Sorry things have a little quiet around here lately. Got stranded in San Diego after Comic Con due to bad weather for an extra day, then moved to a new apartment with my family two days later. Meanwhile the pace on Ice Age 3 is picking up even more steam as we head into creative crunch time on the picture. To sum up, the last couple of weeks have been CRAZY.

Comic Con was a total blast. OOP 2 did really well, hung out with a bunch of my west coast pals as well as the bulk of the OOP 2 crew who came out to the Con. Very exciting. All in all, I couldn’t have asked for a better time. Just a better traveling experience.

Then a week ago, the wonderful Sketchtravel documentary crew came from Paris to New York to interview some of us east coast contributors. I can’t wait to see just how large of a dweeb I made of myself. Ah, something to look forward to…

The Totoro Forest Project Auction is coming up in a few weeks. I just bought my plane ticket to San Fransisco and couldn’t be more excited. I really hope this raises some serious money, but if ticket sales to the auction are any indicator (they sold out in two and a half days!), I think it’ll do pretty well. It’s insane how much momentum is gathering behind this project. If you haven’t discovered the site yet, please go check it out now at http://www.totoroforestproject.org. Dice just launched a new blog for it as well.

Do yourself a favor and please check it out. The group of contributing artists is nothing short of staggering. If you can’t afford to bid on any of the art but want to help the cause, there’s information regarding donations on the site.

Hope to back soon with some new artwork! In the meantime, my contribution to the Totoro Project is the giant owl on the hillside below.