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2. Jonathan Holt - Demo Reel 2009 - v1

by Jonathan Holt

6 months ago

1. The Dog and the Butcher by Jonathan Holt

by Jonathan Holt

7 months ago

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

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

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Jennifer Newman 7 months ago

Yey, its awesome!!! Great work!
Bryan T 7 months ago

I love this! The art style is great, and the story is great too! I really feel for the dog!
Gianna Ruggiero 6 months ago

This is so good! What an awesome style
kfaczoo 6 months ago

Sausyyyyy ;-) Great!
Juan Andrés Castañeda 6 months ago

Hells yeah.
lumgik 6 months ago

Cute and sweet illustration like animation.
Nice work=)
Alton Carroll 4 months ago

Wondergul bit of work... Especially love the cell shading render...
Gaschka 4 months ago

Wow, the look is superb. the animation coulb a little bit snappier though! but overall: good job!
Dennis Seid 4 months ago

Excellent work! I like it very much
Matt 3 months ago

This was really awesome! Reminded me of a Pixar short, very cute.
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 3 months ago

Great work Jonathan!
gabe maestas 3 months ago

very fun! Nicely done
Erkme73 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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!
maximusdimensional 3 months ago

wow! cool.. i love it!
Jenny Nguyen 3 months 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 3 months ago

sweet!
d.i.m llc 3 months ago

Yeah!!!!
zhushuicaoerju 3 months ago

sweat and fun!
Tom Plus 3 months ago

Very funy video !

:D
Max Brezzi 3 months ago

cooooollll :)
Webtree Limited 3 months ago

Brilliant!
kaspars 3 months ago

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

but, great story anyway :)
onemore 3 months ago

very very nice!!!
arancia idraulica 3 months ago

Bravo!
Adriana de Barros 3 months ago

A joy to watch!

It will be featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
duncankay 3 months ago

amazing
Noostar Showtheworld 3 months ago

Loved it.
howdytom 3 months ago

awesome work. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
The Spit 3 months ago

Great good stuff ^^
Julio Neto 3 months ago

Amazing! ^-^
Christian Chaos 3 months ago

very veery fynny i like this video.Amazing:PP
hnawelhik 3 months ago

j'aime bien le petit chien
tritochke 3 months ago

good story :)
L. Njou Asai 3 months ago

About time media started to represent the dog nation. Short and effective work Jonathan.
WakeUp!!! SkateMag 3 months ago

excellent work!!! keep it going:D
Jason Burger Visual 3 months ago

WOW! Awesome short! I think this is much better than some of the animated movies I've seen recently.
Atrian Wagner 3 months ago

Aww! This is adorable! I love the character design.
Pieter Tierens 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

great work...
José Luiz Branco 3 months ago

Great!
Steph Spann 3 months 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 3 months ago

loved it!
great design! the animation, music and story are awesome
Anastasia 3 months ago

Lovely animation! Well done!
Nana Bediako 3 months ago

great work, and loved the instrumental!
sophie 3 months ago

cute dog~! wonderful Jonathan!
MichaelFarris10 3 months 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 3 months ago

Music sounded like the movie ''Sweet and Low Down''. Good choice.
Bryn Jones 3 months ago

makes me want a sausage!
Mohammad Akram 3 months ago

Beautiful art style, good music, nice story and an overall amazing short film. Please keep them coming.
marales razvan 3 months ago

nice dog
伴蝶舞雪 3 months ago

very Funny
Ivan Galvan 3 months ago

Classic, love it!
Ishmael Islam 3 months ago

Love the art style of this. It's like a children's book coming to life. Very good!
Ishmael Islam 3 months ago

Oh, and I love the music too!
maciej jaksiemasz 3 months ago

Great one. my doggie reacts the same for food from the bag :). Super style and idea.
DONGEDY 3 months ago

Awesome... well done and thanks for sharing ;)
trunk animation 3 months ago

very well done!
Andrea Cordioli 3 months ago

Really nice work :) !
nanz rodriguez 3 months ago

Made my day:)
Simon Capet 3 months 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.
Andre O. 3 months ago

Great stuff! Really amazing
Johan Leion 3 months 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 3 months ago

What is the music!? It's amazing. Very Django Reinhardt. Is the mp3 available somewhere?
Jonathan Holt 3 months 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 3 months ago

Thank you for the recommendations. I think this video is an amazing production. Keep up the awesome work :)
Samkeem 3 months ago

Did you make this entirely by yourself? Or was there assistance?
Either way...this is amazing
Jonathan Holt 3 months 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 3 months ago

Funny and well done!
Igor Goduto 3 months ago

very funny! ^^
Jenny Muñoz 3 months ago

Great job!!!
The Grover Complex 3 months ago

Awesome. The emotion really comes through the animation.
Luiza Liz 3 months ago

Great job, Jonathan :3
gideon corby 3 months ago

Nice story Jonathan. You know what your doggy deserves.. he deserves a 'Dog'sBestFriend'.
Lyse Mondor 3 months 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 months ago

Great!!
mapo_mapos 1 month ago

nice color and mattepaint! keep in work in this direction!
julkasfl ♥ 25 days ago

so cute (: