Happy New Year!

Well, here we are beginning 2025, another new year and I'm still working on projects from the last one. 

Over the Summer of 2024, my family and I flew over to Ireland to drive around and brush up on our driving skills. We visited Dublin first and then drove out to visit Kilkenny the home of Cartoon Saloon and where I got to meet and interview Fabian Erlinghauser, one of the directors there and creator of "Dorg Van Dango".

At the time, he was busy finishing up work on "Silly Sundays" and working on a new project. Here is a quick promo to the upcoming interview I will be posting soon.

There is another upcoming interview I am currently editing with Animation Director Iain Gardner who I met while we were visiting Edinburgh, Scotland. 

He had completed his animated film, "A Bear named Wojtek" which has a very similiar animation look to the films of Frédéric Back (The man who planted trees and Krak).

I visited Iain at his studio space called Animation Garden during this year's Fringe. And later, we met again when he was in LA for the Animation Summit. I am happy to report that "Wojtek" has made the shortlist for this year's upcoming Academy Awards.

Below is a short look at some of the people who visit the "Wojtek" statue in Edinburgh.

And finally, an interview I had with one of my animation heroes, Paul Driessen. He recently publish his autobiography called "My Life in Cartoons". I was amazed to find out that he worked on the first Beatles cartoons which eventually lead to an animation job on "The Yellow Submarine". This was his animation school for learning what he liked to do and eventually making his own films.

I hoping to get these all finished up before February or so. Until then...

Happy New Year!