Artists and Writers. Just a reminder that we’re fast approaching the deadline for our Bernie Wrightson #Artbook collaboration between @monsterforgeproductions and @printedinblood! A tribute to the #legend that was BERNIE WRIGHTSON.
We’re making toys! Now that we’ve successfully set up movies and TV this past year, we’re expanding our battle plan to do something I’ve done for every major toy company, but now doing it for ourselves!
Toy Designer James Groman’s newest B.C. Blasters Will Hit in 2022 as a Monster Forge x Toy Art Gallery collaboration! The Jurassic war machines, the B.C. Blasters, return! Hours before the DesignerCon 2021 show floor opened, superstar designer toy artist James Groman revealed via Instagram the all new B.C. Blasters for his upcoming designer toy collaboration with Monster Forge Productions and Toy Art Gallery. Groman is best known for his outlandish designs as seen in many of his works including the highly popular Madballs toy series. Groman now brings his signature art style to the Monster Forge universe and offers his monstrous spin on his long running B.C. Blasters toy line with Toy Art Gallery, the Monster Forge Edition! The figures are designed and sculpted by the artist.
“When Monster Forge asked me to design and sculpt new characters for the B.C. Blasters in support of the upcoming animated series they are developing with screenwriter Greg Hahn and me, I was amped,” said Groman. “Growing up, I was usually drawn to characters like Swamp Thing, Monster of Frankenstein, Man-Thing and Werewolf by Night and Earth’s first monsters, the dinosaur. Working with Steve Niles and Shannon Eric Denton of Monster Forge on these figures has been so creatively invigorating! It helps that the folks at Toy Art Gallery have been a joy to work with on these for years and this new energy brought to the line has been tremendous. It was interesting to see just how far we could take the new designs and push the paint for the originals to give it that classic animated series vibe. I can only hope this collection leads to even more collaborations with Monster Forge and Toy Art Gallery. I know I have several more collaborations with Monster Forge we’ll be announcing soon!”
Characters: Rocket Rex, Tanklasaurus, Pteranajet, Triceratrooper, Strike-Asaur, Carriersaurus, Jurassic Shark, Dissectrodon, Velocityraptor and Transpitter! Swing by Toy Art Gallery booth (#529) at DesignerCon to hear more about them!
Some The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839 Member Monday fun, talking my #animation career & the growth of the business since I started doing this (multiple decades ago).
So EXCITED to share the The Simpsons couch gag I storyboard directed under awesome Supervising Director Harvatine John IV is out this Sunday! Working with so many great people at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios & FOX was a dream come true! Had a blast designing everything too.
Very honored to have been a part of this team. But as cool as our show winning a @PeabodyAwards is, it should be noted there would be no @AppleTV show without the incredible series of @Scholastic books from long time comic book creator Jon J Muth! (of which I am a HUGE fan). Go Jon! Thanks for letting us all be a part of your magical world! #stillwater #PeabodyAward #animation
The Apple TV+ Stillwater series I worked on last year was nominated for Best Pre-School series at the Annies. That’s fun. Congrats to all the nominees and all the exceptional creatives who worked on these shows. Shout out to amigo & fellow director Roy Burdine.
STILLWATER: An animated series based on the Scholastic book series “Zen Shorts” by Jon J. Muth.
So excited to be bringing my friend Kevin Conran’s art and production design to everyone who was a fan of this groundbreaking movie along with all of you seeing this for the first time. Excited to partner with the fine folks at Dynamite Entertainment. We had some delays because of the pandemic with getting this book out but hopefully that will just make the experience of getting in our hands all the sweeter. Looking forward to getting back into the world of Sky Captain with all of y’all soon!
The Kubert School’s Winter 2021 Online Studies Program is now open for registration! https://www.kubertschool.edu/art…/online-studies.html Login and join the fun! Classes run from the week of February 8th through March 20th.
I’ll be teaching Writing for TV/Animation. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
For additional information on the Kubert School and how to sign up for online studies courses, or to register for our upcoming Spring Open House on Saturday, April 17th, please visit www.kubertschool.edu or email info@kubertschool.edu.
’30 Days of Night’ Creator Steve Niles, Artist Shannon Eric Denton Launch Monster Forge Productions (Exclusive)
It was a challenging year for everyone but we’re looking forward to 2021 and sharing all the upcoming Monster Forge Productions announcements. Excited to be working with so many stellar talents and great human beings…monsters to be added at a later date (SOON). Happy Holidays, everybody.
Great afternoon talking story with my peers and fellow Directors in the last Story Development class at Brainstorm School (online). Honored to have been invited to join this group. Peter Ramsey (Sony Feature Animation), Stephanie Stine (DreamWorks Feature Animation), Alex Woo (Kuku Studios), Annie Liu (Netflix), Lissa Treiman (Disney Feature Animation), Elaine Bogan (DreamWorks Feature Animation), Tim Heitz (DreamWorks Feature Animation), Miguel Jiron (Sony Feature Animation), Trey Buongiorno (Disney TV), Maggie Kang (Sony Feature Animation), McKenna Harris (Pixar), Andy Cung (Netflix), Michael Fong (Pixar), Donna Lee (Disney Feature Animation)!