Frank Panucci's Page

Are you a trained or self-taught animator?

Yes.

Are you an animation production company, educational institute, animation organization or animation festival?

Does a guy working alone count as a company? Then yeah. My tax papers say that, so yeah.

Tell us a little bit about your company, organization or festival.

I produce 2D and 3D animation for a variety of clients. I enjoy creating weird, dynamic work.

Where are you located or based?

Telecommuting allows me to be everywhere at once.

Do you have an online portfolio or link to your work?

http://www.frankpanucci.com

What's your favorite animation (tv show, short, feature film)?

Damn. I dunno. Too many to list. I usually like TV cartoons better than animated features. For technical excellence, I like PIXAR. For genuine entertainment, I like ADULT SWIM product.

What or who influenced you to started animating?

Every cartoon and stop-motion film I saw as a kid.

Do you work in the industry or create animation as a hobby?

I animate professionally, but I'm not in "the industry", as such. Productions include animated FX for indy movies, commercials, titles for regionally-seen TV shows, small-time commercials, etc.

Tell us a bit about the software and hardware used in your creative work.

Software: Lightwave for 3D. A little bit of everything for 2D. After Effects. Vegas. Paint Shop Pro (Photoshop bugs me). Lots more.

Hardware: A farm of Q6600 quad-core PCs. The main workstation has a nice GeForce card, a Wacom Bamboo, four TB of storage or so. Other PCs in the pile have $15 OEM GeForces bought as surplus. The PC on which I compose music has an Echo Mia sound card. Monitor is a 22" Asus HD whatchamacallit. Audio flows through a big old Sherwood amp feeding a pair of battered Klipsch Heresies. Multiple PCs feed the amp through a Mackie 1202. There's other junk on the desk, but I'm bored now.

Where has your work been showcased on television, internet, film festivals, mobile etc?

►Educational TV shows, including MATH MONSTERS (just some models!), LETTER TV, and KSNN NEWS YOU CAN USE (mostly audio and scores, some limited animation).

►Commercials I care to talk about include WEE CARE, as seen on my site.

►Corporate presentations (motion graphics and lots of moving text in AE).

►Animated sequences for low-budget straight to DVD movies, including VAMPIRE WHORES, DEFCON 2012, and others I can't remember right now. Oddly, I have never seen even one of them after they wrapped.

►Short animated video AUTOMATON for Red Fortress Entertainment.

►A large boring pile of service work, involving mundane video production chores.

Any projects we can look forward to seeing from you in the near future?

►Going on five years now, I've been producing REPERKUSSIONZ, an animated science fiction epic that promises to showcase actual moving images, and it will also offer synchronized sound requiring no special intervention by the viewer. I am in talks to provide animated effects for a superhero feature. "In talks" means I'll get the job if the funding comes together. Ha ha.

Can you recommend an animation film or animation book that every animator should see/read?

Just single-frame through any movie with moving characters and objects. Watch how stuff moves. Copy and adapt what you see in your animation medium of choice.