2012 @Timbuktoons

Happy New Year from the Timbuktoons team!

We’re excited about 2013 and proud of our successes of 2012. Check out the highlights below while you celebrate a fresh start to a brand new year!

Top 20 Milestones

• Davey Award (Gold) for Mae Shares a Secret, Davey Award (Silver) for Vacation Surprise 2: Trip to Peru
• Todd Hampson and Sean Copley led a workshop at CTNx for over 100 animation students and professionals
• Launched our new Tumblr blog
• Feature in Kidscreened, Kidscreen’s daily newsletter
• Telly Award (Bronze) for Superhero “How-To” Webisodes
• Timbuktoons featured in Atlanta’s Oz Magazine
• Unveiled our Cartoons With A Cause initiative
• Launched our Social Stream page
• CAO Todd Hampson interviewed by Animation Insider
• Fuzz Feud short accepted into the San Antonio Film Festival
• Passed 300 likes on our Facebook page
• Illustration by CAO Todd Hampson featured on the cover of Oz Magazine
• Four Timbuktoons designs chosen to be included in LogoLounge’s Master Library series
• Launched the Timbuktoons Pinterest boards
• Unveiled “Masters of the Pipeline” our new marketing and client education campaign
• Pitched show concepts to Disney Television Animation, PBS Kids, Cartoon Network and several independent studios and distribution companies
• Featured in Family Fiction Magazine
• 2 environment designs featured on the final “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” Specials on ABC
• Launched our store site, our designs on Redbubble and selections from Amazon
• Introduced our Toon Boom Storyboard Pro and Harmony pipeline for doing high-end fully-animated, as well as, rigged character animation

Top 5 Project Highlights

• Completed illustration and animation for two games (online, iOS)
• Completed our longest duration short and most amount of frame by frame animation
• Completed two shorts for an edutainment series that teaches elementary children about sexual abuse
• Completed a series of illustrations used to pitch services to one of our “dream clients”
• Completed animation and motion graphics work appearing on seven different DVDs

Top 10 Posts

• Mac Lack Ikea Hack
• Animation Layout Tips
• Tweeting Your Own Horn
• A Rare Behind the Scenes Look Inside Sony Pictures Animation
• Cartoons With A Cause
• Inside the Imagination of Carlos Grangel
• EMHE Holiday Specials
• 10 Tips for Directing Voice Artists for Animation
• 7 Things About Being An Artist
• 15 Things I Learned From Andreas Deja

Bonus: Funniest Moments

Random fact inserted into a conversation:
Todd: “I don’t have a workout room, I have a garage.”
Sean: “Frank Lloyd Wright hated garages.”

Road trip hijinks:
Todd: “Is there a Starbucks around here?”
Local Fast Food Employee (pointing): “Nope but that gas station gots some good coffee.”

Email and intern mishap:
Accidentally sent a random cartoon monkey picture to a cloud team member as an art direction sample.

Motivational speech gone awry:
At a lunch retreat (loudly): “Everything we do we should be thinking IP, IP, IP!”