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!!!