some early fruitiness

Early concepts...

you're sick of zombies, right?

Kid606 - Mr. Wobble's Nightmare



director - Joel Trussell
dp & editor - Michael Samstag
animators - Anna & Mike Hollingsworth, Joel Trussell
camera - Matthew Rogers
lighting - Jeff Reed
musician - Kid606

loaders earvaders morituri te salutant

Loaders Earvaders Morituri Te Salutant from PSST! on Vimeo.

I forgot to mention... the good Chris Fox helped animate this one. Thank ye Chris!

new joeltrussell.com

LA was great as always... met up with tons of talented people. The Flux screening at the Hammer Museum of PSST! Pass It On 3 was crampacked! Went up on stage after the show with Bran Doughtery-Johnson and Brian Gossett to rock a live exquisite corpse which was good times and met up with the Radical Friend crew afterward.

In more recent news though, no longer "coming soon" is the new joeltrussell.com. It was designed by the talent giants Also Design and the code wizardry rocked by No Ponies. Have a look, will ya?

psst preview

psst pass it on!

I'm headed to LA to attend the PSST Pass It On premiere. I was lucky to participate with such other talents such as Fons Schiedon, members of Shynola and the great Joey Garfield. I'll be in town for a few days so let's hook it up!

frederator's good peoples

hey it's a new year and all

2008 was pretty alright, right? I dug it. Let's hope 09 is even better.

Channel Frederator's setting it off with a nice quickie interview... HERE

Oh and I'm gonna try out this Twitter thing for a minute too. Maybe it's fun?...
http://twitter.com/joeltrussell

portland flickr bomb

just dropped a ton off over at flickr about the Portland show

tonight in portland

the grassy knoll gallery
123 nw 2nd avenue
2nd floor portland, ore 97209
6-9 PM

Still more work to do this morning. Roll through if you can!

more previewish stuff

the lab

updates and previews

Ok so recently I finished up a clip that I was luckily invited to direct for the new season of Yo Gabba Gabba. Equally lucky, I was invited to show the Morcheeba "Enjoy The Ride" and Jakob Dylan "Evil Is Alive And Well" videos at the San Francisco International Animation Festival! Gene Deitch is even gonna be there, and unfortunately I have to miss it.

I'm missing it though for a good reason. Over the next few weeks I have to concentrate on my upcoming (first!) solo art show at the Grassy Knoll Gallery in Portland, OR.

The good Ward Jenkins is currently showing at the gallery so be sure to check him out, and here are some unfinished previews to my show "Culture Jelly"...






The show's not entirely comprised of vikings, I promise.

that's serious

A fan in California sent this in... (0_0)!

the evilest

I slept on posting this latest piece I directed...


guilty parties include...
Animators: Anna Gallaspy, James Richards and Chris Fox
Backgrounds: Mike Gilbert
Big thanks to: WildBrain! and Bryan Younce

seattle show and spoiler alert radio

Before I took off for Seattle I had a call to be a part of a radio show on 88.1FM, WELH, Providence, RI, so how could I pass that up? It's a great show called Spoiler Alert Radio which interviews directors and discusses film and such.

CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVIEW

Buckle up for unbridled ramblings.

Hey so have you ever been to Seattle? When it's sunny outside it sincerely can't be beat. I guess I missed it pretty bad, but didn't even know how much until I got back. Gah! Love that place.

Here's some photographic evidence of the events...

the good Rob May and Rebecca Moline from the Animation Show
photo by Matt Tamaru

@ Flowers in the U-District
artsy photo by Matt Tamaru

from left to right: Anton Bogaty, Matt Tamaru, Rob May,
Rebecca Moline and Tom Deslongchamp
photo by errr... I think Tom

Tom and his wife Jessica Phoenix
photo by Tom... for sure this time

The mighty Troy Parke from Plexipixel
photo by Vicky Tamaru

Long distance shot in my old hood of Northgate.
from left to right: Matt and his wife Vicky Tamaru,
and the Blakefields- Huddle, Esther and boy genius Gene
photo by random passerby guy
with a taste for plenty of negative space

One day I'll post some drawings again.
Until then...