Interviewed by The Little Black Book for our work on Disney’s “Disenchanted”
The Little Black Book interviewed some of our team members on our work on Disney's feature "Disenchanted." They include Laura Montero Plata (Production Manager), Justine Desmarais (character animator & character designer), Magdalena Demas (Production Coordinator),...
Animation Magazine Interview on the production of “Disenchanted”
Animation Magazine interviewed Simon Pope and I on the production of Disenchanted. The article is titled How Tonic DNA Sprinkled 2D Animation Magic into Disney’s ‘Disenchanted’ As in the original, Disenchanted crosses the line from live action to animation, requiring...
FIRST LOOK: Looney Tunes Feature The Day the Earth Blew Up
From THE WRAP: This week, Warner Bros. Animation will have a presence at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. And one of the projects that...
One of our latest Looney Tunes Shorts: Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular
From ANIMATION MAGAZINE: Daffy and Porky are pulling a literal graveyard shift in the new sneak peek clip for “Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Skreem...
Disenchanted hits Disney+ on November 24
Disenchanted is scheduled to hit Disney+ on November 24. Not much 2D animation in the current trailer, but a couple shots we worked on.
Looney Tunes “Big League Beast”
One of the great Looney Tunes shorts we worked on at Tonic DNA. This one was a blast. This video just shows a short clip from the short. If you're...
The Bob’s Burgers Movie now on HBO Max and Hulu
The Bob's Burger Movie is an animated film the entire family can enjoy. At Tonic DNA we animated many of the musical sequences, and it was great...
Bringing Space Jam 2 to Life
The Little Black Book interviewed our team and produced an article about our studio's work on Space Jam 2. To go behind the hand-drawn scenes of the...
Space Jam: A New Legacy is out today
Space Jam is released today. My team was occupied on this production for a good part of last year. It was a joy to work with great people and...
Looney Tunes Dynamite Dance
The first short we did at Tonic DNA for the new Looney Tunes for Warner Bros. The shorts are streaming on HBO Max.
Lebron James is part of Toon Squad on Space Jam: A New Legacy
Entertainment Weekly article on Lebron James involvement in Space Jam: A New Legacy. For years LeBron James blocked questions about the most...
Central Park wins Best Animated Series at KidScreen 2021
Loren Bouchard's animated series Central Park has won Best Animated Series and Best in Class for programming for Tweens/Teens at the 2021 Kidscreen...
First look at Season 2 of Central Park
Congratulations to Bento Box Entertainment for the release of Central Park season 2, which will be out Friday, June 25 on Apple TV+! The song...
Prodigal Teaser: Enslaved to this Soil
Teaser trailer for one of the songs from Prodigal the Musical, which is still in production. This song features Jeff Kready (Les Miserables, A...
Announcing Story Driven Arts
I recently launched a new instructional website called Story Driven Arts, which currently features a new podcast and video reviews of animation for...
The Shaffer Creative Podcast has retired
After 29 episodes, The Shaffer Creative Podcast has been retired, and in it's place will be a new podcast called Story Driven Arts. Shaffer Creative...
Educ’ alcool Porcupine
Here's another one of the Educ 'alcool ads called Porcupine, animated by Sam Cabanac and Guillaume Blackburn. https://vimeo.com/246454867
Central Park Season 1
Loren Bouchard's new animated series Central Park has recently released on Apple. For the last year I had the privilege of supervising the animation...
New Looney Tunes Coming to HBO Max
My team had a hand animating some of the new Looney Tunes shorts, coming to HBO Max in May. https://youtu.be/nalw1XRAiMI Here's an image from one of...
The Chickeraffe ad for Netflix’s Green Eggs and Ham
https://youtu.be/pD8EbJ_p6GI Fun little bumper we did at Tonic DNA for Netflix. Animated by the amazing Justine Desmarais. Directed by yours...
Green Eggs and Ham Official Trailer
Green Eggs and Ham premieres November 8 on Netflix. Produced by Warner Bros. https://youtu.be/YaqKPRxxaSk
Sam’s Table: Ad for Green Eggs and Ham
This is a spot I directed for Netflix, both the live and animation at Tonic DNA, produced by Howard Huxham. https://youtu.be/b0t5y2kLCnU
Looney Tunes Reboot Has Begun
Warner Bros has released the first shorts for their reboot of Looney Tunes. I've had the joy of working on some of these shorts for the past year,...