MOVING TO NEW YORK

Since September 2005 I’ve been doing freelance character design work on “Horton Hears a Who” for Blue Sky Studios in White Plains, New York. In October I accepted a full-time position with them so Deb and I are packing up and heading east in the new year.

HAPPY TREE FRIENDS: "PROTECTING THE SLOPES"

I just finished designing and directing a Happy Tree Friends episode entitled “Protecting the Slopes.” This happens to be one of their “irregular” episodes where a guest director redesigns the show in an entirely different style. So far the cast has been portrayed in a black and white, 1920s “rubber hose” style and a high-action, anime style. My treatment is a late 1940s/early 1950s cold war industrial film style. Lumpy demonstrates how to become an elite member of the ski patrol in this instructional film.

The new "cold-war" character line-up

How to administer oxygen

Patient evacuation

Cuddles never without his "bunny slippers"

Early design work

HOLIDAY FILM

This year rather than designing a Christmas card I decided to do a short film. It's entitled “Dino Assembly” and the music is Mike Oldfield’s version of “In Dulci Jubilo” that my wife Deborah turned me on to.

Dino Assembly from Jason Sadler on Vimeo.