I thought it might be fun to publish the animatic I made before creating Tally Hall’s video for “Turn The Lights Off”. This was helpful for planning and for making sure the band was happy with the concept. Plus now you can see all the corners I ended up cutting!

The nerd penguin is my friend Calvin, and the poor, winter-stranded penguin is Justin, who does lefthandedtoons with me.

SPOILER: One of the endings features an appearance by a character from a game I made.

Today was the annual Halloween Dog Parade at Tompkins Square Park in New York. We brought our dog, Rosco. He was a superdog. It was ridiculous.

Here are my photos.

Here are my photos from 2010 and 2009.

I’ve wanted to make an animated video for this song for a long time, and I got the opportunity to make it mine back in August. I finally finished it about a week ago, just in time for Halloween.

If you haven’t heard Tally Hall yet, check them out.

Thanks to Sean Donnelly, from Awesome & Modest, who helped with the final file conversion, added some glow and depth to the video, and taught me some things about After Effects in the process. Sean did Tally Hall’s Ruler Of Everything video.

…to Spinnerdisc! You’ll find some flash cartoons, drawings, music, comics, and whatever I feel like posting.

For those of you used to the old front-page, you can still find it here: http://spinnerdisc.com/old.html This new version will help me update frequently. Get excited.

The characters at the end come from my first flash cartoon. They never appeared again, unfortunately. The rabbit’s name is Poq and the blue guy is named Nostril.

I began collecting my voicemails and animating them. Here’s the first batch…

Hey, Albert’s got a joke…