This summer I was hired to design some background characters for an already-in-production animated Christmas special of Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

I'm not sure if any of my creations (below) made the final cut, but if you watch it, be on the lookout for any of these unsavory characters lurking in the background crowd scenes. It was a good exercise for me to keep my usual cartoony style to a minimum and try to keep clothing and facial features closer to realistic proportions.

The special is showing on CBS in the States on Friday, December 11th, , 8/7c. Sponsored by Macy's.

Directed by the talented Pete Circuitt.

I'm one of the spotlight artists in the December issue of Digital Arts magazine. See my page below or I recommend buying one for tons of helpful tutorials and inspiring artwork.

I was just interviewed by the contemporary illustration news site, Ape on the Moon, about my recent graphic novels, work process, and inspirations.

Read it here!


Thanks Alex!

What's green, white and moves at 25 frames per second?

These three spots I designed and animated for Leadwire- a search marketing company! Music by the talented Sepia Productions.

You can view them larger here, on Vimeo.



Leadwire Spot- "What is Search?"




Leadwire Spot- "Tracking"



Leadwire Spot- "Time to Talk"

I've been recently hired to do a series of character designs and illustrations for Denmark -based, Wooha!

Wooha! is a new kind of media company offering people advertisements on your phone- but only for brands you are interested in! No spam, no annoying commercials, AND you get paid for every one you receive. You can keep the money or you can donate it to charity!

You can see my illustrations here-

WOOHA.DK

I've also animated the Wooha character for their first TV ad-



Buy your fitness cow today!

Translation- The first part of the commercial is a fake, annoying advertisement for Fitness Cow. It is interrupted by our man hammering down a sign saying "NO RIDICULOUS ADS". He then pulls out his friendly phone which pays him for receiving an ad he wants to see!

Commercial Produced by
Sweet Creative of Copenhagen DK

Hee Haw! We just wrapped the new cartoon for Kur Organic Superfoods! It's to promote the new Morning Glory Muesli that's hitting the shelves over in Denmark.

Again, the entire design is based on the Kur brand seed shape and style created by super talented Copenhagen-based design studio- Sweet Creative. Michael Adler Miltersen of Sepia Productions stirred up the knee slapping, toe tappin' tunes.

If you're on Facebook- check out Kur's Group or my Illustration Page.

Intitial character designs for the short-

Here's a new animated extended commercial I recently designed and animated for KUR- a Danish organic superfood company.

I had tons of fun working on this simple and sweet cartoon. The entire design is based on the Kur brand seed shape and style created by super talented design studio- Sweet Creative. Michael Adler Miltersen of Sepia Productions concocted the fun, upbeat music.

There's more Kur animation to come in 2009. See you there!

Join Kur's Facebook Group or the Aaron Blecha Illustration Fan Page!

To celebrate my favorite English holiday, Bonfire Night- I drew up a happy, burning Guy Fawkes for some self-promotional postcard mailers. If you are unfamiliar with the tradition and history of Bonfire Night in the UK click HERE or read on-

The new issue of Edge (video game culture magazine) is out on the shelves now! Pick up a copy to see some new illustrations that I did a few weeks ago for an article on Modding- A slang for "modifying"- when gamers change the appearance of their characters or various parts of the environment.

I did a feature spread illustration depicting a medieval scene on the left side with a knight being sucked through a portal into another world full of space marines and crabby aliens on a distant planet.

I'll post some interiors and sketches later on...

Thanks to the guys at Edge for giving me such a fun project to work on!

Avast ye scurvy sea dogs! A fun children's activity book I illustrated back in January has finally set sail! Now I am a Pirate helps your little scallywags talk, dress and eat like a real sea faring pirate! As a life long fanatic of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride, this was a perfect project!

It's available on Amazon in the UK and the US (and many other places).

Get yer land-lubbing hands on a copy before you end up in Davy Jones' Locker!

Um, yarrrr.

Pick up this month's Empire Magazine for some brand new Blecha artwork. I was super thrilled to get an email from the art editor to design a mad scientist type for a article about bad science in movies. Empire is my favorite magazine so it was quite the privilege! The scientist slowly becomes more and more enraged as he presents movies that are the worst offenders against the laws of science!