MooBeard: The Cow Pirate

While “MooBeard” is my first commercial film, it’s not quite my first completed film. The first one… was a goofy little thing I made in Mario Paint called “6th Grade Fashion Police”. I don’t know where that is.

Anyway, this is a flash cartoon I made in 2002 in order to teach myself Flash. In an age where stuff like “Foster’s Home” and Andrew Kauervane’s “My God, Robots” are reinventing the medium, this is starting to show its age… but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it anymore.

What prompted me to post it here?
I totally put it on YouTube, that’s what. Enjoy!

(The above drawing was colored brilliantly by Verna Jääskinen)
Here’s the next installment in my series of posts about what you won’t see in the MooBeard short. The next crew member that didn’t make the cut for the short is Quill.
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When a legendary musician, America’s foremost voice actor, and the keyboard player for one of your favorite bands asks one to star in a music video, one generally says “yes”. Andy Paley and Tom Kenny have made a rediculously good Spongebob album called “The Best Day Ever”. They wanted to make a music video (directed by Jillinda Palmer of The Breakups) to promote it, and they asked me to star in it. In a Spongebob costume. In public. Ladies and gentlemen, my proudest moment:

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