CHRIS ALLISON, PART 6 (March Post)

Hey there pencil pushing Titan hopefuls!

I’m busy planning a Macromedia Flash workshop to be held by the Pencil Mileage Club soon. Myself and fellow animator (and beard growing extraordinaire) Mike Nassar were fortunate enough to intern at Titmouse Studios. We worked on the show Metalocalypse on Adult Swim, amongst other sweet projects. It was a great experience and the owners, Shannon and Chris Prynoski, were really nice people.

I heard about Titmouse from two stellar artists, Mike Roush and Richard
Pose, who work there. You guessed it, Mike Roush and Richard Pose
are both CSUF alums. They told me about the projects they were working
on, and how Titmouse is doing television animation, HERE, in the good ol’ US of A. And what great stuff! You gotta check out Titmouse’s reel on the
website.

Anyhoo, we picked up a ton of great tricks in Macromedia Flash.
Metalocalypse and a couple commercials that we worked on were all animated using Flash. Mike and I got hands on experience, and now we’re coming back to CSUF to share the knowledge. The great thing about CSUF is that there are possibilities to learn EVERYWHERE. Learning doesn’t stop when the teacher leaves the room, because there are tons of great students here that help each other out. And it doesn’t just happen when you’re at school. Mike and Richard got me into contact with the studio owners and really helped me land the big gig.

This image is a little teaser shot of the introduction to THE BOMB 2007, which will be premiered at this year’s CSUF Film Festival! (See my early March post on The BOMB.) We used a lot of tricks we
learned from Titmouse on it! Shhh, don’t tell anybody you saw this.

That’s all for now. Have a great one folks!

Your pal,
Chris
TITMOUSE INC
METALOCALYPSE