kevin kaliher's blog

2009-07-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

2007-08-23T19:40:00.000-07:00

...i think i'll make a park

2007-05-10T08:28:00.000-07:00

i woke up and this turd was in my brain.
here. it's for you.

2007-05-05T14:56:00.002-07:00

ball lift
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2007-05-05T14:56:00.001-07:00

5may
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2007-04-26T11:46:00.000-07:00

in the course of a few conversations with my wife about folk tales (on a thread which began a while ago with Vladímir Propp's book) an idea started to take shape, and i revisited this drawing of a world and some related ones of a princess and a frog. the princess immediately got pretty boring but there was something about the frog. so over the past week i've been gradually building this little prototype:

Click on the game screen to control the frog.

2007-04-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a big upgrade of microDJ. It should drop soon, like a raindrop from an April shower. Here's some pictures of it in action.

Above, you're just getting started, you only got 2 crates of records, but you've managed to entice 11 peeps to the floor.

And here, still going at noon the next day, you're rocking the joint at capacity with 64 peeps, you got 8 crates of records to select from and make combos with.

Superthanxx to all the beta testers, especially Mike, Clay and my wife Jung for lots of great comments and suggestions. Some of them became features at once, others I need to think about and will emerge in some form in a future addition of microDJ.

...

In the meantime, this little sketch done on the way back from soccer last week is somehow for you Justin.

2007-03-18T06:32:00.000-07:00

Sneaky O

a sneaking game

Level 3 of 3

IMPORTANT: Click on the game to "focus" on it before playing. Click outside when done.

Flash, 2005
with inspiration from Mike Stern

Level 1 and How To Play

If you make it to the exit, you are a Sneaky O Champion. First 5 to send in or post a winning screenshot will receive a prize by real mail*!!

*prize will take approximately 4-6 years to arrive.

2007-03-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

Yes it's actually a holiday post. Sláinte, y'all!

When I was living in Baltimore a couple years back, I was lucky to be able to hang out with my uncle Don on a few occasions. Usually we'd hit the Brewer's Art on Charles St. for their amazing french fries and whatever seasonal beer they'd just concocted. One time I met him at J Patrick's in Locust Point for what I think was called a Ceili. There were about 6 musicians jamming out the jigs and it was pretty furiously uptempo. I was a smoker at the time and all that reelin' around was a bit rough on me. Don though, despite some accumulated goodness around the midsection, turned out to be pretty spry for an old guy. This is more or less what I saw that night:

Don Kaliher
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heh, it's great to be Irish. Now how's about a kiss, wifey?

2007-03-14T18:17:00.000-07:00

some el tigre rough boards

I enjoyed a memorable stint on el Tigre last summer. Memorable because they gave me the soccer episode during World Cup. As you may know i am a soccer player. I try to get off my ass and play with some other animator types once a week under the ol' power lines.

Although I was overall disappointed with my performance, I enjoyed my time working on this cartoon, especially drawing Grandpa. He's a fun character. Freds Gutierrez and Osmond too were breaking (in) the gramps model real good. So here's some rough boards, now that blogging season* has opened on el Tigre...

"Papi! You could coach the team!"

well, it turns out grandpa's coaching is not so good. still, if only manny would cheat...

yeah, at the end of my stint there i pretty much felt like manny at the end of the episode.

this gag didn't make the final as it is text based.

*more el tigre here, here, here, and of course here .

2007-03-12T19:08:00.000-07:00

girl
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2007-03-11T19:06:00.000-07:00

boy
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2007-03-11T10:09:00.000-07:00

My next door neighbor is a student at a nearby community college. In the evenings and weekends he works at a marijuana dispensary.

Recently he used his student loan money to buy a car - a sharp, white, late model Lexus. Two days later the front end was totally fucked up.

He said some uninsured guy hit him.

2007-03-11T08:33:00.000-07:00

Sneaky O

a sneaking game

Level 2 of 3

IMPORTANT: Click on the game to "focus" on it before playing. Click outside when done.

Flash, 2005
with inspiration from Mike Stern

Level 1 and How To Play

If you make it to the exit you must be a gamer.

2007-03-10T02:59:00.000-08:00

2007-03-09T14:40:00.000-08:00

loquats are in season and plentiful around my neighborhood.

2007-03-09T07:35:00.000-08:00

don't get alzheimers

today's puzzle is from talented youngster Charles Schultz

2007-03-09T07:25:00.000-08:00

mimette revisited

born at old HB while in dev on PPG

2007-03-09T07:22:00.000-08:00

six threes make eighteen

2007-03-04T12:21:00.000-08:00

Sneaky O

a sneaking game

Level 1 of 3

IMPORTANT: First, click on the game to "focus" on it. Click outside when done.
Directions below.

Flash, 2005
with inspiration from Mike Stern

How To Play

MOVE: Arrow keys
SNEAK: Hold down space bar
BLOW: B

You are the blue dude. You can MOVE, SNEAK, and BLOW.
The yellow dudes are guarding the way to the exit.
They have "torches" and can "see" a limited distance in front of them.
If they "see" you, you're momentarily stunned.
If they touch you, you're dead.

So:
Try to BLOW out their torches, which blinds them temporarily.
While they're blind, you can SNEAK past them.

2007-03-01T08:34:00.000-08:00

São Paulo Street Theatre

We were stopped at a busy intersection near Paulista when we saw this motoboy that had been pulled over by the police.

The cops there have been under attack from crazy prison gangs, so I expected them to be pretty hardcore.
The big one started to frisk the motoboy.

The cop seemed satisfied and I figured it was over.
But then he put his hand between the motoboy's legs and gave him a little grip.

I resolved to obey the local laws at all times.

2007-02-25T09:06:00.000-08:00

We got together to play Dungeons and Dragons.

All the cool guys were there.

My character, Wikipoo, is a gnome crone that brews her own acid.
She also knows a few spells.

As we penetrated deeper into the dungeon, things got a little weird.

Even though many of her spells failed that night, Wikipoo gained valuable experiene.
Someday she hopes to travel across the wild seas to attain her dream spell:

2007-01-25T05:58:00.000-08:00

Jan 24
driving on the Marginal Tietê

2007-01-12T14:15:00.000-08:00

São Paulo, January 3rd 2007.
My girlfriend Jung and I married each other in a simple ceremony at the local cartorio. Two of her friends were our padrinhos (witnesses). Afterwards, we went to a mall and had a bite to eat with her friend and I bought a pair of jeans.

2006-12-27T16:36:00.000-08:00

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne today proposed listing polar bears as a “threatened” species.

a kitty bobo show: Cellphones

2006-12-21T15:56:00.001-08:00

someone youtubed the pilot a few days ago. thanks aussiebas.

2006-12-19T18:03:00.000-08:00

i could use some "surge" myself right about now.

2006-12-17T22:35:00.000-08:00

I showed that electrobooklet of Kitty Bobo to some guys at one of those cartoon networks and they said "cool, cool...now let's see some stories".

Well that was a while back now (it takes time to come up with the stories).

This one idea, a riff on a chase cartoon starring Kitty Bobo and Alice Rat, had been in my mind and it started to develop on paper the way it usually does, for me at least, mostly drawings of the characters, just figuring them out, them some words, then drawing out some ideas and specific moments. I ended up wanting to go in a different direction with Kitty Bobo as a whole but I like the way Alice Rat looks in some of these drawings. Ha, there's some real dead ones in the mix too, as always...

(first starting by writing some ideas, then just drawing some Alice, trying to figure her out)

(and then starting to draw characters from possible moments in the story, with varying degrees of succes, like for instance note the nasty super-wooden alice in the upper middle, below.)

So some ideas there, maybe enough to turn into a short, maybe not. Regardless though, for a few pages the characters came to life and interacted a little and that's always good.

2006-12-03T06:13:00.000-08:00

Homeless Talent Show at Lost Souls Cafe, Dec 2.

2006-12-02T08:56:00.000-08:00

2006-12-02T08:53:00.000-08:00

2006-12-02T08:36:00.000-08:00

Echo Park Female

2006-12-02T08:31:00.000-08:00

2006-08-23T23:55:00.000-07:00

I'd like to thank Amid Amidi for the mention on Cartoon Brew.

But I think "decent" is perhaps too generous a word to describe the storytelling in the pilot. When there's an overemphasis on style, the storytelling is bound to suffer a little. "Loose" or "sloppy" might be more accurate.

But the style was pretty dope, huh? Credit for that belongs to BG layout artist Dan Krall, painters Tim Maloney and Anna Chambers, and art director Meaghan Dunn.

2006-08-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kevin Kaliher inks new west coast representation deal.

Non-award-winning independent animator Kevin Kaliher will now be represented on the west coast by this guy.

Please contact Chris Bear at 818-574-7173 with inquiries about working with Kevin Kaliher or if you need a crossing guard.

2006-08-21T13:58:00.000-07:00

girl turns to sleep

2006-08-21T02:59:00.000-07:00

katRunJump

music by the bassbin twins

2006-08-21T02:42:00.000-07:00

pacing

music by jeff mills

2006-08-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

nari's first scratch.

2006-08-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

Kitty Bobo v3.0

After finishing up a gig storyboarding over at Nick on El Tigre I spent the last week thinking about and drawing Kitty Bobo. The result is this 50 page electrobooklet here.

2006-08-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

Since moving 2 weeks ago I will no longer need to put up with scenes such as this.

2006-08-13T09:14:00.000-07:00

The storyboard for "ice sore" is available for view on my website. It may take a few moments to load...

2006-08-12T09:14:00.000-07:00

i think they're listening to earth wind and fire's "september".

2006-08-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

2006-07-13T19:13:00.000-07:00

I drew these while watching Mexico vs Angola at Zubumba in Culver City...

...and Mike Stern drew these while watching some soccer enthusiasts at a park in Burbank

2006-05-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

Lily takes Kitty Bobo for a bike ride.

From "first job".

2006-05-05T22:52:00.000-07:00

organisms

colored blocks live in a space
they move around, search for mates, and reproduce

you can play it here

2006-05-05T22:43:00.000-07:00

some test drawings for a upcoming feature from a new kid on the studio block.

the genre of the film, a sort of gothic horror, is not necessarily my cup of tea, but it was nice to try and stretch a bit.

2006-05-05T22:36:00.000-07:00

this is a poster that i put together for a pitch to disney tv.

unfortunately, they didn't go for it.

but, it was really enjoyable to work on. and thanks to mike moon for giving kitty bobo a little bit of life after cartoon network.

who's next? nickelodeon?

or wait no. youtube!

2006-04-25T16:50:00.000-07:00

microDJ

this is a little DJ toy i made in flash. i've added some micro clubgoers with a bit of AI but they're kind of dumb right now...working on that...and new records for spring 2007.

2006-04-25T16:21:00.000-07:00

today's modern family:

(except the dad, perhaps)