Trying out my nifty new iPad stylus.  Must start drawing more!

Here's my demo for 2013.  New content coming soon! Brian Muelhaupt Animation Demo Reel 2013 from Brian Muelhaupt on Vimeo .

I love working in animation, but sometime one of the side effects I find is when I spend all day drawing, I spend less time drawing just fo...

Here is a recent commercial spot I was the animation director for.  Produced by the awesome people at Nathan Love!

A show I was very proud to be a part of will be debuting on Netflix this Christmas Eve!  It turned out so pretty.  I believe it will be Netf...

After a long time away!

Quick sketching day at the Met again, another detail study of the Uglino statue.

Pen-sketching a family of spider monkeys while traveling with the family in Okinawa, Japan!

Today marks my 1-year anniversary working at Titmouse, Inc.  It's been a wild, busy, strange year!  Here's my film for Titmouse...

Impromtu sketch day at the Met.  Lefebvre's "Graziella" and and Ruckstull's "Evening".  I plan to go back an...

Breaking in my nifty new Adonit Touch stylus on the subway.  Sketching on the iPad still takes some getting used to but this stylus makes i...

The final episode of the current season of Superjail!  airs tonight at 12:15 am.  It was a real treat to able to work together with some man...

It's been a looong break in between postings.  This is one of the reasons why: Superjail! Season 3   is now airing Sundays on [adult...

Little bit of (notably) overdue practice in the park.

The sketchbook's been looking pretty empty lately!

First post of the new year brings quick pen crowd-watching gestures from cafes and such.  It's a challenge to go back to straight pen-w...

We stopped by the Frick Collection today for a short sketch session.  It's a fantastic museum and I'd like to go back soon for furt...

After several months hiatus I finally made it back to the gesture drawing class.  It's fun to see how easy it is to get rusty at this k...

Over Thanksgiving vacation we checked out a traveling Rembrandt exhibit.  We managed to get a few quick studies in before we were told that...

We decided to take in the Raleigh Zoo over Thanksgiving.  It's been a while since I last tried straight-up brush and pen gestures, but ...

Today the Sun-Moon Sweet'N Low spot was featured on Cold Hard Flash!   Super cool stuff.  Check it out and spread the love: http://c...

It was another nice Saturday so we stopped by the Natural History Museum again for a little last-minute studying. Later at dinner...

The two commercial spots for Sweet'N Low that we made last month are now on the air!  I was Animation Director and also provided the ani...

My wife and I stopped by the Natural History Museum this afternoon.  It was only an hour before closing but we managed to find a place to...

Random stuff from the sketchbook.  It's a slow build-up to get back to sketching for myself outside of work this year.  Coming up ar...

I watched Double Indemnity and Orson Welles's The Stranger today, both great films.  I'm warming up for some new storyboards so...

  Flipping through some seldom-used sketchbooks I found a whole bunch of studies from when I rode the subway into work in the mornings t...

Back in July three major productions I was working on for the better part of a year or more came to a close.  Afterward we took the month of...

Some new boards I've been kicking around for an old project.  There's a few more pages in the works!  These were done in Sketchbook ...

I got myself an iPad last month and have been playing around with Sketchbook Pro.  Using the stylus is an interesting challenge for me.  Her...