I just released my portfolio site’s upgrade last Tuesday and already it’s received a design award. Design Licks, a great web design portal that picks “the greatest sites on the web”, has dubbed us “Site of the Day”. We’ll be on it’s front page for the entire month of June. Not bad for only seven days in operation.

Probably due to a snowball effect of appearing on one site, more and more design sites are recognizing Bad Monkey Studios – many in Japan and Europe too. We’re on the front page of The Best Designs, Pixel Gangerster, Kayac Designer’s Blog, Flash Mania, and Web Trend Awards. We’re also #9 on Design Charts‘ top 40 list. Pinch me, I’m dreaming! On the tush, even!

My new animated short “Watch Out Obama” has been released and can be found at www.watchoutobama.com . The short is based on the unbelievable comments made by Hillary Clinton in regards to the RFK assassination ending the 68 Democratic primary. Many say it was an exhausted slip of the tongue, but she’d said it to Time Magazine two months earlier. Anyway, watch it, enjoy it, and share it.

It’s really tough to do animation about current events. Especially good animation. It took me 15 minutes to write, but four days of 9am-3am animating to complete. This despite the fact that I chose a UPA style of illustration specifically to make the animating process quicker and simpler.