Cave Worms

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Every once in a while at JibJab a few of us get to collaborate on an offbeat little personal project. Cave Worms was one of the recent projects that I made with my good buddy and master puppeteer Mike Chiechi. Our friend Alan Cook filmed and photographed the short and Devin Bell consulted us quite a bit on the fabricating process. It's a rather strange addition to the Jibjab library, but I find it's quirkiness pretty charming. Mike and me describe it as our David Lynch style ecard for JibJab.

Here's the visual development work I made for the project.

I crafted the underground set piece out of Paper Mache and lots and lots of clay and sculpey. I wanted it to feel like an old Peter Gabriel claymation video.

Alan did a nice job lighting this guy as well.

Although that's me holding the puppet for a lighting test, Mike did all the puppeteering. The guy is a puppet wizard!

Here's the miniature cityscape I made. I used X-Mas lights to create the glow of the windows and it really added to the Ed Wood charm of the whole set piece. Again, Alan did a very nice job photographing it.

In all it was a really fun project to work on. Fine work Mike and Alan!

--Justin

Comic Con

These past couple of weeks have been really busy trying to prepare for Comic Con. Here's me being busy...fun, right?

With that said, the Con is finally here tomorrow evening and as always I couldn't be more thrilled! Here's a nifty map Trish made that will help you scour your way through the nerdy depths of the convention hall in search of my table!

See you soon!

--Justin

San Diego Comic Con 2010

Summers in full swing folks, and you know what that means? Yes, it's once again time for the great migration of nerds, geeks and freaks to make their way out to sunny San Diego for the all mighty Comic Con! I'll be there once again at table F8, so please come by and say hello.

Here's the new prints I made especially for the show this year.

And for those who can't make it to the mighty Con, no fears. You can now purchase everything at my new Haunted Cove store on Etsy!

That's all for now. hopefully I'll be seeing a lot of you in San Diego next week!