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I’m Justin. Fat Friend Films are family-friendly short films made by me. Well, one man and two cats, and I have a wife and daughter around here somewhere

Sometimes I work with voice actors or a composer, but otherwise this is a one-man animation studio! Shells
Kickstarting soon! Pound for Pound
Two Shakespeare street-performers clash in a turf battle riddled with puns and slapstick, breathing new life into lofty verse. Winner of Best Short Film at the Academy of Art Spring Show 2012, an official selection at Sacramento Film & Music, Atlanta Shortsf

est, Tacoma, Anchorage Int'l, and WorldKids Int'l film festivals, and featured in the August 2012 issue of the Korean magazine 3d Artisan.

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My name is Justin Pixler, I'm an animator. Fat Friend Films are family-friendly short films made by me. Sometimes I work with voice actors or a composer, but otherwise this is a one-man animation studio! Well, one man and two cats, and I have a wife and daughter somewhere around here too.

"Fat Friend" is an homage to one of my dearest friends, our cat named Hobbes (whom my sister-in-law affectionately called "Fat Friend"). He's that big brown cat you see in the logo, although in reality his tabby fur was beautifully intricate. Hobbes was always close-by when I was animating my thesis short Pound for Pound (2012), either in my lap or sitting on my desk watching me work. He was a sweet prince of a cat, and he left us too soon, Fat Friend Films is my way of remembering him. The meow you hear during the intro to my shorts is a genuine Hobbsie meow.

Fat Friend Films jr is something my wife and I came up with for Are You a Carrot? (2018) The little white and grey cat is my first cat, Joplin. He was actually Hobbes older brother, and lived a long, full cat-life, so it's maybe ironic that he would be depicted as the younger cat. Joplin was my cat, as shy and moody as he was loyal. If I had a patronus (daemon, chala, familiar, spirit animal, etc.) it was Joplin. The paw-print in the Fat Friend Films jr logo is a stamp of Joplin's actual paw-print.

We still have two cats, a big grey tabby named Buddy and a small tuxedo cat named Penny. If you'd like to know more about them, drop me an email! Maybe we can talk over coffee?