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The new greatest thing ever created

2012-02-02T13:43:00.001-08:00

A visit with John C

2012-01-24T19:53:00.000-08:00

Had an awesome visit with John C Reily (voice of Ralf in our upcoming film). Always so cool when voice talent is willing to sit down with the animators. He's just as funny in real life, by the way.

Tangled may be best Disney Movie of all time

2012-01-13T14:14:00.001-08:00

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/13/10141375-tangled-may-be-best-disney-movie-of-all-time#.TxCHfPRawvU.facebook

2012-01-13T09:43:00.001-08:00

Tangled Ever After

2012-01-06T15:21:00.000-08:00

Will show in front of Beauty and the Beast 3d

Unicorn City

2012-01-03T12:48:00.000-08:00

My friend Bryan Lefler made this film. Already won best film in LA and Chicago comedy film festivals. Can't wait to see it!
Coming to theaters in February

Sci-Fi Mashup

2012-01-03T12:22:00.000-08:00

a reminder of how completely addicted I am to sci-fi

2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-12-31T16:45:00.001-08:00

...bring it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-22T09:43:00.000-08:00

Honestly, I really dislike most Christian media, it's usually low budget with really bad acting. This movie is one of those rare exceptions (probably because there is no talking). Very well done.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas everyone!

My notes from dailies

2011-12-19T11:35:00.000-08:00

I like notes like this

2011-12-16T13:32:00.001-08:00

2011-12-14T09:56:00.001-08:00

2011-12-08T17:10:00.001-08:00

Happy Birthday Dave!!!

2011-12-06T06:56:00.001-08:00

Prep and Landing 2

2011-12-05T10:05:00.001-08:00

Tune in tonight at 5 on ABC!

Quick Sketch of Becky

2011-11-26T23:17:00.001-08:00

Day at Disney with Dad

2011-11-24T08:15:00.001-08:00

Cereal Bar

Brought them to dailies, they were pretty brutal in critiquing my shot.

Got to draw a bit on the giant chalk board.

My mentor class is awesome

2011-11-18T14:49:00.000-08:00

Had some students in town for CTN, they came by the studio and gave me astronaut ice cream and real Canadian maple syrup. You guys are awesome!

Disney looking for Animators

2011-11-17T21:07:00.000-08:00

Hey all! We're currently looking for you awesome CG animators.
Please let me know if you're interested in applying

Happy Birthday to my lil Bro!

2011-11-15T20:29:00.001-08:00

Prep and Landing now in world of color!

2011-11-15T10:44:00.001-08:00

God Bless our Military

2011-11-11T09:42:00.001-08:00

Thank You for your service.

-- Posted from my iPhone

I am a banana

2011-11-03T13:05:00.001-07:00

Time once again for my favorite Halloween short

2011-10-24T10:55:00.001-07:00

2011-10-21T09:51:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday to mi Papa!!!

2011-10-19T13:36:00.001-07:00

Love you Dad!!!

The cutest Punzel of them all

2011-10-13T20:38:00.001-07:00

Wreck-It Ralf

2011-10-11T14:39:00.000-07:00

Now in full production ;)

If we ever get a dog...it will look like this.

2011-10-11T09:12:00.001-07:00

Why kids are so awesome

2011-10-07T12:38:00.001-07:00

A farewell to an inspiring man.

2011-10-06T10:42:00.000-07:00

It's official now!

2011-10-03T14:31:00.001-07:00

Happy Anniversary!!!!

2011-09-28T18:22:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to my smokin hot wife. 9 amazing years!!!!

Love you honey!!!!

2011-09-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

Prep wins another Emmy!!!

2011-09-13T16:30:00.000-07:00

Congrats to the entire crew!!!

2011-09-12T21:24:00.001-07:00

-- Posted from my iPhone

Mugtuk is here!

2011-09-08T22:53:00.000-07:00

Yes, thats right!!! available in the apple store.
...Tim is my favorite. Hope you all like it!

Disney crew is awesome

2011-09-06T17:50:00.001-07:00

Thanks to all my Disney crew buddies that pitched in and got me this awesome toy. You guys are cool.

Earthquake!!!

2011-09-01T20:11:00.001-07:00

We had a 4.3 in my backyard today. Very small, but certainly woke us all up.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Rapunazels costume is way better this year

2011-08-28T17:15:00.001-07:00

...and I think it's awesome that half the Disney store is Rapunzel

-- Posted from my iPhone

2011-08-24T09:09:00.001-07:00

My wife just had major surgery and shes up and walking the next day

I get a cold and I can barley get out of bed.
...I'm such a wimp

-- Posted from my iPhone

Mugtuk coming to an Iphone near you

2011-08-12T19:57:00.000-07:00

Hi Everybody! Some friends and I will be releasing our first Iphone app first week in September. You can follow the link here to see what it is and enter to win some free Mugtuk swag. Its pretty much the greatest app of all time.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mugtuk/229036903799245

Congratulations Becky Osmond!

2011-08-09T17:33:00.003-07:00

...Hell week is secured

Welcome Bailee!!!

2011-08-03T19:43:00.001-07:00

Welcome my new little girl
"Bailee Faith Osmond"
Born on Tuesday morning

Mom and baby doing great

-- Posted from my iPhone

Baby on it's way

2011-07-24T21:54:00.001-07:00

Hoping not too soon. Will keep everyone posted

-- Posted from my iPhone

2011-07-20T16:11:00.000-07:00

They screened this Norwegian flick for us today at the studio and I must say that I rather enjoyed it, sort of a funny "Cloverfield" like show.Very well done

John Carter

2011-07-18T13:53:00.000-07:00

Bird with MI4 and now Stanton with John Carter...both look pretty awesome

Weekend Battle

2011-07-15T15:03:00.000-07:00

A friend here at work, Brian Kesinger, did this. Check out his link for more awesome

http://willdraw4fun.blogspot.com/

2011-07-15T14:08:00.000-07:00

This was from a dailies way back on the first Prep and Landing, I think it depicts well the mood I was in.

This guy is my boss

2011-07-13T17:22:00.000-07:00

A fine day to animate horses

2011-07-13T14:51:00.001-07:00

2011-07-12T10:14:00.000-07:00

Last One is off

2011-07-08T08:46:00.001-07:00

Dailies Notes

2011-07-07T15:43:00.001-07:00

Dailies are when we meet with the Directors so they can give us notes. Often I am waiting a long time for a turn to have my shot ripped to pieces, so I draw to pass the time. I decided to start posting some of these dailies notes for all to see. You'll find nothing particularly brilliant in these, just chicken scratches and poorly drawn random thoughts. A glimpse, if you will, into the mildly exciting world of Disney Animation.

2011-07-06T13:12:00.001-07:00

Happy 4th

2011-07-04T23:06:00.001-07:00

God Bless this the greatest Nation on the planet, so grateful for it.

-- Posted from my iPhone

Sleepyhead Animation

2011-06-29T21:17:00.000-07:00

I just animated this Logo ...for pretty much one of the greatest companies of all time!

Lanterns

2011-06-28T09:24:00.001-07:00

2011-06-27T17:37:00.001-07:00

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A buddy of mine from work did this...so awesome.
Check out his blog at:
bighappyaccident.com

Absolutely beautiful

2011-06-27T10:13:00.001-07:00

4th Kid

2011-06-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

"If you want to know what it’s like to have a *4th* *kid*.
Just image you are drowning, and someone hands you
a *4th* *kid*." -Jim Gaffigan

(Thanks sending me this Darrin)

Stop Motion Experiment

2011-06-20T16:06:00.001-07:00

Stop Motion Experiment from 23lunes on Vimeo.

The Secret to Great Animation

2011-06-03T16:21:00.000-07:00

I had a dream two nights ago in which I was sitting down at a table with Glen Keane. He told me he was going to share with me the secret to great animation. I quickly pulled out a pen and paper as Glen started to speak...but "Wait", I said "I forgot to do something, I'll be right back Glen". I left, shortly returned and began again to listen to his wise counsel. "Hold on Glen, I need to run to the restroom real quick". These interruptions continued happening until, all of the sudden, my dream was over.

So what was the secret?! I was so close to an answer!

Well, I went and talked to the real Glen Keane today and told him about my dream, he laughed ...and then he actually did tell me what the secret to great animation is.

Pretty cool

2011-06-03T11:40:00.001-07:00

Panda 2

2011-05-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

Was Awesome!
Especially liked the tease ending for the next film.

Memorial Day Murph

2011-05-31T11:09:00.000-07:00

Did my Memorial Day Murph workout yesterday. I completely wussed out on the squats but pushed myself pretty hard on the rest. In a lot of good pain today ;) Next year I'll train better before hand.

Remembering Operation Redwing

2011-05-29T21:25:00.001-07:00

Everyone should read this book

2011-05-29T21:22:00.001-07:00

Happy Memorial Day

2011-05-29T21:15:00.001-07:00

Thank You to all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve our great Nation. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Brave

2011-05-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

First Rendered Image of Pixars Brave

Does anyone doubt that this movie will be amazing?

Brilliant!

2011-05-24T11:01:00.001-07:00

Yes my friends....its about time

2011-05-23T17:00:00.001-07:00

Awesome video ref

2011-05-23T13:36:00.001-07:00

TinTin Tailer

2011-05-18T11:28:00.000-07:00

Look! another highly polished piece of mocap trash. One could argue that they're not showing us the characters faces for dramatic effect...but we all know the real reason.

Thor Review, as promised

2011-05-17T23:14:00.001-07:00

Quite possibly the worst Marvel film to date. Didn't care one bit about any of these characters (especially his ridiculous friends, did they even need to be in this film?) Acting was meh to awful, especially from Thor and the action scenes were really quite boring. Two moments of particular lameness were

1) The bar scene - isn't it just so funny to watch the God of Thunder drink lots of beer? "Ha,ha,ha, this planet has such excellent alcohol!" After having to sit through that boring meaningless moment in the movie we should have at least gotten a nice drunken Thor bar fight scene out of it.

2) Why is the special forces guy using a bow and arrow? Is that really the preferred weapon for taking down an immortal?

Shame on all you rotten tomatoes movie reviewers that gave this film a 77%............77%?!!!!!!!!!

Been a day

2011-05-17T19:50:00.001-07:00

Lakers...you stink

2011-05-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

Thanks a lot Lakers, so much for another Championship.
How embarrassing

Just Saw Thor

2011-05-04T23:02:00.001-07:00

We had an early screening of the film here on the studio lot. I will post my review shortly.

Got Him!!!!!

2011-05-01T20:16:00.001-07:00

So long Bin Laden...enjoy hell.

Very cool puppetry

2011-04-26T13:25:00.001-07:00

Happy Easter

2011-04-24T15:35:00.001-07:00

I watched this Easter movie today, loved it and thought I would share:

Part1
http://youtu.be/KTuiupCmAHk

Part2
http://youtu.be/ZhiSAqURz78

Part 3
http://youtu.be/_kpdE3hJa-I

Found out that we're having a girl!

2011-04-15T14:45:00.000-07:00

Nice style to this animation

2011-04-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

The Pirat from river/Petra Monheim on Vimeo.

iPad Animation Fun

2011-04-11T10:59:00.001-07:00

I was playing around with some different animation apps and my kids started providing sound effects, it was so cute that I got it recorded.

How Walt Disney Cartoons are made

2011-04-05T15:53:00.001-07:00

Characature Show

2011-04-04T14:37:00.001-07:00

A buddy of mine did this drawing of me for the Disney characature show. I'm completely insulted...my double chin is at least twice that size.

-- Posted from my iPhone

The New Senator from Utah

2011-04-01T15:31:00.001-07:00

Congrats to my brother Aaron the new Senator!
Refreshing to have at least one politician out there with moral integrity.
Way to go bro!

-- Posted from my iPad

Tangled DVD out today!

2011-03-29T10:38:00.000-07:00

For your viewing pleasure, here are some of the shots I did on the film.

AFV

2011-03-28T11:00:00.001-07:00

http://daweb.fas.fa.disney.com/~jwheeler/AFV_Tangled.mov

The coolest thing you will ever see

2011-03-23T11:41:00.001-07:00

Cyclotrope

2011-03-18T14:39:00.001-07:00

The Cyclotrope from tim Wheatley on Vimeo.

A fine day today at Disney

2011-03-16T10:12:00.001-07:00

Ipad2...Purchased :)

2011-03-11T14:45:00.001-08:00

Ipad2 announced!

2011-03-02T13:02:00.000-08:00

Apparently "Tangled" and the New Ipad go hand in hand.

Solar Flare

2011-03-01T12:17:00.000-08:00

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center spectacular close-up of a recent gigantastic solar flare. What you are seeing here occurred during 90 minutes on February 24, 2011.

Visit this site for panoramic high definition close-up:
http://gizmodo.com/#!5773563/you-have-never-seen-the-sun-fire-so-close

Animated Buildings

2011-02-25T07:22:00.000-08:00

Apparently, these are not post processed videos, animations are projected onto buildings.
So cool!

Just Watched Last Discovery Launch

2011-02-24T14:11:00.000-08:00

...and you all missed it.

Something fun

2011-02-24T13:11:00.000-08:00

Saw this on Cartoon brew and thought,
"my kids are going to love this"

Best gift of all time

2011-02-15T15:20:00.000-08:00

My wife got me the original un"CG"defiled Star Wars trilogy
for Valentines day.

That is love.

Chillin up north

2011-02-12T15:11:00.001-08:00

-- Posted from my iPhone