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Doing this art show next Sat. with friends +Ernie Turner, +George Frei, &+STEVE PARKER. Come check out some great art & music at Thee Grotto in downtown Orlando, my latest piece "Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy" will be on display! Images coming to the blog soon, go to the Facebook event page for details:

http://www.facebook.com/events/472730879457330/

I also want to remind everybody that the FROSTED 3D anti-bullying Kickstarter campaign is still going at 20 days left and we'd love your help to make it happen! Please donate and share the link if you can!

http://kck.st/X1EQ0f


Here's a recent 20s'/30's cartoon character from my sketchbook at Dos Illustros:

http://dosillustros.blogspot.com/2013/01/20s30s-animated-character.html


And if you haven't seen "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam", the latest animated short I worked on, then head on over here to check it out! We entered it at the Florida Film Festival for 2013, crossing our fingers!

http://vimeo.com/53638798


Peaces!

-hugo


UPDATE at 4:10pm:

I was just informed that "Kleeman and Mike in Backyard Jam" was featured in YouTube's Network A Skate channel! Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NetworkASkate
http://goo.gl/WtlrS

ps. Fun fact: comedian Paul Rodriguez's son is a pro skater featured on the channel!

New Kleeman and Mike cartoon gifs

Hey guys, Randy just posted a couple of animated gifs from the new Kleeman and Mike cartoon- check them out! All done digitally in Adobe Flash by Randy Christopher:


Ruff animation October cat:

http://kleemanandmike.com/octrun02.gif



Final animation of Mike taking a skate run on the vert ramp (pretty awesome if I must say!). Mike has the Christian Hosoi look from the 80's wearing a shirt on the top back of his shorts & riding a hammerhead (reference for 80's skate fans). Check out the wood texture on the ramp:

http://kleemanandmike.com/mikerunloop_320.gif


I'll post a link to the full cartoon once Randy uploads it, from what I've seen already the thing looks pretty RAD! I also want to thank all of the Kickstarter fans that donated for their contribution since it helped pay for my work on the new cartoon. Thank you so much!!!

New Kleeman and Mike cartoon!

I'm really glad to be helping Randy Christopher (Kleeman and Mike, Bear and Fox) make another "Kleeman and Mike" cartoon! I worked on the first 2 (after he made his first Flash game with them). A bit of history, Randy and I have been friends since we used to work at the Disney theme parks in the Entertainment department and eventually left to follow our artistic education, funny we also ended up educators as well. He taught me Flash as I would help him out with animation. The 1st one got us to the Florida Film Festival! You can watch the 1st 2 cartoons here at the old site: http://kleemanandmike.com/


He's assembled an AMAZING team for this new cartoon (including Keith Milgaten of Jamuel Saxon, Spencer Rabin of Little Deadman, surfer/artist Andy Davis, and me!) but it needs your help! Please consider donating and spread the word/reblog the link below. Every little bit helps! Thank you in advance if you donate! Go to the Kickstarter page for a video from Randy and more details:


http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/695736489/kleeman-and-mike-new-animated-short

Viva Kleeman and Mike!

Nephew birthday card

So I posted the sketch and final illustration of my 1st nephew Levi's home-made 3rd birthday card at the Dos Illustros sketchblog earlier this week and wanted to post the card here with final text. This is all digitally made: sketch and final illustration was all done in Adobe Photoshop with an older Wacom Cintiq 21UX and the text/layout was made in Adobe Illustrator.