Here’s a little teaser keyframe from a holiday special we’ve been working on. The fan-loved SyFy show, Eureka, is doing another holiday special episode.  It’s animated. We did the climatic finale.  We got to blow a few things up. Good times.

Like Keanu, Fargo knows:

Tune in at 8/7c December 6th for the premiere on SyFy. Here’s a link to a promo clip on the SyFy website!

EDIT:  Now you can watch entire episode on HULU!

Thanks in every way to readers like you that are sharing this mini-comic! The Search Dog Foundation has notified us of some good donations coming in our honor, and we couldn’t be happier. Well we could be happier… if  YOU would donate now to help the Search Dog Foundation. It’s an unsung group that has sent rescue dogs to find people in over 75 deployments- including the World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti disaster, and now in Fukushima, Japan.

The comic has been reprinted by Wired Magazine, New York Times by columnist Andy Revkin, CREATIVE, Ain’t It Cool News, Bleeding Cool, Comic Book Resources, and hopefully a lot more that we’ve probably missed. We’ve released this mini-comic as a creative commons license so we encourage you so share, re-post, or re-print it anywhere you like. For free.

Please share the crap out of this comic it seems to be inspiring people to donate to the SDF but we’ve still got a long way to go… I feel like I’m on a pledge drive for PBS, but dammit people this is important.

Thanks again to everyone that has given their support!

Thanks everyone for your concern on our team overseas. Hopefully everything will turn out OK and we come out the other side with some stories… if nothing else. To keep up to date on the latest developments please find the feed here:

If you don’t understand how to use the feed, click the link up there, and when the video window pops up click the gray “yes” or “ok” button or whatever pop up is there. It just basically just tells you “that you might get kicked off when the internet traffic gets busy.”

and just in case you might of thought you gained a little weight after this earthquake, you did! We all did! The earth spins faster now! Crazy right!?!

Stay safe everyone.

Here is cut 005-01, with colors and shadows.

Here is cut 002-01, with colors and shadows.

BG layout, colors and shadow flats for 008-01. Scratch time and needs lighting effects (blowout from elevator interior, direct light from hanging lamps.

Here is cut 002-02, with colors and shadows.

color and shadow flats for 006-14

Color flats and shadows for 006-13

Color flats and shadow layers for 006-12.

Here is cut 006-05, with colors and shadows.

Here is cut 007-01, with colors and shadows.

Shadow layers for 006-08. Temp FX to be replaced. Flat colors next.

-EDIT- Note that the flicker in the left chest and the trigger guard during the walk cycle have both been fixed since this test export.

Colors and shadows for 012-04. Ready for composition.

Here is 009-01, with all colors and shadows.  Effects still have to be added, and this is scratch timing.

Color flats and shadow layers for the Cleaner kicking in the door and double-double-tappin’. Needs background layer, and lighting effects. The frames here apply to 013-01 as well as 011-03.

Here is cut 006-16, with all shadows.

Colors and shadows for the soldier in 006-10. No FX layers, the gunfire mask has been inverted but should not be mistaken for final FX. Because of the composite camera move this one is extra wide, click the thumbnail to watch in full.

Here is cut 006-14 with shadows.

Color flats and shadows for 004-09. The rough BG needs to be replaced, but otherwise this cut is ready for composition.