Archive for October, 2008

Bookplate in place!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I don’t know who this strange bearded man is, but strangely he’s holding the Venice Chronicles with one of the bookplates mounted! I think this one order is going to Venice if I am not mistaken … to Leornardo (Grazie Leo, it’s on its way). I’ve sent a lot of orders these last couple of [...]

UP poster

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I love the first teaser poster for UP. It’s been a pleasure working with Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and Ronnie on this movie for the past 3 years … I am almost done with my work on it …

White Gold

Monday, October 13th, 2008

This is some funny stuff! The couple of videos are hilarious and the White Gold website is milkatastical. The Got Milk campaign is always so creative, great job. Remember the awesome Get the Glass animated online board game? Great stuff.

finished bookplates

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Here’s a few of the finished bookplates! I’ve started shipping the first orders last week, so you should start seeing books arrive soon!

Reminder – World Wide SketchCrawl 20

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

The 20th global drawing marathon day is around the corner, on October 25th!! Help us make this that biggest world wide drawing day ever; 50 different locations around the globe already signed in at the SketchCrawl forums, let us know where you’ll be drawing on that day!!! In San Francisco, we’ll be sketching in the [...]

the un-boxing

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

It’s become tradition for us selfpublishing friends here at Pixar to take photos of the opening of the first box of books. Here’s some coverage of it all, even with a shot of the first customer: Nate Stanton! Yay, thanks Nate. In the second to last shot, you can see the Venice Chronicles in good [...]

They are here!!!

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

2085 copies of the Venice Chronicles have just been delivered!! Yay! Wow, 58 boxes of books, my back is gonna be a little sore tonight. Anyway … they look great, at 144 pages it’s a nice and hefty book. Order yours today!! I will also start shipping the pre-orders as soon as I can! More [...]

Our little bundle

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I think it’s safe to say Fio is liking the new camera, she’d be quite happy to eat it if we let her. And yes she can sit up now and even crawl backwards … foreword maybe in a day or two. Amazing the rate at which they grow and learn.

Meeting Ronald Searle

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Wow, animator Matt Jones had a chance of spending a few hours with Ronald Searle! Check the retelling of his visit here and don’t miss his Searle tribute blog.

Ignatz awards

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

I was rooting for Jillian Tamaki in this year’s Ignatz awards. So I was so happy to see Skim by Jillian and her cousin Mariko Tamaki winning the Outstanding Graphic Novel category. Winners were announced at the Small Press Expo this weekend, full list here. Previously on this blog:Skim and Jillian’s Totoro Forest piece.