SEAN BUCKELEW

Animator in Los Angeles, CA.

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I had the opportunity to make an ident for the new MTV International rebrand. The prompt was “FEAR”, and I made a strange thing about a shocking birth. Hope you like it! 😷  👑 A giant shoutout as usual Skillbard who did an amazing job on the music and sound design.

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Tumblr has flagged this post - not sure if it’s because of the natural birthing process depicted, or the unnatural anime baby abomination (with visible nipples) - either way, feel free to follow me on Twitter or Instagram, where I mainly post.

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I wrote an article about a film I probably won’t finish, and the difficulties of making certain kinds of work - check it out here:

https://medium.com/@SeanBuckelew/animation-post-mortem-making-films-about-the-real-world-in-slow-motion-b6a9a17b15c5

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New episode recording soon!  This time we will be talking about 2017! An end of year look back sort of thing. 

Anyway, if you have any questions you can send an ask to this tumblr or send an email to [email protected]

[sean-buckelew]

I had the opportunity to make an ident for the new MTV International rebrand. The prompt was "FEAR", and I made a strange thing about a shocking birth. Hope you like it! 😷  👑 A giant shoutout as usual Skillbard who did an amazing job on the music and sound design.

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Help Me Help You, the debut film from the newly formed animation collective CG RIBS, is now online!

[moviebuddiespodcast]

Hey everyone, we have a new Movie Buddies episode in the works! This time we will be joined by special guest Jennifer Zheng to discuss The Man in the Iron Mask!

If you have any questions you can send an ask to this tumblr or send an email to [email protected]

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We’re recording a new Movie Buddies episode on Tuesday!  Movie Buddies is a podcast Charles Huettner and I do together where we start talking about a movie and then usually talk about stuff related to animation. Our guest this week is Jennifer Zheng, an amazing animator who is dropping her new film TOUGH on Sunday!

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A few more work-in-progress gifs from LOVESTREAMS.  More process stuff can be found on the “making of” blog post here.

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I wrote an in-depth behind the scenes look at the making of LOVESTREAMS that explores every aspect of producing an independent animated short film, including a detailed tutorial for all of the animation techniques and downloadable project files!

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An ode to a lost age of Internet love, my new film LOVESTREAMS is live online now - http://vimeo.com/seanbuckelew/lovestreams

Thanks for watching 😊

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Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for the solo edition of Lovestreams dropping online alongside a bunch of behind-the-scenes goodies (including some super in-depth production tutorial material).

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My film is online

#FREEDOM https://vimeo.com/190769521 (à Calais)

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Loup’s beautiful film Freedom is now online. Check it out!

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Hey do you have any favorite novels or books/ ones you would recommend. Trying to find something new to read and I want to ask an animator/filmmaker out of curiosity (preferably not ones relating to animation or film because those books are usually shit) thanks!

Thanks for the question! Here are a couple books that I've read recently that are maybe a good blend of fun to read/inspirational for my filmmaking (which is kind of specific and sci-fi/techno related and might not be relevant to anyone else's interests).

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Spam by Finn Burton

The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell (this one is related to film, but not in a typical, instructional way (kind of the opposite really, but in a good way)).

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

That's a start, send me another ask if you like these and I can recommend more!

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Two GIFs from my contribution to the Toonami 20th Anniversary Exquisite Corpse project.  All done with Flash and After Effects.

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Simon Wilches-Castro assembled a massive team of animators to make a giant exquisite corpse celebrating the 20th anniversary of Toonami.  I watched Dragon Ball Z and Gundam Wing on Toonami when I was a kid, so getting to animate Tom in any sort of official capacity was pretty neat!  I’ll post some gifs from my sequence later!

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Just put up a new reel for work that I plan to make next year.  Hope you enjoy it!

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Lovestreams rough > final 

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I love tumblr and will continue to post here, but I’ve been posting a lot more casual drawing and animation stuff over on my new instagram account.

So feel free to pop over there for and don’t forget to smash that “follow” button!