#Titmouse Productions

[jgthirlwell]

A teaser trailer has just been posted for the brand new Venture Bros movie. Entitled The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart, the movie features a brand new musical score from JG Thirlwell. It will be available later in 2023 from Titmouse Productions, Adult Swim and Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment.

[demifiendrsa]

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart | First Look

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart will be available in 2023. The film picks up after the events from the season 7 finale.

Synopsis

A nationwide manhunt for Hank Venture leads to untold dangers and unexpected revelations, while The Monarch is literally out for Dr. Venture’s blood. An imposing evil from the past reemerges to wreak havoc on the Ventures, The Guild, and even the Monarch’s marriage. It will make friends and foes alike restore the Ventures’ world to order or end it once and for all.

[art-of-vox-machina]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA | Zerxus Ilerez Reference Sheet

By Phil Bourassa

[doodledrawsthings]

Begging people to watch scavengers reign, I haven’t felt this strongly about a tv show in a while.

Seriously, if you like pretty art and animation, horror, and speculative biology, this is your show

[nofacednerd]

genuinely Mariner and Boimler BOTH ending up as the (provisional) first officers of the Cerritos was the least expected ending but also the only one that could make sense and feel satisfying

[they-have-the-same-va]

Brad Boimler from Star Trek: Lower Decks, Peter Parker (Earth-65B) from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Clark Kent/Superman from My Adventures With Superman share a voice actor.

Voiced by Jack Quaid

[roseband]

ERIC NAM IS THE VOICE OF AANG FOR THE NEW AVATAR MOVIE??????

[dennistamayo]

I didn’t let hand-drawn animation die for good

With Snipple Animation in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines being the main animation studio for my future projects, I will use 8 additional animation studios. Double Plus Productions & Renegade Animation in Glendale, California, Creative Capers Entertainment in Altadena, California, Studio Yotta in Vancouver, Washington, Tonic DNA in Montreal, Canada, Yowza! Animation in Toronto, Canada, Titmouse, Inc. in Vancouver, Canada & Brazen Animation in Richardson, Texas. Oh! & one more thing, Toon City in Manila don’t do overseas animation work for Cartoon Network shows ether.

[fans4wga]

The Animation Guild Announces Unionization Efforts At Warner Bros. And Cartoon Network

EDIT: Because people are misreading this, please note: it is animation production workers specifically who are joining the pre-existing TAG (The Animation Guild) union.

Animators and animation writers are already covered under TAG. This news story is specifically about WB animation production workers.

News story text:

"Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network production workers are attempting to unionize with The Animation Guild (TAG).

A petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board today requesting a union election. The petition includes 66 staffers at Warner Bros. Animation and 22 at Cartoon Network, including roles like production manager, digital production assistant, IT technician, production coordinator, production assistant, design production coordinator, assistant production manager and senior assistant production manager.

They are involved in such Warner Bros. projects as Batman: The Caped Crusader, Harley Quinn and Teen Titans Go! and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, We Baby Bears and Craig of the Creek.

The workers also requested voluntary recognition from management at the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries.

A tweet was issued confirming the move, which was officially announced earlier on a joint Zoom call.

“Although many might not think it, production is a specialized skill; we might not be artists or writers, but what we bring to the table goes beyond traditional creativity and gets content on the air,” Warner Bros. Animation production manager Hannah Ferenc said in a statement about the organization effort. “Having lived through the existing state of the animation industry for the past seven years, I want to make sure that not only our current workers, but all those who choose to join us in the future, can feel secure in following their passion by earning livable wages and being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”

The Animation Guild has already established bargaining units on shows like Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad!  It also is active at studios like Titmouse New York and L.A. and ShadowMachine. Establishment at Walt Disney Animation Studios is currently in progress."

[foldbaron]

Updates: Kyle was funded in just a little under an hour and still climbing. The Critter community is pretty unmatched. Matt and Marisha are still displaced and waiting it out, but they're safe and that's what really matters. I'd like to ask for a little grace for the team as this has clearly disrupted not only CR's production schedule, but many of the cast and crews lives entirely. It might be a little while before CR returns.

Here's Marisha's full message.

There are dozens of GFMs going around right now from Titmouse Animators to the writer/executive producer of Marvel's "What If...?" and the creator of Cuphead who both lost their homes.

Please donate if you're able or signal boost if you can.

We take care of each other, and we'll get through this together.

[iww-gnv]

The Animation Guild has succeeded in its bid to establish a union in Texas. Austin-headquartered Powerhouse Animation Studios (Castlevania, Sonic Frontiers: Divergence) has voluntarily recognized a bargaining unit of 129 artists and production workers that sought to join the IATSE Local, the union announced on Thursday. TAG first started unionizing animation studios outside of L.A. County in 2022 with its push at Harriet the Spy studio Titmouse New York, but its new union at Powerhouse Animation marks its first in a so-called “right-to-work” state.

[isa-mocha]

For those who like a peek behind the curtains of animation production:

This is a scene I worked on for episode 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina season 3. I did the storyboards, Eugene Lee directed the episode and the editors put together the final animatic you see above (did some re-editing, added music and sound effects). As you can probably tell, the audio is temp track with a mixture of Luis Carazo and Travis Willingham doing the voice of Zerxus . There were some line edits late into the animatic stage, so Travis recorded a temporary track before they brought Luis back to re-record the lines for the final animation edit.

In regards to the Calamity flashback panels: I pitched to Travis and Sam (the show runners) the idea of keeping the stained-glass motif from the original Calamity portraits. They loved the idea! I'm obviously not a stained-glass designer/artist, so the boards are super rough hahaha. The Art department of Titmouse took the core ideas from the boards and made the final images 10000 x prettier!

I'm super glad the fans enjoyed that part of the episode! I hold this scene very close to my heart <3

Here are some other shots of Zerxus that never made it into the final animation:

And some rough boards for reference (which also got cut early on and/or changed by the time I cleaned up the panels):

I'm happy to answer questions about the behind the scene, just drop me a comment!

See you on my next making of post: The bathtube scene! U3U

[demifiendrsa]

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart | Official Trailer

The film will be released on Digital starting July 21, 2023, and on Blu-Ray and DVD on July 25, 2023. The film picks up after the events from the season 7 finale.

Blu-ray/DVD/Digital cover

Synopsis

After Hank suddenly disappears, Team Venture is forced to fight their way through conspiracies, mysteries, and plenty of villains to find Hank and restore the world as they once knew it.

[art-of-vox-machina]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA | Thordak Spawn Explorations

By Christine Bian

[bobafettfanclub]

One of many gorgeous moments in official Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures web shorts circa 2019-2020 Watch all of the episodes with Boba Fett over on BFFC: https://bobafett.club/galaxyofadventures Animation production by Barry J. Kelly and Titmouse Inc. for the official Star Wars Kids channel on YouTube

[38sr]

How did you get where you are now? Job wise I mean? Were you a college student before doing this or did you go looking for jobs in the art industry straight away?

Oh, well it's been quite a journey for me in terms of how I got to where I am right now but here's the full timeline (?):

August 1996 - BIRTH

April 2007 - I watch Brave Story at Tribeca Film Festival, life is changed and I decide to purse animation

June 2014 - Graduate high school and accepted into Montserrat College of Art for Animation & Interactive Media

Summer of 2016 - Studied abroad in Japan attending Niigata School of Art & Design

Summer of 2017 - First animation job as an animation intern for Sesame Street (yes that Sesame Street)

December 2017 - Graduated from college (yes I graduated early due to having college credits in high school), did not have a job lined up

2018 to 2019 - Living back in NY with my parents, working on indie animation productions, creating emotes and animated intros for content creators, applying and getting rejected from many job listings, received and fail multiple storyboard tests, developing my own projects and story ideas after years of not being able to for school work

July 2019 - Fly to California for the first time, made the decision to move in order to further pursue a career in animation, at this time the Nickelodeon Artist Program were accepting submissions so I busted out boards for a personal project in 3 days and submitted it (please do not be like me, take your time haha)

September 2019 - I receive a call from Nickelodeon and I go through a series of interviews for 2 months straight

Thanksgiving 2019 - I receive news I was selected as a trainee for the Nickelodeon Artist Program

January 2020 - Move to California and begin work as a trainee at Nickelodeon (specifically for Rugrats reboot)

March 2020 - The pandemic

July 2020 - I leave Nickelodeon and move onto Titmouse as a storyboard revisionist for Star Trek Lower Decks

November 2020 - My Supervising Director for Lower Decks recommends me to the first Critical Role show Legend of Vox Machina

December 2020 - I do freelance boards for Vox Machina and get hired as a full time revisionist for season 2

January 2021 - I receive a interview request for a job on WondLa at SkyDance due to one of the directors finding my work online, I heavily consider the job

May 2021 - My Adventures of Superman is announced, I draw a piece of fanart that goes viral

July 2021 - Vox Machina season 2 wraps, I receive an offer to return to Lower Decks season 3 as well to work on X-Men 97 (I said yes to Lower Decks)

August 2021 - Spiderman Freshmen Year (now known as Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman) asks if I be interested to do boards, I decline not knowing what it was for

September 2021 - Showrunner for Spiderman contacts me personally for interview, my Superman fanart from May 2021 finds it way in front of the eyes of one of the creators for MAWS, still currently doing revisions for Lower Decks S3

October 2021 - Accept job offer as board artist for Spiderman, freelancing on MAWS as a character designer (first time doing this job), turn down SkyDance job offer

December 2021 - Wrapped on Lower Decks S3

January 2022 - Launch as board artist for Spiderman at Marvel Studios, still been developing my own personal projects at this point

February 2022 - Studio Shaft offers layout and genga work for Madoka Magia Record after seeing animation work of my personal projects, I accept

April 2022 - My episode of Madoka Magia Record airs, Studio Pierrot sends offer for work on Boruto

May 2022 - After my first episode on Boruto I am offered to work on Bleach Thousand Year Blood War, I accept and continue to on Bleach as of this post (3 seasons in total), Studio Mir offers me animation work for XMen 97 (I accept but only work on the first episode)

Summer of 2022 - Working on Spiderman, animating on animes, I think at some point this is when I was offered to do animation work for Castlevania Nocturne

November 2022 - Complete season 1 of Spiderman, Marvel/Disney lays me off for *reasons*, I receive an email about potential work on an unannounced show at Nickelodeon, I'm unemployed at this point

January 2023 - Collecting unemployment, freelancing on animes, trying to survive in general, also approached by Colosso to create my own course

February 2023 - Land a short gig on Big City Greens movie over at Disney TVA, Studio Mir once again offer me work but this time for second animated Witcher film

March 2023 - Land an interview as a character designer for that unannounced Nick show, didn't get the job

May 2023 - Wrap up on Big City Greens and Witcher, fly to Japan to relax (I failed)

July 2023 - Land a layout artist position at A24 (no it's not for Hazbin Hotel), Studio Mappa offer me work on Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya Arc

September 2023 - Land another interview with Nickelodeon (this time for storyboard artist), freelancing on layouts and animation for Castlevania Nocturne S2, A24 job is stressing me out way too much so I decide to leave, MAWS hits me up for retakes on season 2

October 2023 - Wrap up at A24, I land the board artist job at Nick, I am also drowning in Jujutsu Kaisen production meltdown, complete my online course for Colosso, wrap up on MAWS S2

November 2023 - I start at Nick as a board artist, Colosso course release, I am still dying by the hands of Studio Mappa

January 2024 till now - Still boarding over at Nick and still animating on animes (I am VERY selective now about it though after JJK), I am also in therapy now Yeah so that's like, a real rough timeline over everything from school till now (and even then I am missing a lot of work details like video games and development projects due to NDAs). But pretty much what carried me was putting myself and my art out there on social media along with building relationships with people in the studios (outside of just my production) and that's how I've been able to maintain a steady work flow even when I was unemployed. Also not being afraid to develop my own ideas and share them since most of the times that gives the leadership a pretty good idea what sensibilities I have (and they just happen to match). I hope that answered your question!