New blog!

As you can tell from my previous post, this blog has been inactive for years.  Here is a redirect to my new blog. 

http://helder-mendonca.tumblr.com/

Ren and Stimpy.

Here is a clip from the Ren and Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" entitled "Ren Seeks Help" that I worked on back in 2003. I was the Layout supervisor on that show. The first three sequences (the frog at Ren's window- Ren gets home from school- parents in living-room) I storyboarded and layed out. Of course I can not take credit for all the work. John Kricfalusi guided me through the Storyboarding process and added alot of drawings, and there is some Warren Leonhardt majic in there aswell. The last part of the clip with the parents at the window was layed out by John and another talented animator by the name of Derek Bond. IT was an overwhelming experience to work on this sequence, as it was the first Ren and Stimpy show I worked on. I was trying to learn the style and please the boss. I'm happy with the way it turned out though. Hope you like it.

Wayside

Here are a couple of clips that I found on Youtube from "Wayside" that I storyboarded. It was a very fun show to work on. It was directed by Riccardo Durante, and Jaime Mason was assistant director. Two of the funniest guys that I have ever worked with.
Check em out.. Hope you enjoy.





Here is a shot taken at my last storyboard pitch with Riccardo (right) and Jaime (left).

More Sketches.

Hey friends. Here are some fun sketches that I did three nights ago after being completely inspired by this fine drawing by Milt Kahn. I love this drawing.. in particular, his great use of proportion.





































more to come soon...
peace.

It's All Around You

Sorry it has been so long since my last post, anyway here are some images from a short film that I worked on entitled "It's All Around You" that was recently released as a featurette on the Final Destination 3 dvd.


The film was written and produced by the very talented Julie Ng , and my good friend Nick Cross and I animated and directed the film. For those of you who do not know of Nick Cross , click on the link. I'm sure you will be happy that you did. He is all inspiring ... an animation machine! We lucked out and had the talented and creative, musical mastermind of Michael John Dubue on the project. He did the music and sound design and provided additional voices. The Film was impeccably narrated by Roderick Matte.
Enjoy.

If you want to see the film in all it's glory, go to your nearest video store and rent or buy the Final Destination 3 dvd from New Line Home entertainment.

More Sketches

Hello. Thanks to everybody who left comments on the last post, and sorry it took me so long to post again (busy with work). Hopefully , my next post won't take as long. So much to do and so little time. Anyway hope you enjoy these.

Starter.

Hi to all. This is a quick scketch that I pulled out of my sketchbook just to get this site up and running. I will post some more shtuff up soon.
Peace.
Helder.