The Interactive Drinking Game (Who That Dude?!)

Hi Autumn Society...
Here's my first video on youtube. I got together with The Feelgoods to make this "drinking game" that involves my art. You have to guess who the caricature is and if you get it wrong, you take a drink. That simple. The music is great, check it out!
Can't wait to see everyone's stuff in the upcoming shows!

Just sharing a small bit of surprised happiness

Hey guys! My (really really old and fairly bad) short that I created has been featured this week on Aniboom's youtube channel! Feel free to check it out!!

Youtubing...

For those interested, I've been uploading my video projects that I did while I was in school for my film minor and sequential art classes on Youtube.

Among them is my short Documentary / Music Video during my internship at Cartoon Network Studios for Class of 3000. Enjoy!

www.youtube.com/user/chogrin

P.S. "lil Joe" is the nickname I got at Cartoon Network, since there was already another Joe on the show, and I was the youngest of the bunch.

Charlene Chua: rendering a spacegirl in Illustrator

Watch as Charlene Chua gives Illustrator a spin here. She says the original rendering process took her around 50 minutes, and it’s sped up here to about 5 minutes.

* Voltron Painting *

For you Voltron fans and fine artists out there, I picked this up at Cartoon Brew. It's a pretty sweet process & outcome. Hope you like!




Art by Robert Burden

*To Mars*

A month or two ago I did a quick Illustration inspired by my feelings, or opinion I should say, about human kind's exploration of Mars. A lot of it came from reading many books by Robert Zubrin, specifically, The Case for Mars, which contains a beautiful quote by Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno. And so inspired by these great ideas and dreams of someday terraforming Mars and making it our second home, I made a short video, using my Illustration and the beautiful track, "108 the boat", by the amazing Ambassador Etc. Our Space program has been on hold for almost 30 years. Our last steps on the moon were in 1972. As a generation I feel, we should aim for more and achieve almost anything as many aspired to do much strongly decades ago. Anyways I just wanted to share this with you, for I feel it is important for us, our future, and our survival. With our art and visions we could inspire ourselves & other future generations to go beyond anything we could imagine.

For Eric Braddock and all you cartoonist

* Autumn Society on Youtube! *

Well, I finally sat down and dabbled with different video setting and behold, now we're on youtube!



This is a quick video I did to summarize last year's comic con (In the video are: Sam & James Heimer, Anthony Pedro, Eamon Dougherty, Maris Hare, Transformers, Daniel Trauten, and I, Chogrin). So if you think this is cool...Comic Con 08 will blow your minds! Plus, more videos of different sorts...like interviews, studio tours, and more! This is just the beginning!

* The Monkey King and the Olympics *

This is an absolutely fantastic short that tells the tale of the Monkey King (Journey to the West)...and sadly it turns out to be a commercial for the Olympics! Jaime Hewlett (Tank Girl / Gorillaz) was in charge behind this one. That guy should really make entire features like this. For now enjoy this great short gem. Thanks Eamon for the tip!

Ralph Bakshi: Surviving Tough Times

Ralph Bakshi is a veteran artist/animator who is best known for his animated features during the 70s-80s (New Adventures of Mighty Mouse,Felix the Cat, Heavy Traffic, American Pop).
Even if you don't enjoy his work his movies he ruled animation in the 70s and is one of the major force who pushed television animation away from the executive/corporation ruled stagnation to a creator/artist focus.

here's some inspiring words from the man: