Blue Sky for Jake Parker
I've written about Jake Parker on this blog before. Jake is a former Photoshop student who also took Drawing and Life Drawing classes with Jim Garrison. Jake was super talented. He loved, loved, loved animation and illustration. I'm terribly exited to report that Jake is a proud papa (again) and he's now at Blue Sky Studios in New York. Blue Sky did ICE AGE and ROBOTS. Congrats to Jake!
Jake's career has been a steady climb. He went from Mesa Community College to a job at the Phoenix-based Fox Animation Studios. He began as an inbetweener on ANASTASIA. Then he worked as a concept designer for gaming company Phantagram in Los Angeles. His next jump was to ReelFX in Dallas before settling in at Blue Sky. Hard to believe it was a few short years ago that Jake was in my class (mostly ignoring me and doodling ... I saved a cartoon he drew of me teaching ... I'll have to scan it and post it). Be sure to check out Jake's site at Agent44.Com. He's very generous about posting his work.
Kohl Glass was attending MCC at the same time as Jake. Kohl was also interested in animation and film. Kohl is currently completing and animated short entitled Der Ostwind that they started while they were still at MCC. In fact, there is a very early Der Ostwind archive that has a lot of the concept art that Jake Parker created for the film. One of my favorites is the blueline of vonKellerman running.
