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h u g o

i LOVE november

About Me



i draw and animate. amid all the freelance, trying to find more time to paint.

sometimes i dance like this:

My Interests

nerd stuff

I'd like to meet:



Galactus the Devourer of Worlds

Music:

good music because i have a classically trained ear

check out my friend's bands: dj ejg , alive is dead , zero taiko , stephanie erdel , and bonobos convergence .

Movies:

good movies (film snob) and (obviously) animation

Television:

about 4 in the house

Books:



shout outs to Matt Whitlock's "Punk 'n Patch" books and Randy Christopher's "Kleeman and Mike"

Heroes:

this guy:

My Blog

new painting 3/5/08 (The Life Aquatic)

it's a Steve Zissou portrait commission I did as an art exchange with co-worker and photographer Lesley Silvia (i believe as a gift for her husband Jared). it's 9"x12" oil on paper:for this, i got a r...
Posted by h u g o on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:13:00 PST

the last of the 9 Old Men

Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's 9 Old Men, passed away today. he seemed to me, from the documentary "Frank and Ollie", very sentimental about his time at the studio: specially how he saved and ch...
Posted by h u g o on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:05:00 PST

Florida Film Festival 08

Not much i wanted to see this year although i did catch the "Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist" documentary (a little slow pacing-wise but good overall, a must for comic artists) and the US...
Posted by h u g o on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:45:00 PST

spreading the love for "Family Spread"

my MTV Animation ex-coworker and friend Al Nigel Mayo started a webcomic called "Family Spread" recently. check it out if you have some free time by clicking on the name or image below:...
Posted by h u g o on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

New York trip highlights (w/pics)

So the now-defunct-MTV Animation (RIP- yes, another studio closed by me: Animation's Grim Reaper. ok, not true but ask me about it sometime) decided it was time for a reunion since they hadn't done on...
Posted by h u g o on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:33:00 PST

Happy Holidays!

¡Feliz Navidad to all who celebrate!
Posted by h u g o on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:03:00 PST

new painting 11/11/07

"Audrey T"12"x12"oil on canvasmade for the "Draw for a Cure" silent auction at Full Sail's World Diabetes Day awareness eventdetail:...
Posted by h u g o on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:01:00 PST

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

last weekend i carved a fake pumpkin (my 1st pumpkin ever) of my friend Matt Whitlock's character "Punk" from his "Punk n' Patch" book series. click on the name if you wanna learn more about the books...
Posted by h u g o on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:12:00 PST

Kleeman and Mike for Africa 2007 / "Jaimes Taco Shop"

from Randy Christopher:"Hi everyone. It's been a month of Sundays... here's some updates:KLEEMAN AND MIKE FOR AFRICA 2007! The goal is $5000 this year.Everyone who donates will get a DVD of the new ca...
Posted by h u g o on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:01:00 PST

back from Dragon*Con

my 1st time there; a disappointment inside the con, a lovely time outside of it. KLEEMAN and MIKE did well on top of the screening circumstances.thanks to Tim, Randy, Bethany, Frank, and Sandra for sa...
Posted by h u g o on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:42:00 PST