Stephen M. Levinson's Blog

The terrific flash animation studio known as Animax Entertainment is looking for people.. A great guy named Burt told me I should show the head of production my work. Thanks a lot dude! So I showed the head of production Ace & Aqua and I was invited to take an animation test. Hooray! Basically I was given these 2 characters, Slammo and Sloshie. They were in a standing pose arms down with very limited symbols. I was also given an audio clip. I had to act out to the audio clip, have good animation, but more importantly have believable/good acting. So after I roughed out the actions i thought fit the audio best, traditionally, and I had to create a bunch of symbols since they were not given. I finished the test, sent it to the directors, and now I’m their newest animator! ( well they may have hired more people since me ).

Watch Test!

So now I’m going to be starting animation on a flash cartoon called “Slacker Cats” that will air on ABC Family. I’m neither an in-betweener, nor am I a fixer-upper of animation already done. I will be animating some scenes. Animax has been hired to do 2 episodes. I’m working on one of them. It seems like a really cool show from what I’ve seen so far. It’s more of an adult cartoon. Think Futurama? This seems like a great opportunity for me, and tomorrow morning I start! I’ll keep everyone updated on the date the show will premiere and other info about it!..like when my episode will be on so you can look for me in the credits!

More soon!
-Steve