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1. The Dog and the Butcher by Jonathan Holt

by Jonathan Holt

2 years ago

Produced at Ringling College of Art and Design for my senior thesis. Opinions always welcomed! Hope you enjoy!

Blog: JonathanHolt.blogspot.com
Porfoltio: JonathanTibbittsHolt.blogspot.com
Website: ringling.edu/~jholt1

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Jennifer Newman 2 years ago

Yey, its awesome!!! Great work!
Bryan Tenorio 2 years ago

I love this! The art style is great, and the story is great too! I really feel for the dog!
Gianna Ruggiero 2 years ago

This is so good! What an awesome style
kfaczoo 2 years ago

Sausyyyyy ;-) Great!
Juan Andrés Castañeda 2 years ago

Hells yeah.
lumgik 2 years ago

Cute and sweet illustration like animation.
Nice work=)
Alton Carroll 2 years ago

Wondergul bit of work... Especially love the cell shading render...
Gaschka 2 years ago

Wow, the look is superb. the animation coulb a little bit snappier though! but overall: good job!
Dennis 2 years ago

Excellent work! I like it very much
Matt Schwarz 2 years ago

This was really awesome! Reminded me of a Pixar short, very cute.
Karen Abad 2 years ago

Great work Jonathan!
gabe maestas 2 years ago

very fun! Nicely done
Erkme73 2 years ago

You won't belive it, but my rescued mutt, Cookie, fell in love with it. She watched every interaction like it was her story. The movie itself was heartwarming in its own right, but seeing her get such a thrill following the story, that was just priceless!
Jonathan Holt 2 years ago

:-D This really made my day, lol. I made it based on my dog, Mocha. and tried to get as much of her personality into the animation.
Tony Clavelli 2 years ago

agree that it's got the pixar feel (perhaps the music did that?)--which is a certainly fun. Great movement with your characters, too!
Florence~S 2 years ago

wow! cool.. i love it!
Jenny Nguyen 2 years ago

As a 17-year-old who just logged into her Vimeo to click on a cartoon,

this was really good :) Best of luck with your art stuff. It was cutestuff.
MrPiksi Saiyan Macao 2 years ago

sweet!
d.i.m llc 2 years ago

Yeah!!!!
zhushuicaoerju 2 years ago

sweat and fun!
Tomasz Trela 2 years ago

Very funy video !

:D
Max Brezzi 2 years ago

cooooollll :)
Webtree Limited 2 years ago

Brilliant!
kaspars 2 years ago

when title is butcher+some sort of animal - victims are expected...

but, great story anyway :)
onemore 2 years ago

very very nice!!!
Arancia Idraulica 2 years ago

Bravo!
Adriana de Barros 2 years ago

A joy to watch!

It will be featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
duncankay 2 years ago

amazing
Noostar Showtheworld 2 years ago

Loved it.
howdytom 2 years ago

awesome work. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
Green Nasty Rabbit. 2 years ago

Great good stuff ^^
Julio Neto 2 years ago

Amazing! ^-^
Christian Chaos 2 years ago

very veery fynny i like this video.Amazing:PP
hnawelhik 2 years ago

j'aime bien le petit chien
tritochke 2 years ago

good story :)
Msasa S.E.G 2 years ago

About time media started to represent the dog nation. Short and effective work Jonathan.
WakeUp!!! SkateMag 2 years ago

excellent work!!! keep it going:D
Jason Burger Visual 2 years ago

WOW! Awesome short! I think this is much better than some of the animated movies I've seen recently.
Atrian Wagner 2 years ago

Aww! This is adorable! I love the character design.
Pieter Tierens 2 years ago

Really nice
I especially like the design and style of it, and the music just perfectly fits in the whole.
btw. what did you use to create this?
Jonathan Holt 2 years ago

Hey, it's made primarily with Maya and Photoshop. The backgrounds are all modeled in Maya and then on a per shot basis I added shading and line drawings. All the textures were painted in Photoshop. Then almost everything is comped in After Effects. Hope that answers your question!
Rakesh Erukulla 2 years ago

great work...
José Luiz Branco 2 years ago

Great!
Steph Spann 2 years ago

Wow, great animation! I loved that you portrayed the dog pretty realistically ("why eat this when I smell the good stuff" & "I'm just gonna sneak my mouth around this") You surely deserve some great praise, I hope you are getting it!
Cynthia Valdes 2 years ago

loved it!
great design! the animation, music and story are awesome
Anastasia 2 years ago

Lovely animation! Well done!
Nana A. Bediako 2 years ago

great work, and loved the instrumental!
sophie 2 years ago

cute dog~! wonderful Jonathan!
MichaelFarris10 2 years ago

Makes for a good object lesson! Thanks for sharing this work with us. I have to recommend this to some of my students. Very funny, endearing work.
MichaelFarris10 2 years ago

Music sounded like the movie ''Sweet and Low Down''. Good choice.
Bryn Geronimo Jones 2 years ago

makes me want a sausage!
Mohammad Akram 2 years ago

Beautiful art style, good music, nice story and an overall amazing short film. Please keep them coming.
marales razvan 2 years ago

nice dog
伴蝶舞雪 2 years ago

very Funny
Ivan Galvan 2 years ago

Classic, love it!
Ishmael Islam 2 years ago

Love the art style of this. It's like a children's book coming to life. Very good!
Ishmael Islam 2 years ago

Oh, and I love the music too!
maciej jaksiemasz 2 years ago

Great one. my doggie reacts the same for food from the bag :). Super style and idea.
DONGEDY 2 years ago

Awesome... well done and thanks for sharing ;)
Trunk Animation 2 years ago

very well done!
Andrea Cordioli 2 years ago

Really nice work :) !
nanz rodriguez 2 years ago

Made my day:)
Simon Capet 2 years ago

Contrats!!! You deserve lots and lots of success. I really enjoyed the story and your aesthetic. You brought a big smile to my face. I'll be keeping an eye out for you name in the future.
Disati 2 years ago

Great stuff! Really amazing
Johan Leion 2 years ago

Wonderful style in this one! feels so much like 2D-animation. I guess it's the painted on shadows and the lack of realtime lightning that does it. Good work!
zack 2 years ago

What is the music!? It's amazing. Very Django Reinhardt. Is the mp3 available somewhere?
Jonathan Holt 2 years ago

I actually got the music from a really great stock music site, Killer Tracks. The music is Gypsy Rag by "romane". If you like that, you might also wanna check out both Peter Krebs and the Kung Pao Chickens Cd "Hot Ginger and Dynamite" and also Pinetop Smith.

The latter two were suggested by my friend Juan. Mad props for that ;-)

Funny thing about the music, I had really sucky music all through production, and then changed it literally the night before it was due, simply because I knew I couldn't keep that old awful thing. I was so lucky to run across that track.
zack 2 years ago

Thank you for the recommendations. I think this video is an amazing production. Keep up the awesome work :)
Samkeem 2 years ago

Did you make this entirely by yourself? Or was there assistance?
Either way...this is amazing
Jonathan Holt 2 years ago

Everything in the short was done by me except the music and sound effects. But I definitely didn't do it by myself. My friends at Ringling as well as my faculty advisor and the instructors all had huge parts to play in making the film. I couldn't have done it without them <3
MHN Productions 2 years ago

Funny and well done!
Igor Goduto 2 years ago

very funny! ^^
Jenny Muñoz 2 years ago

Great job!!!
The Grover Complex 2 years ago

Awesome. The emotion really comes through the animation.
Luiza Liz 2 years ago

Great job, Jonathan :3
Lyse Mondor 2 years ago

It's really cool that you found gypsy jazz music that fit perfect. I am going to check out the hot ginger cd, and enjoy Gonzalo Bergara , and Patrik Saussois. The story of dogs eating real meat raw is catching on, my dog is in for a treat, cuz i'm going to start feeding her raw meat, as my daughter does , for her new puppy. they love it!Nice cartoon!
Alessandra Rossi 2 years ago

Great!!
mapo_mapos 2 years ago

nice color and mattepaint! keep in work in this direction!
julkasfl ♥ 2 years ago

so cute (:
gabriela zapata 2 years ago

ahhh your thesis is such an inspiration~ I watch it every now and then to help remind myself why i'm doing this as well :]
mpared 1 year ago

cool posted at the curious brain
Kimon 1 year ago

Can someone please link me the address where i can find the music that was in the video?(dog and the butcher) In any case, i want that music to my own video, and I dont know how I can do that.
The program I use is windows movie maker.
Jonathan Holt 1 year ago

killertracks.com/launchpage/KillerTracks/
ideaprison 1 year ago

nice little tale(or should i say tail ;))
and great style
Hsun Chen 10 months ago

just saw this (for the first time) in the movie theatre before a showing of Rango! my wife and I both loved it (esp. the dog's slow-motion tonguing and mouthing of the sausage). great work Jonathan!
Jacob Stålhammar 9 months ago

nice one!
just mickey 2 months ago

FABULOUS... would like to see more.. short story and great audio ..visual....thanks. will keep forever for the happy!
Leizelle Guinness 1 month ago

Omg looks like Bubbercin!