions by heavy metal legend Ronnie
James Dio and Simon
Wright (Dio, UFO & ACDC) the series is now in pre-production.
Robert DiNozzi
(Flightplan, Behind the Red Door, Sealand, Killing Time, The
Offer and The Art of Loosing) is on board as a consultant. The
series is being co-developed by Rudy
Sarzo and Robbie
Robfogel under Rude Dawg Productions.
Ocean
Visual FX has just announced its newest addition to our
team. Rudy Sarzo,  legendary
bassist and 3D
Artist will start
working with Ocean immedietly. Personally, I am thrilled
to work with Rudy, whom
I am a longtime fan of
and who's music has been influential to me scince I was only
9 years old. Rudy has played with Ozzy
Osbourne, Quiet
Riot, Whitesnake,
Yngwie Malmsteen and is
currently playing with Dio.
Combined, Rudy’s recordings have sold over 30 million
albums. Besides Rudy’s
musical accomplishments, he also demonstrated Acid,
Vegas
and DVD
Architect software at the Sony Pictures booth during the
2004 Winter NAMM Show, released
the
“Acid for Non Linear Editors” training DVD directed
by Douglas Spotted Eagle for the VASST
training series, created a 3D animated opening piece for the
European leg of the DIO “Holy Diver” tour that played
on the “JumboTron” and created the “Working
Man’s Bass” loop library exclusively for Sony Pictures’
Acid Software.
I
have completed work on the PC game
title "Wild
Life!" which was released on Sept. 30
of 2005. I handled animation on 3 characters including rigging
and texturing duties on
one (T-rex). The game was produced by Clear
Crown Studios, and is a sim based game
in which you are in control of building and maintaining your
own wild life community. Clips
are available on my animations
page.
Shots
of in game character animation for the PC title "Wild
Life!".
In
February of 2005 I completed work on a 30 second pre-visualization
animatic spot. The animatic was produced by Brainforest
Pre-Visual Animatics for a Betty Crocker commercial featuring
one of their new products; Warm
Delights. From a provided storyboard,
I re-created
a 3D environment, animated the camera, modeled and textured
the product and props. I have eaten the Warm
Delights, and yes, they are good (try it with ice cream).
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