ACTION STATS:
- Height: Three leagues, seven fathoms and two inches.
- Weight: Roughly equivalent to that of a dark star.
- Age: Varies, dependent on time.
- Alignment: Mostly goodish.
- Abilities: Superior sleeping skills, expert circle jerker, was once a fish, takes daily multivitamins, has a winged lizard monster for a penis, eats food, doesn’t believe in children, can think backwards and plays video games.
- Weaknesses: Girls, jokes, comedy, webcomics, morals.
- Other Eric Links:
- Animation Reel (2011)
- Tumblr
- Deviant Art
- Email Eric
Biography
Eric is the sole survivor of planet Kyrpton. His father, Jor-El, discovered that the planet was about to explode pretty good so he ejaculated his baby off into space in an experimental space ship. The ship landed on Earth where he grew up to be Superman and everybody knows the rest of the story from there.
No but for reals
Eric is the guy who draws and sometimes writes for this pitiful webcomic. From 2001-2004 he teamed up with Rob and Keith to make an equally stupid webcomic called Mall Monkeys. There were literally thousands upon thousands of people who hated this webcomic on a daily basis. Even today, there are internet scholars partaking in heated discussions over why the comic was so awful. Nearly 10 years from Mall Monkeys’ inception, creators Rob and Eric realized that there were far too many good webcomics on the internet and that they should make the effort to crap things up again. Nowadays Eric spends his time chasing the past and trying to hide the soul crushing emptiness that lies deep within his heart.
What’s this about animation?
Well, I had to stop Mall Monkeys because I went off to art school. My first year I made a little short called Merry Melony Episode 1 and people seemed to dig it. I was pretty much still untrained in animation and story then, so I look back at it these days and go “bleh.” I have tried starting the 2nd of the series multiple times but harddrive crashes, lack of time, and all sorts of life events got in the way. I hope to reboot the series as a graphic novel some day. You can watch the movie on Newgrounds here:
If you like weird flash animation, you'll like this.
Years later I got my bachelor of fine arts at Ringling College of Art and Design in computer animation, where I spent for-fucking-ever producing this 2 minute CG animated short, “The Animator and the Seat“:
Go watch this shit on Youtube real quick, I worked my balls off on it.
That landed me a job where I am currently a lead animator. I’ve worked on such forgettable classics as Open Season 2, 3, and Kung Fu Panda: The Secrets of the Furious Five. Most notably I worked on the new 3D CGI Looney Tunes shorts.
COMMISSIONS
I’m sort of available for commission work, as time permits. I can cook up portraits or caricatures, (realistic or in any style) 2D character animation (using Flash) and 3D character animation. Smaller scale projects are the best projects. I’m going to make a commissions page eventually, but for now I’ll just slop everything here. Below are some examples of my artings:
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If you want to get a hold of me for commission work or otherwise, send me some hatemail.
11 Comments
What a handsome cartoon character, that Eric is.
Hey Eric I love your comic and I am glad I have found you again I was a big fan of Mall Monkeys in High School, but now that I am an old fat fuck I happy to see you are still making new stuff. A while back when trying to search for mall monkeys or anything to do with ya I found a video on your old blog, I was hoping you could maybe find it and possibly re-upload it, mainly the “BIG SMILES” part so I poke fun at my Jewish friends. Thanks
Hey man! The Mall Monkeys Monkumentary, I think, is pretty much gone. Google videos removed it, and I think I lost all the files on a broken harddrive. I learned a lot about the importance of backing things up. If I ever uncover it I will be sure to post it on the site! Thanks for the kind words, cheers.
That is so unfortunate. The video was on constant repeat at the LAN center I frequented, keep up the great work. Maybe it’ll turn up one day.
Maybe that day is today.
http://freakshare.com/files/8piaddsn/Mall-Monkeys-Mockumentary.avi.html
Holy fucking fucks.
Hey. I have a question. Your flash animation moves in an utterly unique manner, and so far I’ve been unable to dissect the technique. It looks a little like you’re copypasta’ing drawings frame to frame, but you don’t get any of the clipping or repeated frames somehow.
That wasn’t a question. Question to follow.
HOW?!?
This is a big question…I’ll have to tackle this with video or other kind of tutorials…some day hopefully.
I was searching through the internets oh…50 bajillion years ago and saw this amazing short about a girl in running shorts, slippers, who has orange hair. It stuck with me a long time, and was a huge source of inspiration for me. I tried checking back up on it a few months ago, and couldn’t find it anywhere. Lo and behold, here I am, enjoying one of my favorite webcomics, and I think, hey, why not check out the artist page, haven’t done that in a while, and bam, under your commission pics is my muse from back when I was like, 14. Point of the story, I adored that animation. I loved it, it has stuck with me for years for some reason. I’ve unwittingly been a fan of you for like, 4 maybe 5 years now. Just wanted to let you know that you have yet another fan out there, who has unknowingly, been a fan of your work for years.
Wow, man, thanks. That’s great to hear. Inspiring. I’ve tried to continue Merry Melony’s story in animated form many times and failed. It’s too much work. I am thinking of a way to start over and to make it into a graphic novel. I’ll keep you posted…thanks again.
That would be super fantastic! I would definitely love to read it!