iMattress Commercial

Animated aliens selling bedding. Here's a commercial for iMattress we worked on recently at world famous Pencil Test Studios.

Director/Editor/Music/FX: Bill O'Neil, Chicago Spots
Animation: Ed Schofield and Mike Dietz, Pencil Test Studios
Agency: Capitalist Agency in Chicago.
Producer: Garry Gassel

No More Kings - "Robots Don't Cry"

Here's a Mini-Music-Video we animated at Pencil Test Studios to promote the song "Robots Don't Cry" by our good friend Pete Mitchell and his band No More Kings. Visit their site and buy their music at http://www.nomorekings.com and iTunes.
Steve Guttenberg!

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Pencil Test Studios On Cold Hard Flash!

Check it out. Pencil Test Studios' animated spots for Public Storage are featured today on Aaron Simpson's Cold Hard Flash. Click on the image above and it'll take you directly there.

Pencil Test Studios Site Update

Another website update: we just launched the redesign of our Pencil Test Studios website. Lots of new samples... check it out here.

Disney "Parachutes" TV Ad

Pencil Test Studios, the new animation house I opened with Ed Schofield (mentioned below), recently finished work on a commercial for Disneyland Paris. It was a fun project, combining live action, CG and hand drawn animation all to great effect. The main production company was Motion Theory, who directed the spot and handled the very challenging compositing work. The hand drawn animation was provided by Duck Studios and we handled all the animation of Woody and Buzz. All the other CG Pixar characters were created by pulling existing animation from Pixar films and compositing them into the spot.

We don't have the spot up on the Pencil Test Studios site yet, but Motion Theory just posted it on theirs. You can check it out here.

Pencil Test Studios

Ed Schofield and I recently opened a new animation shop, Pencil Test Studios, located in sunny Irvine, California. Ed and I have worked together on and off for years now, collaborating on numerous projects like Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, the Neverhood, Koghead and Meatus, The PJ's, and many many more. Ed's an extraordinary animator who keeps a low profile and as a result never gets the credit he deserves. Trust me though, he's a workhorse and is the backbone of any project he works on.

So far PTS has completed contract work on a couple game projects as well as two TV commercials for Disney featuring Pixar's Buzz and Woody from Toy Story. We're also working on an iPhone game and an animated short, both slated for release later this year.

You can check out some of our work here and read our latest press release here.