Update on Me... and I saw ghost rider

Well, my "run of show" time at Pixar comes to an end at the end of March, as I finish up on Ratatouille. I got a chance to work on a really cool disneyland submarine ride, and to work on a truly great film during my time here. And just yesterday, I accepted an offer to go to PDI Dreamworks at the beginning of May to work on Madagascar 2. I was a huge fan of the first one, and a really big fan of the style of animation. I've always prefered a more cartoony approach to animation. So this should be lots of fun for me. If anyone has any suggestions about places to live down near Redwood City, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, I saw Ghost Rider. Its fun. Nicholas Cage is great in it. The cheesiness lies mostly in some of the portrayal of the villains. But overall I really enjoyed the ride. If you liked Fantastic 4, you'll like Ghost Rider. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person that liked Fantastic 4 though. So maybe it will be hard to find like minds here.

New Animation

I did this quick little animation over the weekend.

Enjoy.

http://www.alexfleisig.com/animation/Big_Head_2.avi

Bridge to Tera...something or other

Go see this movie. Its really really really good.

If I tell you anything about it, it will ruin it.

Don't watch any trailers.

Just go see it.

Tomorrow I'm going to go see Ghost Rider.

I don't think it will be as good.

That is all.

THE CAT RETURNS

this is my new favorite miyasaki movie... I just watched it the other day... if you really hate cats though, you may not like this movie... there's alot of cats in it...
go buy it today!!!

SHAZAM

Here's my drawings for drawer geeks.

They're late.

Due to procrastination.

Superbowl Party

Our buddy Stephen had a superbowl party at his place this weekend.
Here's some pictures of us watching the bears lose.

Notice no one here looks very happy.

If you could see patrick's face though you'd see that he is happy...

although extremely confused.

here's scott explaining the meaning of life again

after the game we had ourselves an intense battle of Taboo...

I am REALLY REALLY good at this game...

you can tell from the look of respect on my teammates' faces.

this was close to the part where I geuss yet another CORRECT answer...you can practically see the intelligence pouring off me

as I said, the competition was intense... maybe a little too intense

CAVEMEN DRAWINGS

Here's some cavemen drawings I did for drawer geeks. Hopefully they don't suck too much.

VIDEO GAME PARTY FRIDAY

On friday night we had a good old fasioned video game beer and pizza night at my place. Lots of old DNA faces showed up, as well as some ILM and Pixar folks.

despite not receiving an invitation... mexican wrestler patrick showed up ready to battle it out for the guitar hero 2 championship

here's mexican wrestler patrick facing off against his arch nemisis... california sunshine nick

here's some of the other contestants in the guitar hero 2 championship... ben "the madman" sanders... and bert "hiro" chung, who can bend space and time with his mind... giving him an unfair advantage in the competition

here mexican wrestler patrick is flexing in preperation for his next guitar battle... to be continued?

GAME OF THE YEAR

The Game of the Year Awards are done, and there were a bunch of great nominees. Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas, Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Zelda, Resistance. Alot of great games. I beat gears of war last night. I don't finish many games so that says alot. If you want to see who won, click the link below.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=16209&type=mov&pl=game

Updated mY weBsite

I updated my website with some various stuffs.

www.alexfleisig.com

check it out if you dare
and let me know if anything doesn't work right

christmas in new york with my crazy parents

I'm spending christmas in new york with my crazy dad and less crazy step mom. Here's some pictures of us terrorizing the manhattan streets...

this is the giant christmas tree at rockefeller center behind us... don't try to climb to the top, or the cops will break your legs

me and my crazy dad

that's the st patrick cathedral ceiling behind my face... the cathedral looked so nice with all the christmas decorations, which uh... you can't see in this photo... also, i have no idea who that guy with the glasses is

more cathedral without my face...they were doing a christmas service in latin... i don't speak latin so that made it particularly hard to follow along

my dad, listening to jazz on an ipod jukebox that he is very proud of owning

UGLY SWEATER PARTY

My friend's nick and kevin had a big pixar sweater party at their place. It was a good time, even though my awesome grandma sweater didn't get nominated for best ugly sweater. Its good to have goals for the future though.

SAM n MAX

Sam n Max is back!!! They have a new game. Well not the whole game yet. They're releasing the game in 6 episode increments. The first episode is available now for 9 dollars, and its great fun. Its just like the old game that 5 people know and love. If you like point and click comedy adventure games, then this is a no brainer.
Click on the link and get it before its too late.
http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax

Neverending Story Day

That little kid on the right looks just like me when I was a kid.
I still love this movie. Gmorg or whatever his name was... he was awesome.
Here's a neverending story link to brighten your day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k&mode=related&search=

and a special added bonus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSPE_S3dQoU

new animation

In my spare time, I did another short animation just for fun. Here it is if anybody wants to see. Again, its nothing amazing. Just playing around.
http://www.alexfleisig.com/animation/big_head_1.mov

halloween at pixar

For Halloween, I finally took my rightful place as the bestest superhero ever, mr cyclops, leader of the xmen. Here is cyclops angry about his animation not looking so hot.

Here is cyclops thinking it might not be a good idea to blast a hole through the expensive 30 inch monitor. casual cyclops

this is the way cyclops would stand if he was going to blast a hole through wolverine


some people from the subs project dressed as prisoners... i think this was some sort of metaphor for something... don't ask about patrick... that made us all a little scared

pictures from the disney trip

pixar took us to disneyland so we could see the ride we're working on. and then we got to run around and have fun at the park for two days. I tried my best to ride everything, but alas, it was impossible. Here's some pictures of our adventures. Oh, and starting next friday I'm being moved to Ratatoille, to work on the feature. Yay.

Death Drawings for drawergeeks.com

here's some new drawings for drawer geeks. This weeks topic was Death. Click on the images to see a larger version.

I did some Harry Potter drawings for drawergeeks.com

Sarah picked the topic this week. I'll have to thank her with cookies or puppies or something.

this past weekend we visited our friends mark behm and rani namaani who work at PDI Dreamworks in San Mateo... RED ROBIN pictures... YUMMY

We had a little DNA reunion down in Redwood City. Me, scott, rani, mark behm, patrick, amila, young jae, pj, and bert, all met down there. We had lunch at RED ROBIN, one of my favorite places ever. There isn't one near where I live, so it was especially nice to enjoy some red robin boca burger yumminess with my friends. We also ate at a great italian place for dinner, that young jae used to go to as a baby child. thanks for the pictures young jae. Oh, and we went go carting, but I sucked at it. I sucked bad. But PJ and Patrick were pros... they almost beat the daily record. We got to see some of PDI Dreamworks as well. Which is a very pretty studio. There's a really cool salt mine right next to it, and a nice view of the bay.