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Nate Theis does eCards for JibJab
June 2, 2010 12:05 am
Way back in March 2009, we told you to keep an eye on animator Nate Theis. One person who took our advice was Evan Spiridellis at JibJab, who contacted the animator after reading Amid’s original post. Evan says:
Above and below are Nate’s first two Birthday ecards for JibJab and they are just as funny and stylish as his past films. I want more! |
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Ahh man, these are brilliant!
why didn’t he eat the cow? he ate everything, but he merely milked the cow and put it back. I’m so confused.
These are great! Nice to see JibJab is willing to venture into new directions with their animation styles. And Theis has nailed it with his simple, powerful gags and character design!
Thanks for sharing more great work from Nate Theis! Now why aren’t there Saturday morning cartoons like this?
excellent. now that’s animation.
These are wonderful!! I’ve never seen little sendable things like this! Great work, Nate, and good move, JibJab!
Those are awesome!
Fantastic! Thank goodness for Nate and Evan. Great stuff.
Great Stuff! Thanks fer sharing!
These are great!
I routinely send JibJab cards, and while I haven’t sent these yet, I’ve seriously thought about it. Great work.
nice enough! :)
Hilarious! Great work, Nate.
Designs that are funny before they even move, appealing movement and brilliant timing. I’m delighted that somebody is paying him to create more work.
Very funny work! Love the “modern” UPA type style.
I’m not really a JibJab fan, but these are really funny and cool. I think the great Grim Natwick did some UPA influenced drawings that kinda looked like this.
They look funny, they move funny… cool!
Nice. Any word on which software was used? Flash?
Thanks for all the great comments! I’m glad people like the cards.
Pedro – I do all the animation in Flash with a Cintiq, making sure to keep every element on a separate layer. Then I put everything together in After Effects and add textures.
funny stuff!!!!! reminds me of fred crippen’s work.
Luks great. hopefully no investor/ producer/ etc/etc.
will change your wonderful ideas and work but that’s
like asking can we live in a perfect world please
Those animations were awesome! It has that retro feel to it.
That’s really cool how you animated something in Flash & then took it into after effects & made it look like it’s an old cartoon that was made back in the 60’s or 70’s.
Very well done Mr. Theis!
WOW!!! Really great cartoons! I was watching the Jimmy John’s spots on Nate’s site. If anyone can revive Roger Ramjet it’s NATE!!!
those are great! I really loved the Jimmy John’s commercials on your site. They had great gags/sfx/cutting. Really clever fun work!!!
These are really great from design to animation, timing & color…
Great style & posing too, nice work all around..!
Those guys at JibJab are great! They had some really cool Horoscope stuff when they first started!!