Jackie Buscarino stars in Andrew Overtoom’s darkly comic masterpiece “My Life with Morrissey”
I wrote and directed this offbeat comedy while working on season 3 of Spongebob at Nickelodeon. Jackie Buscarino’s performance as a mild-mannered office gal who catches a bad case of “rock star-itus” is fearless, hugely funny and won her a best actor award at the Black Rock Film Festival. The entire cast and crew (including a hilarious supporting actor role by soon to be famous Carla Jimenez as best friend “Virginia”) show the power of the Hollywood creative spirit. They are the folks that make Los Angeles and the film biz magical, and I applaud and remain gratefully stunned by their work and artistic achievement.
Chris Garcia from FanBoy Planet.com wrote: “A charming turned spooky comedy that grows more bizarre and unpredictable.” [5][6] Eric Campos from Film Threat.com enjoyed the film and wrote, “this is a funny goddamn movie!”[7]
Critic Stephen Dalton of The Times wrote, “Feeling at times like an end-of-term school play, this gleeful examination of deranged fan worship is a sunny cousin to Martin Scorsese’s King of Comedy”,[8] referring to the 1983 film The King of Comedy.
My Life With Morrissey is distributed by MVD, and you can stream it on Amazon Prime by clicking the animating gif above.
Click the photo below to read a review of the film from the Sonoma Film Festival…
Jackie Buscarino has a serious heart to heart with her Morrissey blow-up doll in Andrew Overtoom’s award winning indie-feature My Life With Morrissey
Along those lines, here is a favorite scene from my work on the Family Guy show: Peter, Stewie, Brian and Chris compete in an Ipecac drinking contest to win the last piece of pie in the fridge. I didn’t know what Ipecac was when I started this sequence, but I learned fast. Thanks to Seth MacFarlane & the whole crew for all the laughs!
]]>Here is a sample of the animation style I created as Head of Character Animation for the Spongebob Movie “Sponge On The Run” while working for Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles and Montreal. A sincere thank you and round of applause to all my talented animators and artists at Mikros Animation Studio who worked so hard to nail the original spirit of Stephen Hillenberg’s creation.
If you don’t see the Spongebob movie trailer click here to see it on YouTube
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Billy Dilley is the best current way to experience the genius of Aaron Springer – check out Korgoth and Spongebob Squarepants for some of his past work. I can honestly say I have rarely had as much fun working on a cartoon show than I had working on Billy Dilley. After Billy’s success on Disney Plus let’s hope Disney finally convinces Aaron to start Season 2…
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2D to 3D translation of Spongebob into Maya.
So the nice people at Paramount Pictures put me in charge of translating all of the characters from the Spongebob Squarepants 2D television show into CG models in Maya for the 3rd Spongebob movie “Sponge On The Run.” So after a lot of coffee and eyeballing old model sheets and Spongebob TV episodes – and a lot of late night modeling sessions with my partner in crime Spongebob movie Production Designer Rachel Tiep Daniels, 2D to 3D CGI Spongebob was born. Rachel and I spent a lot of time fine-tuning his final look with the modeling and surfacing teams at Mikros Animation in Montreal. By the time I moved to Montreal in early 2018 to direct animation for the movie, we had an authentic 2D to 3D translation Spongebob Squarepants CG model ready to roll in Maya. Hope you like him, Steve Hillenberg — we did our best to make you proud!
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]]>I created this title card for the HONK episode, season one of Clarence. I was going for an old-school Looney Tunes vibe. Also my glitter phase is obviously in full swing.
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