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Joseph Holt
April 13, 2009 7:18 pm


Background by Joseph Holt

Layout artist and background painter Joseph Holt has started a new blog featuring loads of his production artwork from from the late-’90s through today. There is work from Mission Hill, The Oblongs, Time Squad, and My Life as a Teenage Robot, among other productions. I particularly like the work he did on Meddlen Meadows (posted above), which was a short made within the Cartoonstitute Shorts Program at Cartoon Network. Holt says on the blog that he’s also been creating visual development for Symbiotic Titan, a series being produced by The Orphanage Animation Studios for Cartoon Network.

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vikram says:
04/13/09  9:09pm

nice blog!i liked it !!i myself is also a painter but its my hobby!!

 
Chuck R. says:
04/13/09  9:13pm

Wonderful stuff!

 
matt says:
04/13/09  9:32pm

Symbiotic Titan – is that the new Genndy Tartakovski show?

 
Craig Clark says:
04/13/09  10:38pm

Great! Top notch as always from Joseph!

 
roque says:
04/14/09  12:08am
 
Mike Rauch says:
04/14/09  5:54am

A breath of fresh air from the post below. And a perfect example of work that no computer will ever be able to replace. Thanks for sharing this!

 
Eric Wight says:
04/14/09  6:32am

Joe and I worked on Time Squad together, and it was always a thrill to see his interpretations of different periods of history. I love the way he varies line and tone to render his backgrounds, rather than just a dead contour.

 
Trevor says:
04/14/09  7:38am

I thought I read a couple months ago that The Orphanage was shutting down.

 
Chris Battle says:
04/14/09  10:55am

Trevor- The Orphanage FX house in SF is the one that shut down; Genndy’s LA-based Orphanage Animation is still in business.

 
Hannah says:
08/9/09  6:27pm

Symbiotic Titan is by Genndy Tartakovsky right? I love his work.

 
HansonThe Dwarf aka Steve Loizos says:
02/2/12  8:32pm

If you are reading this Joseph, you once offered to show me how to do what you do. At the time, that was a very generous offer. Now I realize that was one of the biggest mistakes of my life not to study under you. BUT I WILL NOW!

I will trade you for music lessons!

JOSEPH, YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE MASTER! GORGEOUS WORK! YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR OWN CULT

 
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