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Long Time No See

Mike Milo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:29:02 +0000

Yeah it’s been a while since I added a real post of any substance other than jokes and mostly it’s because I’ve been really busy trying to stay afloat with full time freelance instead of the typical 9-5 animation job since I finished at Cartoon Network back in May. I’ve had a number of small jobs but the coolest was for a sweet shop in Greece. Unfortunately I’m not allowed to show the art for it until I get approval. Also I have done a fair amount of design work for Fox21 which is a subdivision of Fox catering to the college set.

Below is some work from that show…

Rough designs ideas:

Final Designs

Flavio!

Mike Milo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:39:06 +0000

Three years ago I created a seven minute animated film called “Flavio” for Nickelodeon/Frederator Films, about an over-emotional goat who works as a dishwasher in a pizzeria and longs to be a famous inventor like his hero Leonardo DaVinci.

I have not been able to post it on my site because it had to air on telivision first to be eligible for Emmys and Annies and all that stuff that only animators care about. Anyway, I can finally show it. Please check it out and as always I love to here your thoughts!
You can see a production blog about the making of Flavio at Frederator.com and learn more about Flavio here.

Genie Hunters

Mike Milo — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:01:20 +0000

Some art for an upcoming pitch. Click the icons to see the full pic.

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Sally’s Lighthouse

Mike Milo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:38:36 +0000

A few pieces of art for an upcoming pitch

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Flavio Premiere

Mike Milo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:12:54 +0000

Don’t forget Flavio will be premiering soon! Set your Tivos and DVRs!

A bit about Flavio:
Flavio is a little 7 minute film I did for Nickelodeon as part of their show Random Cartoons. It’s about a goat aptly named Flavio who works as a dishwasher in a pizzeria and longs to be a famous inventor like his hero Leonardo DaVinci. It will premiere on Jan 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the east, 10:30 a.m. in the west.
I hope you all can see it! Remember it’s only 7 minutes long and it’s the first cartoon of three so if you tune in late you will miss it.
You can see the Production blog I did while making the film here.

Flavio airdate!

Mike Milo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:36:16 +0000

So, after 4 looooong years Flavio will finally be coming to a television near you Jan 17 at 10:30 Pacific time and 1:30 Eastern time!

It’s been so long i can’t wait to see what the reaction is!

Autodesk’s-The Area

Mike Milo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:37:38 +0000

Woohoo! Some of my art made it into the Area’s celebration of 3December! Very cool! 3December is a big event that Autodesk sponsors all over the world and they made a lil’ banner and my faerie painting made it into the collage! Check her out in all her beauty! She’s the lil’ green face at the top right! (click the pic to see it bigger)

I know it sounds silly but I think it’s cool! I know… I’m a geek.

So what!

When Nature Calls Graphic Novel

Mike Milo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:37:56 +0000

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I have a friend who has contacts within the big publishing industries who seems to think that I might be able to sell WNC as a graphic novel so I’ve been trying to get a ‘dummy; book together as I have been told they’re not very visual so they need to see what it would look like. Obviously if they bought it I’d redraw all the art but this should more than give them a clear vision as to what it would be like. There’s 23 pages done in total and I’m not quite sure just how many there will be in the end but it seems to have to be somewhere around 125 or so which means I need to add a whole lot of story… Anyway, here’s the first batch. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Final ‘When Nature Calls’ post

Mike Milo — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:43:32 +0000

Well I pitched my cartoon to CN today and they passed on it stating that it skewed too young.
Oh well… I’m still proud of how it came out. If you’d like to see it check out the storyboard.

I like this idea too much to let it go though and I really think I would like to make a graphic novel with it. We’ll see…

When Nature Calls storyboard

Mike Milo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:44:16 +0000

Mr Flint explaining to Woodrow how to raise the sun.

Well, I’ve managed to finish my pitch storyboard for CN’s shorts program and I’m pretty happy with the result. Of course I haven’t shown it to many people for the simple reason that I have no one to show except my family. So, because I need to practice pitching and because I value their opinion, I pitched to my brother, wife and kids. My wife said she really liked the story and that it was funny, which is good and I believe her because she does not pull punches. My kids also liked it and said they thought it was funny. I think they did not get all the jokes but that’s cool as I have heard that CN is trying to skew older with these shorts. My best review however came from my brother who said he loved it. Even better, he said actually liked it better than Flavio which I take as a compliment simply because I really liked how Flavio came out. He laughed at all the right places and thought the whole thing was good.

Here’s a few more panels from the film…

Woodrow realizes he’s destroyed the sun.

Mr Flint. chastises Woodrow.

The Ironwoods ‘curling’ cows.

Woodrow gets blown up.

Woodrow not behaving.

Woodrow flipping out because he can’t be on the Force of Nature

Woodrow feeling a little ‘beat’