THE STUDIO
for many years i've drawn on this big block with a screen on it, but now i also shoot my pictures on film with another big block. it doesn't have a screen though. it has claws inside. there are plans to graft a claw mechanism, shutter and lens onto my head so that i can cut out the middleman entirely and make films truly independently, but science is unfortunately not ready.
Tom Loudon is an American animator, cartoonist, entrepreneur, professional businessman, pathological liar and discoverer of the pencil. Originally prophesied in Sumerian rock paintings, the budding artist finally emerged centuries later out of a deep crevasse in central New Jersey, circa 2006.
Tom's earliest creative endeavors are documented in school notebooks, worksheets, crude comics and penciled portraits.
A startling similarity can be drawn between these early works and Tom's newest works, still understanding the human body to be nothing more than a round head, a triangular body, and flabby limblike shapes. Nevertheless, Tom embraces these crude traits and qualities as paramount in his work. This is probably so that he doesn't have to tell people that he can't draw.
Tom's primitive moving work consisted often of stick figures engaging in violent, but action-packed combat, some too awesome (or too crude) to show. This is still one of his guilty pleasures.
His earliest "student films", aside from two live-action shorts, were crude "animatics" produced in his early years of high school. Tom took multiple introductory film classes intended for live-action filmmakers, and thus had a one week deadline to complete most of his hand-drawn work. Nevertheless, his student films were generally well-received. A project written around a stolen appendix caper received a B.
Tom utilizes two approaches: a Cintiq and computer, or paper, pencil, crayons, and a big 16mm motion-picture camera.
