Here's to a Happy New Year!

Wishing all a happy new year! I am honored to be in the company of so many talented artists and wonderful people! Wishing that 2011 is productive and wonderful for all of you!!See ya next year!

New designs added to our Cafe Press shop!

New designs added to our Cafe Press shop! The DJ cat is decked out in his triple fat just in time for the holidays!

Get yours!! Prices have been slashed for the holidays!

www.PshirtsNYC.com

Happy Holidays!

I got inspired to post an image of a custom card that I designed for a client who also happens to be a big fan of the line of Sparky books that we produce! Happy Holidays!

Shop Pilar Toons!

Hi All! Announcing our new online shop where you can buy tshirts and other fun stuff with our cool designs on them! This is a perfect time to start your holiday shopping.
These cool designs were debuted at the Ottawa International Animation Festival's Aniboutique store!

Give us a visit: www.PshirtsNYC.com

Investmentization!

Episode 77 of the web series that I direct and animate has just been completed! You can view it here!

Jazzy bird

Working on birds, I love incorporating music into art!

Developmental art from the new short!

Some more developmental art for the upcoming short! I am working on finishing and updating the animatic. Stay tuned I will keep you posted!

A lizard comes out of mothballs

I am so excited! I have resurrected an animatic for a short that I had started over 8 years ago. This character is close to my heart. I had presented the animatic at an ASIFA open screening years and years ago and I still have folk coming up to me to say that they remembered the animatic and when am I gonna finish it?
Thank you to all who have encouraged me to get back to work on this and for reminding me that this little guy is memorable!
Stay tuned!!































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doodlin'

I was just noodling around last night. This is my tribute to Ray from Princess and the Frog-my favorite character! Last night I got inspired when I was at my friend's jazz show. I drew this on the back of a receipt and later painted it digitally. Dr. Facilier is sneaking up on him... So far all I know how to draw of him from memory is his hat and eyes!

The Kids

I started sketching these kids and started animating one of them recently. Stay tuned! They remind me of the kids that I grew up with
in Brooklyn.

Kabbalatoons Episode 70 in production!

When the folks at Chabad.org approached me and asked me to develop an animated webtoon with them I never dreamed that here I would be about to start production on episode 70 two years later! These one-minute snippets are seen all over the world. I have gotten emails from folks as far away as Israel and munich. The other day Rabbi Freeman, who writes the episodes recieved an email from a fan in Malaysia! It is a joy to work on these episodes, here's to many more!

If you want to check it out you can view the latest episode here:

Tough stuff...

More noodling around...

Stay tuned...

Even though the past few months have been pretty busy I've been finding time to noodle around with some character designs. I have some independent projects that I have been developing. Stay tuned!

In a while, crocodile!

I have been plugging away over the past couple of months. I am honored to have had my brand new short, "Croca Bonga" be screened at the Philadelphia Filmathon last month! The Philadelphia Filmathon is an annual event that is put on by the wonderful folks at Project Twenty1! They bring filmmakers (animators and live action alike) together every year to create a film in 21 days! For those of us that did not get a chance to participate and create a film in that amount of time we have the Philadelphia Filmathon to submit to! A wonderful festival indeed!
Croca Bonga will be appearing at a festival near you!
For those of you that can't make it out to the festivals here is my short for its internet debut!

Demo Reel

Hi All!
I've really been neglecting my blog and I promise I'm going to start writing/drawing again! This past month has been amazing and I'm on a creative high right now! I have alot to write about! In the meantime, check out my demo reel. Thanks for letting me share!

Been neglecting my blog but alot's been happening!!!

The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind! I've been doing a complete and total overhaul on my website, it is almost finished and I am pretty proud of how it's coming out! And last week the music video that I animated for a wacky song called "My Sister's Butt" was shown at the ASIFA East animation festival and won the award for humor in 2 minutes and over category!!
I am proud as all heck to be a part of the new York animation scene!
I am busy finishing up my independent short, getting it ready to start sending out to festival deadlines that are coming up!
Thanks for checking in! These photos are from that night at ASIFA!
See you soon in the blog-verse!

doodlin'

Some doodling-having fun doing idea sketches. I came across a guy on the subway, the loud talker, tough talking guy telling stories with foul language but still lovable kind of guy. I started drawing him and he became a character I've been sketching him on napkins and notebook paper ever since. Not sure what I'm gonna do with the idea but i think i might want to do a comic strip sort of thing.

Some Baddies

I sketched this a couple of weeks ago and wanted to color it. Bad baddies you wouldn't want to run into in a dark Mumbai alley!

A logo I designed for a musician friend that has his own business

Finished art finally...

This is the last stage of my work in progress! It's less of a work on progress and more of a finished work! I hope they like it! I'm happy with how it turned out. Thanks for letting me share! ( I did a few teaks to it and re-uploaded it-i had forgotten to add my signature!)