#jay lender

Jay Lender (Nickelodeon Animation Studios "Spongebob Squarepants" franchise) surprises us with this cute "There's No Platypus Controlling Me"

Lender remembers his time on the original run of "Phineas And Ferb"

Dan Povenmire, Jay Lender - Camp Fire Song Song

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26 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓼 𝓐𝓰𝓸 𝓣𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓢𝓺𝓾𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓟𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓔𝓹𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓭𝓮 𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮’𝓼 𝓓𝓪𝔂 𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓞𝓷 𝓝𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓸𝓷!!

𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒱𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑒’𝓈 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒!!

So, uh, THIS was originally going to be in “Reef Blower”, or, as it was originally called, “Pilot Extension”.

It's over 90 degrees here in Southern California this weekend, the perfect moment to post some refreshing beach scenes from a few of the promotional 2D shorts I directed for Minions: The Rise of Gru, out July 1!

I got to do a range of really cool projects at Illumination, between co-directing a theme park ride (something I'd never imagined), directing international commercials and doing a ton of these 2D Minions shorts, where you're executing one central gag, a 'classic' format I love. I think we made close to 25 of these--I lost count!

The shorts that were released here in the US didn't include the title cards, so I wanted to share of few of them here. For many of these, I drew the layout with Tidawan and Sophie Crowley, both hugely talented, doing the final color.

Most of them were made back in 2018 in preparation for the Minions: the Rise of Gru release, originally slated for...2020. They were mostly for the Chinese territories, specifically their Migu Internet Cafes, but were later repurposed for the Illumination YouTube channel, where you can watch almost all of the shorts. Some are still to be released.

And because many of the shorts don't have credits, I want to list them here.

BEACH BALL, Written and storyboarded by Tom King. Backgrounds by Sophie Crowley and me. Title-card by Sophie Crowley and me

CASTAWAY 1, Written by Derek Drymon and me. Storyboard by Jay Lender and me. Backgrounds by Tidawan T. Title-card by Tidawan T and me.