the hardest grafiti around

this dude gets major street cred. (in dumbo)

also of interest: jd and i are voice acting for a flicker labs cartoon show! i never knew actors had it so easy.

vacation

wow it felt nice to peel my face off the cintiq for a few days.
brooklyn to provincetown:














ps: be sure to check out jeff scher's new film for the times! I did the waves, the starfish, and a few other silly shots.

sid gets off the boat

hi friends,
first off, here are some great forest backgrounds from disney's paul bunyan short. i wish i had known about these sooner.

and secondly, here is an animation and compositing test from the boat scene.

i think that hilda looks too young, so i will change her outfit to a sporty jumpsuit/windbreaker i remember that grandma had. i also remember hilda throwing sidney a banana from inside the boat and sidney missing it. then we watched the banana float away into the sun.

happy late summer!

Sidney on the run

hi friends,
this week i made an animation and compositing test. i'm still messing around with the colors, but as you may notice I'm taking a lot of influence from upa and hanna barbera layouts, and hopefully the wonderful mary blair .
more to come soon.

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Sid The Killer Animatic

i have been taking a little break from the blogosphere to enjoy the summer sun, and try my hand at some freelance work, but recently the mayor of blake city and J&D attorney at law notified me that a post was long overdue, and they threatened legal action.

So,... I have been working on boards for a new short about my grandpa, and I would love to hear what you think! Comments, suggestions, opinions are all gratefully appreciated.

Sid The Killer from Harry Teitelman on Vimeo.

great show!!

hey everyone thanks for making the spring show a success! it was great to see some of the new york animation giants show up as well. fran krause, a superjail inmate, posts about it here.

i regret not being able to attend the dusty's, and i would really like to get together an impromptu inter school thesis screening, but this may be a tough task to coordinate. in any event, there is certainly a lot of new talent on this little island, indeed.

may 7th!

praises to the lord

i am sorry the posts have been a little slim these days, and probably will continue to be for the next month while andrew and i try and finish our film. hopefully this short experimental film will tide you over.
the players:
cannie chon (evil spirit number 2)
blak road johnson: (evil spirit 1, 3-6)
hairy man: (the evangelist)

music: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings.html

100 hands

this should really be viewed on a loop for best results. oh well, i'll post draft 2 soon, with more cussin yall.

more badland

these are some shots from working in the green screen room with my miniature sets. now the rest is up to the computer!
-big ups to J and D Amato, attorney at law for coming by to be a special guest DP (and also taking the production stills). very nice man to work with. I owe you a fruit salad.

sketchy

one of these sketches is an interpretation of the mayor of blake city's dream. can you guess which one?

nuthin but love

This weekend I painted Dominique Wilkins at Luv's Barber shop. Luv says that Dominique was his idol growing up and that not enough young cats today know who he is. He also thinks that his brother Gerald was nice. I have never really painted a mural before so I took a cue from a talent named Matt Luckhurst.




My boy George came by on day 1 and helped me fill it out. He was trying to keep his mouth shut when some guys were talking trash about D McNabb.

dominique wilkins

matthew ritchie

Last night, marie and i attended a rather fascinating lecture given by Matthew Ritchie at NYU's IFA. Ritchie talked a lot about how artists should use all of the available information that there is instead of reverting back to and referencing or paying homage to what has already been done (ya know, heaven hell, "the implosion of the art world"). He uses the concept of information as a source of inspiration, believes that information itself can become form, and break the space time continuum by traveling back in time. I didn't know that space time was shaped like a cone.
I respect him tremendously, I find his work fasciniting although unemotional. my only rub with the guy is that all of his lofty ideas about string theory and the shapes of the universe in isometric view are not at all evident for most normal people, and I suspect not even for quantum theorists. Regardless, I am not sure if we need to know where artists draw their inspiration from to appreciate it through our own lens, but Ritchie is certainly a good and funny talker so it might help to look at some of his interviews n' stuff.
Here are my lecture notes.

matte paintings

lately, i've been working on matte painting for our film's backgrounds. they have ended up being a mixture of miniature sets, photographic reference, and photoshop painting. 

although i am pretty happy with the way these look and ultimately think they are more beleiveable, i still remain nostalgic for the original photograph. even though things are slightly out of perspective, the original has a certain charm that the painted one doesn't. oh well. 

what do you think? (more to come soon!!)