Frogchildren Studios announcements

2009-08-05T13:20:00.000-07:00

Frogchildren Studios is proud to present the trailer for
"The Clockwork Girl", based on the graphic novel
of the same name.

Frogchildren teaming up with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music

2009-04-30T13:15:00.000-07:00

"Frogchildren Studios is proud to announce we are teaming up with G.O.O.D. Music, MY Music, Kanye West and Malik Yusef on the upcoming album “Kanye West and Malik Yusef present G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night”

“101 Distribution is releasing the first authorized independent release from Kayne West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. The 30 song double disc is called G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night and features KRS-One, Twista, Jennifer Hudson, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Bun B and of course almost every other G.O.O.D. Music artist.”

Frogchildren’s Kevin Hanna and Barnaby Ward are bringing together 30 of the top artists and illustrators to create a unique image for each song off the album to be used as Album Art, T-Shirt designs and limited edition prints. Artists include: Tony Philippou, Jim Mahfood, phunk studio, Jeff Matsuda, Andrea Innocent, Christian Ward, Ronald "D-pi" Wimberly, Corey Lewis, and more!.

Kanye West has posted a single from the album on his blog here

Frogchildren Update!The Rundown:

2009-03-19T14:30:00.000-07:00

We just updated our work section. Here's some of what we've been working on this year:

We just finished a great comic, called Cree psville with the producers of Napoleon Dynamite and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.You can see a few images from it here, and get the comic itself on free comics day.

The work we did for Disney's new network, DisneyXD, is now online.

Frogchildren's Kevin Hanna is one of the artists contributing to Emerald City Comic Con's Monsters and Dames Charity Artbook. A lot of our favorites are involved, like Scott Morse, Bruce Timm, Becky Cloonan and more. Part of the proceeds from will benefit the Seattle Children's Hospital so pick up a copy.

Also in the news, we moved out of our tiny Lynnwood Office and are in Frogchildren Studios' spacious downtown SEATTLE suite and it a beautiful thing. We can see the Puget Sound, the PI Globe and the Space Needle by turning our head.

As always Frogchildren Studios is a Seattle-based Multi-Media entertainment company that develops and produces unique and compelling content across the media spectrum. Email us at frogchildren@gmail.com if you have interest in putting our services to your good use.

Frogchildren Studio Reel from Kevin Hanna on Vimeo.

Frogchildren Studio Reel 2008

2008-09-16T05:47:00.001-07:00

Frogchildren Studios is a Seattle-based Multi-Media entertainment company that develops and produces unique and compelling content across the media spectrum. Email us at frogchildren@gmail.com if you have interest in putting our services to your good use.

Untitled from Kevin Hanna on Vimeo.

Kevin Hanna to Keynote at 2008 Austin GDC

2008-09-14T23:13:00.000-07:00

Kevin Hanna, Frogchildren's creative director and founder, will be a Keynote Speaker at Game Developers Conference in Austin

Google Lively 's Kevin Hanna to Keynote Worlds in Motion Summit at 2008 Austin GDC

The event marks Google's first real talk on Lively since its debut. more information here

edit: The talk was well received, a few press snippets here:

wired

gamesindustry.biz

gamasutra

slashdot

"16 Miles to Merricks" on shelves now!

2008-09-08T14:59:00.001-07:00

Untitled from Kevin Hanna on Vimeo.
Frogchildren Studios is happy to announce it's first graphic novel: "16 Miles to Merricks" by Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Barnaby Ward. Part art book, part graphic novel, “Sixteen Miles to Merricks and other works”, collects”16 miles to Merricks”, “Hibernation”, “The Forest”, “Rooftops” as well as a large gallery of Ward’s best paintings and illustrations in this 200+ page omnibus. Look for it in comic stores now! A 24 page preview can be seen here.

CLICK TO ORDER ON AMAZON.COM

"16 Miles to Merricks" Announced

2008-05-08T22:18:00.000-07:00

" This is one of the must-have indie books of the year." -Previews

Frogchildren Studios is happy to announce it's first graphic novel: "16 Miles to Merricks" by Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Barnaby Ward. Part art book, part graphic novel, “Sixteen Miles to Merricks and other works”, collects”16 miles to Merricks”, “Hibernation”, “The Forest”, “Rooftops” as well as a large gallery of Ward’s best paintings and illustrations in this 200+ page omnibus. Look for it in comic stores this August. A 24 page preview can be seen here.

CLICK TO ORDER
ON AMAZON.COM

On sale in August/ 212 PGS.

ISBN 978-1-60585-150-1

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HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
"Beautiful drawings, beautiful women, I couldn't stop turning the pages."
- Jeff Smith - Bone, RASL

"Barnaby Ward mixes the class and glamour of european
illustration, with the flair and originality of Japanese manga to create wonderfully compelling and stunning pieces of art !"
- Ashley Wood - Popbot, Metal Gear Solid

"Barnaby Ward has the design sense and color palette that I would kill for, and If I ever meet him in person I'll probably do just that."
- Dave Johnson - 100 Bullets, Batman

"That Barnaby fellow has the imaginative design chops of an Art Ninja! I would hate him if I hadn't decided to love him."
- Dan Hipp - Amazing Joy Buzzards, Gyakushu

"I love the worlds Ward creates, you get the feeling you've visited them before on some oneiric trip, they're in our head deep down there, strangely he seems to have access to them.
Barnaby lets his layouts breath and stretch their legs in beautiful full panel pages, the sense of scale in these is powerful and inspiring. His short stories and illustrations in the second part of the book are also absolutely stunning, "Rooftops" is a total stand out. Fantastic!"
- Enrico Casarosa - Pixar

"The mind of Barnaby Ward must be very much like the streets of the Barbary Coast: filled with lurking dangers and surreal realities that tantalize your eye while plucking your nerves like the strings of an old guitar. It's as if, for a short time, you're allowed to see through the eyes of Alice, the White Rabbit, and the Queen of Hearts all at once, with Ward's twisted line work heightening the excitement of your slide down the rabbit hole."
- Scott Morse -Spagetti Western, Soulwind

"The stark, surrealist atmosphere of Barnaby's art is quite captivating. It manages a perfect balance between cinematic world building and graphical minimalism."
- Dave Roman Agnes Quill