Tony in print !!!!

Recently John K. had a great post on his blog with the old Tony.
Here are some of the print adds that were launched about the same time.
all images were published in Life Magazine and are between 1955-1962
I really hope you enjoy them !


This is the very first time Tony showed up ..

Inspired by the Motion Graphics

That little film got me all inspired to do some motion graphics again

Lou Romano Does the New Yorker

My good Friend Lou Romano has done this week New Yorker cover !
WOW what a great piece and if your interested in buying a Print the New Yorker has them for sale
This is nothin but Inspiration ! Great job

Just for fun...

The Big Magic Book Pilot Promo

We just finshed are 22min pilot !!! Boy o Boy am I excited on the way it turned out !
The Big Magic Book has been a fantasic project. and I've been very lucky to be a part of it .
So it's on to get this sucker picked up.!!

A just Finshed Title Seq

We just finshed the Title Seq. for THE BIG MAGIC a puppet show Piolt that Ive been very Proud to be a part of ..
This was only done by three people in are spare time .
big thanks to Ann Walker
and to Peter Michail for all there help!
And even a bigger thanks to the THE BIG MAGIC BOOK creator and director Ryan Belgarde

One day someone will bite...

You all know my love for cereal character icons . About a year ago I tried with the help of my good friends to try to reintroduce the Franken-berry cereal Gang . We came super close on this one it went always to General mills via saatchi and saatchi and was all set to do a series of Webisode. at the last minute they pulled out .

O well .... We keep throwing it against the walls one day it will stick


Here is the Gang Design by the Great Craig Kellman




Here is a Pass of poses done by Great Ann Walker




And here are some Boo poses done by Great Peter Michail


I hope you enjoy them !

small painting I did last night . .......

A Green Beaver and a Purple Frog ????

Sure anything is possible in the Big Magic Book .
I Created these puppets for two great friends of mine for one of the Seq. of the Puppet project Big Magic Book !
Also these puppets were created using ProjectPuppet.com patterns with a little bit of modification

On the Softer Side.......

Awhile back I posted some stills from this.... here is a part of it in motion. The whole piece has been playing at children film festivals for awhile now. I would love to here what you guys and gals think !

Just had a Blast doing this kinda of painting .


This was Done in Flash and Painter ( A great combo that I hope to use more of )

What's Next.........

So my time here at Renegade Animation has come to a end what a fantastic 8 years at one studio it's been .
We've simply done some amazing thing's and it was great to be part of them !
So I'm keeping my Eye out for anything interesting to move on to.

Thanks
There is so much more to do!!!

Nate Pacheco

Care for a Drink ......?

My latest puppet . Chapman the bartender! He was created using the pattern from Projectpuppet.com

my new Puppet! Ernie's 2nd cousin on his father's Side

Wasson the REALTOR !!!

My Sock puppet !! I had a blast working on this Guy!

Here is the Elmo I made for my little boy...

Here is one more monster I did!........

here is a Yeti from Hollywood that I made !!!

BTW This was made with a Projectpuppet.com pattern , If you don’t have them Buy them it will change how you make your puppets !
Thanks for your time gang

My Green Monster!!!

I love just sitin on the sofa and Painting.

A Commercial done in one shot!....

Here is a spot that Darrell and I did awhile back
It was a fake commercial done to prove a point that
You don't need 30 cuts in a 30 second commercial to make the spot effective.

Done by Kids?...

Awhile back one of are episode came up a 1 min short, So they asked me to fill the gap
This is what I came up with! O yeah there was a deadline of 3 hours .

Just for fun.....

One of my better designs...

Saturday morning my lil baby girl decided to show up!
Her name is Vespa Marie and I think she's beautiful!

Digging up some old stuff...

Before I joined Renegade I use to Design Effects. Here is some stuff I did for the South Park movie way back in 99' .

Another title Seq. that got canned!

Color keys....

These were inspired by the way Lou does his keys. I just wish I had his sense of color. O yeah these again are from The Wild...

Stills From Title Seq.

I pulled these flash frames from the Hi Hi puffy show title seq that I did.
They go by so fast in real time I thought you might what to see them.

Icon Girls from Puffy....

Ann and I had a Great time doing these icon design for the First season.

Hilton Hotels...

Here is a little spot I directed . Big thanks to my team on this one!

On the softer side...

I did these for a small 3 min. piece called "Pretty Planet"

Two more from The Wild...& Hi Hi Puffy

Peter Michail and I did the top one

More for fun...

Just for fun....

Kingdom of the Sun before the BOOT!

One more for Animation...

HELP SAVE TONY!!!

About two years ago, I tried to get a pitch off the ground to re-introduce the old Tony the Tiger for his 50th birthday.
My great friends really helped out with the pitch and we got some wonderful art together.
So please, drop Leo Burnett (agency that has the Frosted Flakes account) a email and demand a commercial with the old Tony!
Thanks
Nate


THESE ARE NOT MY DRAWINGS..

Craig Kellman...





Miles Thompson...



Lou Romano...



Conrad Vernon...

Charles Harper translated for Animation..

Working on the animation now but here are some of the Flash files.

Puffy Video Design

Ann walker and I did this Great Video together. Here is a still to give you the flavor.

Target halloween Spot.

This was a while back, but this was the first spot where I got to do the whole thing from boards to composite . These guys were just great clients.

stealing from Eyvind Da Man!

If you're going to steal, steal from the best! and learn a lil somethin'...

Beat Goes on..

Design in Motion...

One more from Mike Giamo and I.. ENJOY!

Fun with Texture!

Diamond bar! motion part2

Had a blast working with Mike Giamo and Darrell Van Citters on this one ! Diamond bar

Time for a little motion !

Renegade had Dave Wasson and Myself knock out this little spot
see it here

Renegade Animation

Renegade Animation has been the best place to work for me in the whole world...
An artist could not ask for a better place to spread his wings and fly.
Big thanks to my great friends Darrell Van Citters and Ashley Postlewaite for letting me get airborne.
http://www.renegadeanimation.com

Ben 10 Title Thumbnails

Hi Hi Puffy Video Design Boards...

Based on Some Klee paintings at the Norton Simon

Two more from The Wild...

The Wild...

One more Title Seq that went back to the shelf!

New batman Title Seq. storyboard

been working on these as of late
there based on a drawing the Jeff Matsuda did

My lil Pal

My Boy! My Boy!