Alot of nice things said about Fatkat in the comment section, thanks David! - We're trying up here dude!!
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Hey Gang,
Check this Kat out. Mr.Murphy is his name, world domination is his game.
Check out "The Pops" of Fatkat's very own Gwen Mitchell. He's kicking it in his fancy Fatkat Hockey Jersey watching Canada's favorite game.
Some of you may remember when Dacapo Productions (Olaf Pyttlik and Clint Skibitzky) visited us back in March .
About 5 hours ago I returned from Winnipeg and the Manitoba Marathon. The great boys at Dacapo flew me out to run in their relay team. There were five legs of the marathon and five different runners. I was the first out of the gate in the first leg taking on 9.2 km. I haven't done that since Olaf and I ran 10km back in March!! But I was feeling good so I went for it.
After the first leg, I was feeling great, still had lots of energy so I handed off the relay belt to Olaf but kept running with him.
Quite possibly the most un masculine picture of Olaf and I that there ever will be.
Still feeling good after 17km. Feeling silly even! So I kept running, this time with Nolan Balzer!
While I was running with Nolan we hit the half way mark of the Marathon which is 14 miles or 20 kilometers. I was starting to feel it, my legs were getting real tired and my feet were starting to hurt. I could feel a huge blister on my big toe!! I told Nolan "Save yourself, go on without me!". As I slowed down to a painful crawl, I watched Nolan dissapear over the horizon.
Here's a good shot of Nolan finishing his stretch of the race, he's such a nice guy, he stuck around and waited for me to finish the third leg. He wasn't even out of breath!
Man was I ever tired! 25.33 Kilometers in 2:40! - I don't know if that's good, but I feel awesome.

"Most of Grad class" - Just that. Most of my grad class. Top Row - Mike Roy, Rodney King, Simon Richard, Marc Daigle, Jessica Beckett, Christine Cunningham, Joel Smith, Nathan Carnahan. Front Row - Dave Michaud, Rene Daigle, Jon Beaman, Julie Malenfant, Natalie Robichaud, Korey McCumber, Adam "Hair" Terrio, Doug Little, Heather Fowler (No relation).
"NBCC studies thier competitors" - Me, Michaud, Rodney King and Adam Terrio scope out the competition at the Ottawa Animation Festival circa 2000.
"Shame" - Picture it...College Graduation....David "Fumble Fingers" Michaud goes down to get his diploma....He drops it and recoils in horror at his gaff and the Dean has to stoop down and pick up his papers. Mwahahaaa. Dave you dumb ass.
The mountains approaching Banff.
ANDREW DUNN at the "castle".
Oh this one was takin before we left...but thought youd enjoy Dunn on a MINIbike.
Dunn was a work machine...we had little time for play, but squeezed in some horseback riding...but Dunn was still " manning" the phones.
Charlie the Squirrel was very helpful in preparing us for pitches..he had some great recommendations we followed.
Andrew and this cowboy spent some quality "alone" time "ranching"...if you know what I mean.
Charlie loves licorice!!!
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Man oh man, look at this!! Kustom Fatkat Goalie gear!! - Here's the blocker - I almost peed when I saw these earlier, come to think of it, I think I just did again!!
Here's what the leg pads are going to look like.
Meet Dallas Daigle, our Temporary Assistant. She's the Kat's Meow! - Filling in for our Momma Kat, Liz Hogan while she's out on vacation!! I have a feeling that Dallas will be hanging around though, even after Lizard comes back to the studio, she's a great help!
David Dick, as you all know by now, straight out of Vancouver this guy is my right hand man on the C21 project, he's doing awesome too.
Big Show (aka - Andrew Blodgett) - Most of you know him by now too, Big show was kidnapped by Andrew Dunn and I while we were in Ottawa a few weeks back. Since then he's climbed straight up through the ranks and is now my Senior Creative in charge of Commercial Production!! I love you Big Show!!
Sean Rule also from Vancouver, came in out of nowhere and is heading up a short demo we're doing for Debra the Zebra. This guy is rocking out!!
Some will remember Louis St.Pierre from the little adventure that Kieth, Melanie and Daniel went on a couple of months ago. We met Louis at the Compu College grad show in Moncton. As soon as I met Louis and saw his work I knew this guy was going to be working with us. He's the shizzle.
Jon Lambe, brother of an old buddy of mine Steve Lambe who also is a former Fatkat. Jon has tons of potential and is working hard to overthrow his brother as king poop. He'll do it here dude, this guys going to be great!!
Maki Fujimoto, this chick is the bee's knees - fresh out of Van Arts in B.C. This fair lady can do it all, draw, animate and she also pinned cameron in less then 8 seconds, greco roman style!!
Justin Lee, well what can I say about this dude, other then I think my wife has the hots for him. Fantastic talent and like Jon Lambe he's a graduate of NBCC's Animation course right here in town. This dude is going places!!