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Letting that hair fly this #AniMonday

This was an old Goldenloin test, proposing what we could do with his hair during an action sequence. I was trying to embrace the straight, graphic design we were using and incorporating it into his movement.

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Out with the old, in with the new!

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Baggy trousers and coffee stains.

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Woz's body is just working against him this #AniMonday

This was my first pitch for how Woz got stagefright. Needless to say, the Blue Sky directors didn't go for it.

Music from the Little Rascals.

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So many ways to flub your line this #AniMonday

Woz outtakes that didn't make the cut.

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One more Yule cat for the road. Happy new year!

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Frond is the star of my "Advice Things Are Ad-Nice" notes for some reason.

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Content Lock art for "Advice Things Are Ad-Nice"

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Definitely jumping in on the Yule Cat bandwagon. I didn't know this beauty existed until this year.

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Santa's gonna' Santa.

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Racing to the Annie Awards this #animonday

"They Slug Horses, Don't They" got nominated for three Annie Awards, including "Best TV/Media Mature" category! So proud of the crew, and I'm knocked out at how well the episode is being recieved!

These were tests I did to help myself (and the anim crew) distinguish between Louise and Tina's drawing and #animation styles.

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Your art inspires me so much, your use of expression and line weight is truly remarkable, I love it so much! I asked my family to get me brush pens for Christmas so I can learn/practice line weight traditionally 👉👈 you are such an inspiration to me I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!

Ah! Thank you! The brush pens I like using are the Pentel pocket brush pens. Super messy, super unforgiving, I love 'em. Haha! Hope you have a wonderful holiday as well!

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Dog Christmas Day Afternoon retake notes!

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I wanna' make a sweater out of you.

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So, are you like a main idea guy for bobs burgers or do you just contribute to it. I’ve followed you for a while but i dont really know your story

I'm not a MAIN idea guy for Bob's. I work in post production. Each episode is written, storyboarded, and then animated overseas, and when the animation comes back, there are always a lot of fixes that need to happen. It could be changes in the animation, changes in the audio, or even changes in the story. All these changes are called "retakes", and I'm the retake director. So I work closely with the main series directors, and even get to briefly work with Loren and Nora.

All that being said, I'm more of a "problem solver." The ideas I contribute are mostly around "this shot/gag/drawing isn't working, how do we fix it?" A lot of the time the directors and showrunners know how to fix it, and I just draw what they need, but a lot of the time I'll chime in with ideas for fixes, or even point out things that people might not have considered, and they'll use my ideas if they feel it works. The end credits segments are usually a little more open ended because we do them stateside, and during post production. So there are times where they don't have ideas for that, and I can pitch something. The "Slug-Horses" episode, I came up with the end credits myself. I think someone said "maybe we could do something with the rockets dancing/spiraling around with eachother", and I rolled with that. I came up with the idea of transitioning it back into the kitchen, so I boarded it, sent it to the creative heads, and they loved it!

So, that's pretty much the "creative" side of my job. I also direct the stateside animators in executing all the changes we've decided to make. Lotsa' work! But I love it.

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Did you also happen to do the animation with Gayle panicking in the hallway in the most recent episode? When she’s screaming “call 911!” Over Tina and Louise fighting haha. It looked very fluid!

I did not. That was the result of a good storyboard artist, and the overseas crew putting one of their "A" animators on it. I totally agree though. That was some solid animation on Gayle.

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Aunt Gayle for the save!