Having a blast working at Nickelodeon Studios. Luckily I got a spot on the Story team for the new Kung Fu Panda TV show. So far the show seems very funny and everybody on the crew is extremely talented and friendly. I hope to post some artwork from a few of the iphone apps that I am currently developing. Hope you all are doing well, see you in the blogosphere!

Have a look at these two commercials. I was lucky to work on with some of my favorite people: Kathleen Quaife, John Armstrong, Jeff Zikry and all the amazing animators and artist over at Buck Studios. I was the 2D Supervisor for the EFX animation on these two spots. We had great direction by Jeramey Sahlman, Ryan Honey, and Joe Mullen. The 3D Maya artist at Buck gave us so much to work with and then after the 2D was finished the After Effects Artists made it all seamless. It was a great two months working in Downtown LA. Commercial Animation is a fast pace team sport and Buck does it well.

http://www.buck.tv/work/cokeburn/couple

"Wild Will of Earth", another with Mr. Jason Brubaker!

These are some presentation pages for two shows I'm working on with the fabulous Michael Cadwallader Jones!

OK, it's been so long since I have joined in I will just post a bunch of stuff from this past year 2009. This next bunch is from my time at DreamWorks working on "The Secrets Of The Furious Five" shorts. This was easily one of my favorite jobs yet. First off I got to work with Nico Marlet's !!amazing!! designs. He sets the bar so high and I fall far short of his mastery but we humans need to work too. So here are some pages from my portfolio. Some simplifications of existing designs, some original designs they needed specifically for the shorts and mixed in some simple costume design.

Roughs for a show Jason Brubaker and I are pitching around town

Here are two 2-minute sketches I did the other night. It's been a long while and it felt great!
I've been very busy these past eight months. After finishing work at DreamWorks animating and designing on the "Secrets of the Furious Five" I started over at Starz Film Roman storyboarding on a Marvel TV show ("Super Hero Squad"). I'm also designing characters for one of the Tinkerbell movies over at Disney Toon Studios; I'm having lots of fun on this one. I did some character design work for Nickelodeon for there upcoming Kung Fu Panda TV series. I was super lucky to work with Bob Kurtz on a new Schoolhouse Rock short film "Tiny Urban Zoo", Bob Directed. I designed the characters, BGs, Color, and did half of the boarding, soooo much fun. I also directed a short film for Disney entitled “Legend Of The Chihuahua” for the DVD release of “the Beverly Hills Chihuahua” (I know, I know). We had very little time and very little money but what a great crew, they gave 110%. All work done freelance over the web, lots of phone calls. And last but not least, I've started a business with a few of my very talented friends developing iPhone apps. Applying our animation experience to this wonderful opportunity just drives me crazy with optimism.
Oooooooo, and one last thing and absolutely the most important one, my wife Jeannine gave birth to our little boy Mateo Dante Pignotti. He's just over six months old now. So, three have become four and we are so very grateful!!!

A short film I hope to make sometime soon...

A little before and after.

For my "Fly" show "A Day And A Life"

Some new Color for Rufus.  

Just had a 5.8 Earthquake here in LA hope everybody is OK out there!

I'm going a bit crazy with the textures.

Another Earthy Toned Post

Happy 4th to all!!!

Have wild time and get home to your families.

Drawing with the lasso tool.

Strange Doodle

I fixed this drawing in PhotoShop. I had drawn her legs about one head too short. I know that I should always error on the longer side but I was rushing to get the whole figure on the page and just missed it. So, I just selected her legs in PS and stretched them down; I can't tell can you?

Lunch time drawing! These are hit and miss but I had a great time.

Check out this clip or "The Mr. Men Show" over at Cold Hard Flash. I storyboarded this episode "invention". Nice to see it all finished up, in color and animated! Great job Renegade. Can't wait to see more.

http://coldhardflash.com/2008/01/mr-men-show-cartoon-network-premiere.html

Some more from the fly project

I’m not sure if I’ll clean it up in Flash or paint it in Photoshop.
I’m going for a Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post type layout.

My friend Joe

A show I been pitching around town with Michael D'Ambrosio

Roughing up Rufus

Same designs as in the earlier post but in color.
I did these on my Cintiq and in Sketchbook Pro

Working on some color and costume design.


I'm not real happy with the Rufus design yet. Need to make his eyes less crazed.
I wanted to see what plaid would look like in Flash. Still might be too hard to animate on a small budget.

Hey you all, if you have the time leave a comment. I see people that stop by from all over the world. I would love to know what you do and a little about where you live. I know I hardly ever leave comments because I'm surfing the web at 3am bouncing from blog to blog when I should be asleep in bed.
It would be great to meet even if it is just in a post!
- Phil

Here are a bunch I've been working on. Nothing quite done yet but having fun and learning as I go.

Some designs I did late 06 sometime.

Life Drawing Fun.

Here are some designs I did for a project my friend Dan Lund is pitching around town entitled,
"Hildy Hildy". His name, Zephyrus, a poet performance artist.

Circus Engines!

A little Hamster show I've working on with my good friend Mike Jones.

Some development work I did for Cartoon Network's "Reanimated" well I was at Renegade Animation. I did a lot of the initial flash setup on the main characters. I guess now that it's aired about a thousand times it's safe to post this.

Here's how he turned out after a good back and forth on the design with Brian.
He was cleaned up in Flash.

Here are a few drawings I did for a viking show I'm developing with my friend Brian Hatfield.

Raccoon et Flies 

A Variation