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		<title>2 Box Tops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] More Box Tops! I was the 3D Artist &#038; Animator on this one, once again! Pixel Farm Credits Director Tony Mills Designers Alicia Reece Robert Mostoller 3D Artist + Animator + Compositor Joe Russo Additional FX Simulation R&#038;D Matt Pearson Sound Designers Ken Chastain Jesse Marks]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/2/box-tops-for-education-2-box-tops</link>
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		<title>31st World Wide SketchCrawl &#8211; Minneapolis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drawings from Saturday&#8217;s SketchCrawl event. It was freezing outside, so 3 of us huddled up inside a coffee shop downtown. Go Minneapolis springtime! Read more about the sketchcrawl event here: http://sketchcrawl.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/5/31st-world-wide-sketchcrawl-minneapolis</link>
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		<title>Kentucky Lottery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teaser &#8211; 15s [See post to watch Flash video] Launch &#8211; 30s [See post to watch Flash video] Here are two spots we completed for Kentucky Lottery in early January. In addition to the digital animation treatment, we also used a practical puppet rig for the dollars to achieve a more organic visual look. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/2/kentucky-lottery</link>
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		<title>General Mills &#8211; Box Tops For Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Here&#8217;s a 15 second spot we created at Pixel Farm for General Mills&#8217; Box Tops For Education program. Tony Mills (Inferno Artist) Wrote, Designed, and Directed, with myself as the 3D Artist &#038; Animator. If you&#8217;re a box tops contributor, this one&#8217;s for you! And for you animation savvy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2011/2/general-mills-box-tops-for-education</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest Season 4 Creature FX Reel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Remember all of those MonsterQuest videos I posted a while back? Well now it&#8217;s all in one tidy package. This is basically everything I&#8217;ve already posted with a few more shots from the show, but condensed into a short edit. Here&#8217;s a quick recap of this project: At Pixel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/monsterquest-season-4-creature-fx-reel</link>
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		<title>Russo Family Reunion 2010 Photos!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoa! I haven&#8217;t posted something like this ever! But it has a certain artistic value to it&#8230; photography rather than 3d stuff. These are pictures I took while attending The Russo Family Reunion held in Deerfield Massachusetts, October 8th -11th 2010. I used my Droid Eric HTC Phone and messed around with the infamous FXcamera [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/6/russo-family-reunion-2010-photos</link>
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		<title>Abstract Design Sketches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A series of sketches I did a while ago that I hope to turn into an illustrative motion piece. My inspiration for this was to focus on composition within a frame and to see what type of shapes are interesting. Also, I&#8217;ve been pushing myself to experiment with different styles in an effort to keep [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/5/abstract-design-sketches</link>
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		<title>Shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added a shop section to sell 3d models I&#8217;ve created and will be creating. You can purchase them from TurboSquid.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/9/shop</link>
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		<title>Twins Baseball Stadium Graphics &#8211; Pre-Game Spot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] 3 weeks before the opening game and we need an animation that not only brands Pixel Farm but shows the relationship between Pixel Farm and the Twins. Can we do it? YES! And we did, and this is what is the result from those 3 weeks of quick milestone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/twins-baseball-stadium-graphics-pre-game-spot</link>
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		<title>Twins Baseball Stadium Graphics &#8211; Home Run</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] At Pixel Farm, we recently completed the in-game graphics for the Twins&#8217; new baseball stadium (Target Field). Since I was working on MonsterQuest as this project was in production, I only had a chance to work on one of several animations: the homerun situational graphic. I worked on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/twins-baseball-stadium-graphics-homerun</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest &#8211; Sierra Sasquatch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Holodeck creature animation for MonsterQuest. The final animation I worked on for the show. I reused &#038; altered the sasquatch I created for the first episode, and added a younger version. Pixel Farm Credits 3D Character Artist + Animator + Lighting Artist + Compositor Joe Russo 3D Environment Artists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/monsterquest-sierra-sasquatch</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest &#8211; America&#8217;s Wolfman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Holodeck creature animation for MonsterQuest. Pixel Farm Credits 3D Character Artists Jim Van Den Bogart Matt Pearson 3D Character Rigging Artist + Character FX Artist (Fur) Joe Russo Animator + 3D Environment Artist Amanda Nelson Lighting Artists + Compositors Amanda Nelson Joe Russo]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/monsterquest-americas-wolfman</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest &#8211; Lizard Monster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Holodeck creature animation for MonsterQuest. Pixel Farm Credits 3D Character Artist Billy Thiex 3D Character Rigging Artist + CG Environment Artist + FX Artist (Smoke) + Animator + Lighting Artist + Compositor Joe Russo]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/monsterquest-lizard-monster</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest &#8211; Mothman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] Another holodeck creature animation for MonsterQuest. Pixel Farm Credits 3D Character Artist Jim Van Den Bogart 3D Character Rigging Artist + Character FX Artist (Fur &#038; Dynamic Wings) + 3D Environment Artist + Animator + Lighting Artist + Compositor Joe Russo]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joerusso3d.com/2010/2/monsterquest-mothman</link>
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		<title>MonsterQuest &#8211; HillBilly Beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video] We wrapped up production for The History Channel&#8217;s MonsterQuest TV series recently at Pixel Farm, creating cg elements for 9 episodes over a course of 5 months, starting back in October 2009. It was around 30 seconds &#8211; 1 minute of animation per episode, depending on the content of [...]]]></description>
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