After working in children's television for nearly 10 years, most notably  creating, producing and writing for:

• an award-winning series of animated shorts for "Sesame Street"
• Bill Cosby's Emmy-winning Nick Jr. series "Little Bill," and "Whoopi's Littleburg," (as lyricist)
• a series of specials also seen on Nick Jr., last month

...Eric Weil (C'97. UTV-13 News, The Practical Penn (Restaurant Reviews) won an Emmy.

And just being nominated was a total surprise...

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Back in June I reported that Ryan Levin (C'98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C '97, Without a Net) had co-created a new animated Comedy Central web series for Benny: Escaped Convict.

Now I've got news that their animated Benny character just roasted Bob Saget at his recent Friars' Roast! Check out the clip above for this funny, not-safe-for-work clip!

Between the both of them, Ryan and Nye have worked on some pretty big movies and TV shows.

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(l to r): Ryan Levin (CAS, '98) & Nye Warburton (C'97)

And here's another example of alumni who knew each other at Penn and continued working together to create some great projects...

Ryan Levin (C '98, Without a Net, Theater Arts, Penn Players) and Nye Warburton (C '97, Without a Net) have co-created a new animated Comedy Central web series for Benny: Escaped Convict.

This 4-episode web series will air on Comedy Central's Atom TV on June 23 (2 am!), and then launch on June 26 on Comedy Central's new website here.

The series follows Benny's adventures as he tries to elude the fuzz and avoid going back to the slammer.

Per Ryan, "Our goal is to continue Benny as a web series, with the hope of eventually developing it into a TV series. The future of Benny rides on the success of the webisodes, so please, check em out and pass them along."

Be sure to listen for another Penn alum, Vanessa Mizzone (C'99), who voices a variety of characters in the series.

Check out the trailer here!


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In addition to "The Lift" and "Ephemera", Brendan Marnell (C'05) has now sent us yet another animation he created during his senior year at Penn.

Per Brendan, "'Foray is more of a formalist exercise than anything else. I focused on designing and rigging characters, scale relationships, and camera movements."

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This is a very cool video and the colors and vibrancy reminds me of one of those Dali paintings like the one you see below.

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A few weeks ago, I showcased animator Brendan Marnell's (C'05) "The Lift", an animated short based on the theme of "leaving college".

Today I wanted to share Ephemera, another great film Brendan did during his senior year at Penn.

Per Brendan, "It [Ephemera] was inspired by an experience 'discovering' a series of rooms built into the support structure of South Street Bridge. The walls were covered with layer upon layer of really great graffiti, and I could see people had been using it as a hangout for a long time. I tried to return to the spot a couple weeks later, but the entrance had been cemented shut."

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There certainly are a good number of digital animations coming out of Penn these days.

Brendan Marnell (C'05) created a very cool short called "The Lift" for his Fine Arts thesis project from his 2005 senior year.

Per Brendan, "It's a short animation about a character leaving the world he knows to enter a future he cannot predict. He faces rejection, but ultimately finds a path for himself. Looking back, I think it has a lot more to do with my own situation of leaving school than I realized at the time."

Can you see this in the video?

Brendan currently works as an animator and graphic designer outside DC.

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...Reminds me of another video I posted about a few months ago having to do with graduating from college.

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Great Penn talent continues to surface on the web from Kyle McGinnis (Eng, '08)!


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