Ben Balistreri

It was a period of great boredom. The Wander Over Yonder Crew,  having one of several extended lunches,  discussed ideal cross-overs for their beloved orange hairy spoon. During the...

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Woah!  It's been almost a year since I posted on my blog!  Well if there's anyone left checking it out here's some concepts and designs I drew of a character in the newest episode of Wander Ove...

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Hopefully you guys aren't sick of Seaweed and the Devil's Cookbook updates yet.  Had to go back to work but I'm still cranking on the book.  Right now I'm on schedule to have it ready for Comic...

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To find the Devil's Cookbook Seaweed must make his way through THE SEA SERPENT FOREST!!! This is gonna be a gigantic drawing when I do the final inked version and will be the only full 2 page spr...

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Here's a finished panel from "Seaweed and the Devil's Cookbook".  Workin' on the book full time right now and having a blast!

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Here's my second and final student film I made back in 1997 at Cal Arts.

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Wanna see my Freshmen year student film from when I was at Cal Arts back in 1996?  check out the K-9 500!

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My arm is sore as hell after inking this puppy!

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Now that I'm on sabbatical from work I'm workin' hard and having fun on "Seaweed and the Devil's Cookbook"! Here's a pencil version of a splash page I'm about to start inking.

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I've got 1 week left at work till I get my 2 and a half month sabbatical to finish "Seaweed and the Devil's Cookbook"!!! Can't wait! Here's a blue line and inked page to show some of what you can...

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About 2 years ago I spent a couple weeks doing some work for the Monsters vs Aliens TV show that recently aired on Nickelodeon. Here's a few of the concepts:

http://benbalistreri.blogspot.com/2013/03/monsters-vs-aliens-tv-show.html

Here's an inked Guinea Pig from my upcoming book "Seaweed and the Devil's Cookbook". I'm taking 2 months off from work starting this May to finish it up!!!

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My New Years resolution is to finally finish the conclusion to Seaweed and The Cure For Mildew. Working at DreamWorks while trying to finish the book has been impossible so I'm hoping to take a c...

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Here's my favorite character from the Hobbit!

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DreamWorks Vis Dev stud and painter to the stars, Devin Crane finally has a blog so we can all gaze at his marvelous artwork! He's got loads of visual development from his 10+ years at DreamWor...

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I've posted photos of my studio before but I was trying out the new panoramic feature on my iphone and thought I'd share this view of my nerd cave!

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Any of you who are interested in becoming a story artist need to go check out the brilliant work of Darren Webb. D Webb is one of those guys who gets to go on movies at the first stages cause h...

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Here's a piece I did for a fundraiser for the Wildlife Learning Center in Sylmar, CA. Gouache and Ink. Here's the link to the Event: WILDLIFE LEARNING CENTER

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Here's a piece I did for the "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" 20th anniversary group exhibition at the Copro Gallery-Bergamont Station in Santa Monica. The piece is titled "Bob on Formica" and i...

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Owl studies for a Twin Peaks painting I'm working on:

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Growing up I always dreamed of being a Marvel Comics artist. Mark Gruenwald, (one time editor in chief of Marvel) was a student of my Dad's at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and that gave m...

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Here's a sequence I wrote, (along with John Puglisi) and boarded for the "Legend of the Boneknapper" DVD. Gobber is telling a tall tale to the kids about one of his encounters with the Boneknappe...

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