New Animation Class at PNCA CE!

Hi! I am offering an intro to animation class at PNCA this winter. This is an adult class for people who have been excited to try animating but either don't know the who, what, how's or would just like more support for embarking on their own future projects. I am really excited about this class! If you know anybody in the Portland area who might be interested in learning to tell stories through animation or dazzle their dears with color dances, please share this link with them:

Animation Fundamentals Class at PNCA CE

There is a syllabus posted there which gives a better idea of the class than the course description.  Thank you!

All Ages Productions site is up and at 'em!

All Ages Productions Reel from All Ages on Vimeo.

I've joined forces with 2 Philadelphian light trappers, Ted Passon & Dave Dunn, to form All Ages Productions, a new video collective / life-force.  Check out our new website!
http://www.allagesproductions.com/

Toaster the cutest writer kitten pleads for your help! Can you help Toaster and the IPRC?

Eugene Weekly

Thanks for sending the photo Laura!

Please support the IPRC through the Give!Guide

Hey everybody! It's Give!Guide season and the IPRC could really use
your support. I have been volunteering at this magical Independent
Publishing Resource Center for years and it is a rare and beautiful
non-profit that is largely fueled by volunteers, donations, and the
support of its members. Anything you can give would be a tremendous
help to us, but if you give $50 or more you will also get a year long
membership to the IPRC plus fancy incentives from the Give!Guide like Stumptown Coffee.

To find out more about the IPRC visit the site:
www.iprc.org 

and to offer your support to the IPRC please visit:
https://giveguide.oaktree.com/Donate.aspx
(IPRC is listed under 'Arts')

I'm an Auntie!!

Welcome Maeve!!

Congratulations to dear friends Warren & Anna!

Poppovich

 

Here's what I made for the NBA show.

American Motorcyclist Magazine

These paintings are featured in this month's AMA Magazine.  Yow!  Special thanks to my Pa for submitting our project and for his patience and help, Misty for working so hard to track me down, and to bikebandit.com for the BIG present!

Show at the Henry Art Gallery

O where the paintings will go!  In the great year of 2000 I made some paintings that were shown at New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood and sold to this powerful TV executive and art collector.  A few years ago this Mr. Valentine donated these paintings to the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and they are now part of their permanent collection.  Last week I got this email that one of the paintings has been included in this show:

"Your work Untitled (business seminar), which is part of the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection, is currently on display at the Henry in the exhibition SuttonBeresCuller: Panoptos. The exhibition will run from October 2, 2010-February 13, 2011.

For this exhibition the artists, John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler, selected over 150 two-dimensional and three-dimensional works from the museum’s collection that were then hung “salon style,” in the museum’s East Gallery. In front of this multi-faceted presentation, the artists’ installed a custom-made apparatus that transports a high definition camera along the x- and y-axes of this grid-like installation. In an adjacent gallery, visitors can steer the camera remotely, selecting and zooming in on details of works in the installation. These details are viewed in this space and uploaded to the Web for others to see. Images from the exhibition can be viewed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/henryartgallery/. "

How about that?

This painting is so old I don't even know where I have pictures of it!  There are a couple of pictures of it HERE on their Flickr stream.

Tomorrow night!

Heavy Metal Heart

This is gonna be SO lovely.

Comin' right up!

Just found these old towel lounge singer images in the archives...

Youth Animation Class at PNCA

Oh boy!  I am offering an animation class through the Continuing Education Program at PNCA.  It is for youngsters 13-15 years old.  We are going to do all kinds of super fun projects and the students will come away from the class with a mini-reel and a strong understanding of the basic principles of animation.  Now all we need to get it going is students!  If you know anyone who might be interested in taking this class please direct them HERE to learn more about it.  Thanks!

All Ages Productions

I am part of a trilogy of motion picture makers who combine forces on full and new moons to prepare videos.  To investigate this claim, please visit.

Have you seen her?

Yeti 9 Out Now!

Available from YETI PUBLISHING

Personal Stylist

The Cheaper Show

Tonight in Vancouver BC, The Cheaper Show opens!  200 artists, 400 pieces of art, $200 each.   I’ve got a couple of guys in there…  For more details: http://thecheapershow.com/

Oh no!  There are literally spiderwebs enveloping my skateboard! 

Country Club Paintings for sale online

Reading Frenzy has posted an online shop for the new Country Club paintings.  HERE it is!

Go-Time on Firestone Peak

This guy is currently for sale in my new show "Country Club" at Reading Frenzy.  Contact Chloe for more information / purchase.  I just posted most of the artwork on the For Sale page of my site HERE if you'd care to paruse the pickins.

A new painting for Country Club

Solo Show at Reading Frenzy Opening June 3rd!

Normal School Issue 4 is OUT!

Look out for this thing at a newsstand near you!  I just heard from good ol' T-dog up in Seattle that it is out and on the shelves.  He is an eye witness.  I made this cover artwork and also did some spot illustrations inside of there....  I haven't seen it yet myself.  I can't wait to read Justin Hocking's story!

I have a couple of animations screening in this light parade!

ODDS AND ENDS PRESENTS: FROM PORTLAND WITH LOVE

Sunday, May 02 at 5:00PM
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA

A rain soaked digital love letter featuring NEW Experimental, Documentary and Animation work from the hearts, minds and soul's of Stumptown's finest film and video artists: Vanessa Renwick, Matt McCormick, Cassie Cohn, Brian Libby, Jeff Guay, Karl Lind, Cat Tyc, Lori-D, Stephan Nedalman, Carl Diehl, Andrew Klaus, Dustin Zemel and more!
More details HERE

I miss this one

Eye Openers!

Here is a rough test of the animation I made with dear friends Stefan Gruber and Tim Miller a couple of days ago.  It will be divided into 3 separate flipbooks and should be available in time for Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland next weekend!

Thank You Helen Hill Fund!

I just found out Seana Kozar and I are being awarded this grant to finish our films!

I can't believe it!  THANK YOU!!!!! 

Helen is one of my biggest animation and life living inspirations!

If you aren't familiar with her beautiful films you can find out more about them here:

http://helenhill.org
But better yet, if you are going to be in LA on April 24th you should go see some of them in person and help support the completion of her her last film, "The Florestine Collection"!

Here's the info:
Saturday, April 24, 8 pm
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.)
Los Angeles, CA. 90026
(213) 484 - 8846
info@echoparkfilmcenter.org


FUNDRAISER FOR THE FLORESTINE COLLECTION: 8 pm, Saturday, April 24. Helen Hill was an experimental filmmaker and film teacher who made many fun, inspiring, and original short films. At the time of her murder in New Orleans in January 2007, Helen was working on The Florestine Collection, a thirty-minute animation and live action documentary about 100 hand-sewn dresses she found in the trash on the side of the road. Her husband Paul Gailiunas decided to finish the movie as a 16 mm film and needs to raise funds for the last steps in the filmmaking process. Please join us to see a fifteen-minute preview of The Florestine Collection, as well as other short experimental films by Helen and several of her filmmaking friends. Copies of a DVD compilation of Helen's films will be on sale. Kids are welcome!

Just finished this cover art for the new YETI!

I'll let ya know when it's available!

For now you can have a look at some past issues.

It's quite a treasure trove.

http://yetipublishing.com/

Landscape Altered Episode 1 is up!

I had a really great time at NOVA!  Thanks to everybody who came to my workshop.  NOVA is a really inspiring school.  What lucky rascals!  While I was up in Seattle, I had the great honor of making 3 collaborative flipbooks with 2 of my favorite humans, Stefan Gruber and Tim Miller.  The trilogy is called EYE OPENERS and hopefully will be printed in time for Stumptown Comicfest.  They are wild eye rides.
HERE is the first episode of Kai's fabulous new Landscape Altered series.. for which I made some animated titles:

I'm going up to NOVA in Seattle to do another little animation workshop tomorrow.

Free Flipbooks Class For Youth Tomorrow at the IPRC!

I will be teaching a flipbooks class tomorrow at the IPRC for young humans.  We may even make some zoetropes if we have enough time!  If you know any youngsters in Portland who might like to attend, please send them to sign up HERE.

I designed & animated the titles for this here...

Landscape Altered - Teaser from Kai Neville on Vimeo

I can't wait to see the episodes!

One of the IPRC panels...

I haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but here's one from the IPRC website..

Lady Secrets

Just finished this today.  It's already for sale online HERE.

First Thursday Opening at the IPRC tomorrow!

C'mon down to the IPRC in downtown Portland Oregon sometime between 6 and 8pm and have a look at these big oafs.  I took them over there today for a special delivery between rainclouds.

This week!

April 1st
I made 2 BIG paintings for the IPRC's new conference room.  We are going to have an unveiling on first Thursday at 6pm.  Maybe there will be snacks!  I am also gonna bring a copy of Dear & Yonder down there and we are going to have a mini screening at 8pm.  Karl Lind is generously bringing his projector over there to show it with.  If you haven't seen it already, it is a really inspiring documentary about some amazing women in the surfing community past and present.

Travis & Mel are going to Oz!

Dear friends Mel Kadel & Travis Millard are going down under to give a talk as part of the Semi-Permanent 2010 Conference in Sydney Australia next Friday, March 19th.  Maybe you are gonna be in Sydney and can go!  More info and tickets are available HERE.
They are also gonna be in this group show while they're over there:

Art for Ted Lennon's new song...

Just made this art for my friend Ted Lennon's sunny new song 'Helio' which should be available on itunes real soon!

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Intro to Animation workshop next weekend in San Diego, CA

I've been invited to be a visiting artist and teach an Intro to Animation Workshop for teenagers next weekend by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.  If you know any teenagers in San Diego who might like to make some animation, send em over!  More details HERE.