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Monday, July 03, 2006

mojomann launches!!!



mojomann.com

YEAH!! My portfolio site finally is up and running. It has been a long time in development. This is the third design and the first one to actually launch!

I have to give some big kudos to a couple of guys that have helped me out. First off is my man, Adam Venturella! He is a excellent web developer I work with. Adam helped in the direction to code my site in and has been a great inspiration, motivator and good bud too. Next up is another co-worker and good friend, Jon Yuskus. Jon is awesome cold fusion devloper. He has helped me work the kinks out of some of my html (note we still have some to attend too!)Without these two chaps, I would still be a couple months off from launching! Thanks guys!!

Last but not least is to thank my loving wife, Juanita. She has been patient as I have worked and re-worked this project, while shuffling several other personal projects as well as helping her raise our duaghter Kayliegh and our new baby, Alexa. Hard to believe that this design was started last year about this time, right before we were blessed with Alexa. All three of my girls are my inspiration. God has blessed me. I love ya J, K and little A.

To all my web buddies and deviantArt friends, thanks for your support, the best is yet to come (I hope!!)

Sunday, July 02, 2006

New Look and a little tease

As promised, I have posted a new skin for mojomannimation. It goes with my personal site, mojomann.com. And now for the tease...

I have been working on a new animation short/trailer/teaser for a little while and I wanted to let everyone see a little of the progress. The short is based on the upcomming Hellboy animated shows that will be on Cartoon Network. Over the July 4th holiday, I hope to have my new website complete and up. It will have a microsite just for the Hellboy short with all sorts of goodies. For now here is a tease for you all. Of course the sharp ones will notice a certain red guy in the header of the new design too.



Thanks to 'Cheeks' for the heads up, I forgot to mention a few credits for this. Hellboy is © of Mike Mignola, Hellboy Animated is © of IDT Entertainment and Revolution Studios. The background is a reference posted previously at the Hellboy Animated Blog and is owned by IDT Entertainment and Revolution Studios. It's for this shot only and won't be in my animation. The pose is referenced from a sculpt by the talented sculptor, Tony Cipriano which is based off of the production designs by my friend, Sean 'Cheeks' Galloway...whoo, lots of credit to go around. Like the Justice Leauge trailer I did, this is inspired by the works of many wonderful artist that are involved with the actual production. I want to pay homage to their work and the character that I love so much. Everything in my animation is being recreated or designed by me in vector format so it will be easier to animate and so I am not using the actual works from the production. Going forward any references based on production work will be duly noted with credit to any indivuduals and said copyright holders.