Nothing too crazy, was only there for a few months between paid gigs and it’s my only animation credit ever. Augenblick Studios is a surprisingly small operation, Aaron himself was in the room most days reviewing scripts and boards. You could tell that he and the senior staff were burned out from Superjail and were looking for a more chill production vibe on the start of UA. We were in a big industrial building on the DUMBO (Brooklyn) waterfront but the studio itself was a smallish carpeted room where they kept the lights dim, but blinds open so you could watch the snow fall in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. Every animator got a big shelved wooden desk to themselves where they could adjust their own lighting, put on whatever music they wanted in their headphones, and just draw for hours. It was an incredibly stress-free vibe but I learned that I’d go stir crazy if I did it as a career, after 4 hours in front of the Cintiq I was usually ready to jump out of my skin. Oh, I remember that when Obama won the presidency Aaron called off work for the rest of the day and took the whole studio out for lunch. Nice dude, ran into him a few years later at a Bill Plimpton screening and he remembered me, also wrote me a recommendation for a later job.

Almost all of my work was on the pilot. In the opening scene where Mark is left tied to the bed and Randall breaks down his door you’re seeing like a week’s worth of my brush strokes. The shot of Randall’s hand coming through the door of course had key frames but they gave me lots of leeway so a bunch of the flesh and veins and chunks are infinitesunrise originals :P