FINALLY....

Much overdue pictures from my trip to California, I had my reasons for not posting them, but I don't care anymore. :) Anyone wants their picture(s) removed, feel free to contact me. This was most definitely the best trip and most exciting 5 days of my life. No exaggeration, as you will clearly see. I don't have any pictures from Dreamworks and Sony, which I also visited, as we weren't even allowed to take pictures from the outside of the campus.

Chris Sanders at his Booth

Scott Morse painting up a storm

Pixar's Jeff Pidgeon giving me some pointers

This was random: Matt Groening and I

Obligatory Princess Leia

Amazing Scott Morse Hellboy Painting

J. Scott Campbell doing a commissioned sketch

The Other 3 Caballeros: Pierre Alary (left), Enrico Casarosa (standing)
and Ronnie Del Carmen (front)

Scott Morse with one of his paintings

Life size Ugly Doll

Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and I

Faeries

Pirates

Daily Show's Rob Corddry and I

At the con, I met a bunch of other amazing talents, unfortunately, I couldn't get pictures of them due to the copious amounts of people on the Saturday and Sunday. Everyone was super-nice and was more than willing to talk for a few minutes. Some of the other geniuses I met were (in no particular order):
Chris Sonnenburg, John Nevarez, Jose Lopez, Patrick Morgan, Nash Dunnigan, Michael Knapp, Dice Tsutsumi, George Broderick, Clay Katis, Dave Pimentel, Ovi Nedelcu, Kazu Kibuishi, Kean Soo, Courtney Huddleston, Mark Andrews, Ted Mathot, Bill Presing, Mike Mignola, Brian Wood, Sean Galloway, Dean Yeagle, Scott Tolleson, Gary Ham, Rodolphe Guenoden, Eren Blanquet and the Hard 8 gang, Michel Gagne, Mike Mattesi, Steven Silver, Joe Moshier, and a ton of others.

The El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Blvd. in L.A.

The Disney Studio

The Feature Animation "Hat Building" on Riverside Dr.

Mann's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd.

The Back of the Animation Building.

From L to R: Glen Keane, Myself, Mark Kennedy, Mr. Fun and my dad.

About an hour after this, I was at Dreamworks visiting a friend and checking out the campus where I got to meet an amazing bunch of people including: Jenny Lerew, Jenn Hager, Dave Pimental, and of course, good ol' Jenn Kluska. After checking out dreamworks, I went to Disney Publishing and saw an original desk used by animation legend Floyd Gottfriedson and original model sheets from Fantasia by Freddie Moore of the Centaurettes. (For more on Freddie Moore, check out Jenny's blog, The Blackwing Diaries) And got to meet Ken Shue, the head of Disney Publishing. The day after Dreamworks and Disney, I headed over to Sony Pictures Animation to visit another friend. Where we ran into (completely by chance) another person who was touring the studio - Bill Nighy - the man who played Davy Jones in Pirates of the Carribean 2 this summer.
I saw a lot of stuff from the new movie(s) coming out...and that's all I'm gonna say. :P

-R.