Passer Passer at Animation Block Party!

Passer Passer made its East Coast debut this past weekend at Animation Block Party in NYC!

It screened on Friday night as part of the Rooftop Films series. The whole line-up was fantastic: http://rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/animation-block-party-short-films/

Passer Passer at Long Day Short Film Festival

Last Friday my thesis film Passer Passer premiered at the Long Day Short Film Festival in Alameda, CA! Alameda is across the Bay from San Francisco, an island that used to serve as an air force base. The screening was inside of a giant hangar that used to be used for painting aircraft, but is now used for storing massive amounts of wine.

I was in the festival in 2011 with Moe's Musical Morning, and it was really great to be back again and see how the fest has grown.

Passer Passer on Cartoon Brew!!!

I'm thrilled to report that Passer Passer will be premiering soon on Cartoon Brew, as part of their Student Animation Festival! The whole line-up looks outstanding, check it out HERE.

L.A. Zinefest!

I'll be selling comics at L.A. Zinefest this upcoming February 17 with my friends Miguel and Amy. More drawings and comics to be posted shortly.

New Blog URL!

I've switched blog urls! sandwhichjedi.blogspot.com should automatically be redirected here to louisjmorton.blogspot.com. Please switch your link to this new url. Thanks!

PiKA PiKA at USC

PiKA PiKA, the world famous Japanese animation group that has popularized light animation was here last week at USC! I helped wrangle people around this giant face the night of the event, and also did a super lightning fast edit and compilation of all the footage of the evening to be shown the same night. (And by edit I mean I followed the directions outlined by Tochka (the animation group) the night before).

Here is the first part of the workshop, a giant face:

Photo courtesy of Jovanna Tosello.

PiKA PiKA's inspiring work: http://tochka.jp/pikapika/

Bix Pix

I just finished up the last day of my one-day-a-week summer internship at Bix Pix.

I'm a huge fan of their work and it was awesome to help out on a few summer projects, the largest of which was a series of spots for Kreo Transformer commercials. Here is a clip of one of the commercials that the studio produced:

I was mostly just on hand for any assistance of grabbing lights, stands and things as needed. But I did fabricate a few things in one of the spots to air later!

Moe's on a brochure!

Last week USC held a ceremony dedicated the newly named Jeffery Katzenburg center for animation. Mr. Katzenburg, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Speilburg were all present and each gave a little speech. Much to my surprise Moe made an appearance too. He was all over the banners and brochures. I just plain lucked out here, I happened to be in the cubes when the guy was collecting artwork for the banners. It was still cool to see Moe amongst all the awesome USC work though!

Miss the Misery

Miss the Misery finally made it's online debut last week. I was fortunate enough to volunteer on this Foo Fighters video back in March. The animation director was Musa Brooker, stop motion extraordinaire. I only volunteered for a day, but I did get to operate the camera for the camera move at 2:59! (Which involved being instructed to turn a dial at minute increments). Still, Foo Fighters were childhood heros of mine, Big Me was the first song I ever learned on guitar, and this was a really awesome experience!

Video was directed by Pete Levin

Here is the latest version of my demo reel!

Massive Grad School Projects Update

I'm in grad school now, and I've been making doing about 2 animation exercise projects a week. It feels good to exercise, and I'll be posting all of these very soon.