Nick Cross’ Passion For Persephone
John K, the creator of the ‘Ren & Stimpy,’ called 
Nick Cross “my genius find here up north,” in a 2003 AWN interview. Nick, who lives in Ottawa, worked with John on Ren & Stimpy ‘Adult Party Cartoon,’ on which he served up storyboards, layouts, background and character designs. Since then, Nick has set out to create his own animated classic, a short called ‘The Waif of Persephone,’ which has received attention over at both Drawn! and Cartoon Brew.
Nick’s animation process has been well catalogued on his Plog (production blog). He performs digital clean-up on pencil sketches, and then assembles his shots in Flash. It’s a painstaking method that offers up fantastic results. Nick has been bleeding out short clips of his film, and I recommend having a look at releases from last year, this March and June.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Nick Cross is a god damned genius and don’t none of you ever forget about it!
No, seriously, he’s really really good.
July 14th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
I used to have a Calcomp graphics tablet and ended up selling it. I bought a Wacom 4×5 and sold it. I’m just going to stick with bitmap to vector using Freehand. Too bad you have to use Illustrator to get “LiveTrace”. Adobe would make a killing if they sold “LiveTrace” separately. Glad to see someone using paper/pencil/scanner/Streamline.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Mark Said it….Nick Cross IS a god damned genius and don’t none of you ever forget about it!
For-real-doh!
oh Word!
July 15th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Gosh, what a surprise!!
Thanks Aaron! (And Mark & ‘Hobo’)
July 15th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Awsome! Whicked! Cool! Nick is a Gdamn genius!
July 16th, 2006 at 4:02 am
Nick Kross for Prime Minister! He promises a Tofurkey in every home while he serves up some fiiiiine animation!