A sampling of pages from our free digital download, the digital comic "Combination Platter," a 72 page opus of Manny Galan's greatest hits. Download it here and drop it in iTunes to read it on an iPad, or just read it in your browser. Just read it!

One of our favorite projects was "Trix Toons." Three webisodes, each were 7 minutes or so in length. You could only get to see them using a "secret password from cups" of Trix Yogurt. The shorts were directed by Wayne Brejcha, and Executive Produced by Sean Henry at Calabash Animation. (The shorts won a 2 Silver Telly Awards for the animation team). We (Pat Giles and Manny Galan) Creative Directed the TV spot, the shorts, designed the cast, and co-wrote the shorts with Adam Kline, Matt Gellert and Phoebe Dick. We ended up doing comic books, too (that were so small you could fit them in the yogurt package). Grammy-Winning composer Jeff Elmassian and his production company Endless Noise were brought in to compose the score. Legendary animation director Mike Patterson (A-Ha's "Take on Me" video among his many live action animation credits) directed the TV spot, and "Watchmen" Cinematographer Larry Fong shot the live action spot. Northern Lights produced the post and effects in conjunction with Calabash Animation. Enjoy!

We hit Geek Nirvana by working with Mad Magazine legend Sergio Aragones on a series GoGurt commercials.

We Creative Directed these spots, featuring original boards (Sailboat) and designs (Airplane) by everyone's favorite MAD artist, Sergio Aragones.

Credits:

The Creative and Production team from Saatchi & Saatchi:

Director: Mike Foran

Art Director/storyboards: Justin Roth

Copywriter: Adam Kline

Animation: Miguel Martinez-Joffre, Mike Ricca

Producer: John Catapano

Production Manager: Sandra Levin

Music: Big Yellow Duck/Stuart Kollmorgen

Manny Galan, Sergio Aragones, and Pat Giles at Sergio's favorite Chinese Food place somewhere in Los Angeles. We were too giddy to remember the name.

Pat-Man Studios is founded by Pat Giles and Manny Galan. Both have a long career in building content for kids, in animation, comic books, toys, video games, and more, for the biggest brands and companies in the world.

Welcome to our new blog, announcing our new name, and kicking off what we hope will be an exciting year. We had a very exciting first year in business, as Pannylunie. We are renaming because our third partner Lisa Clunie joined Ogilvy. (Amazing opportunity, we are pretty happy for her.) We still have our fantastic clients, Saatchi & Saatchi, General Mills, National Crime Prevention Council, and a few big announcements on the horizon.

It's been a liberating stretch of creative output in our first year. Cartoon Lagoon is our first big independent long form production, check out some behind the scenes of the work in progress. Dober-Man and Pigeon is a comic and short we're working on. And there are a couple of big TV projects that we hope to get moving in 2012.

Let's launch the blog with some reels of our past work. First, here is our general reel:

Here is a greatest hits reel of Nick Shorts written, creative directed and in some cases, performed by Manny Galan.

Here is a reel of merchandise designed by Galan and Giles over the years.

Here is our commercial reel. We are proud of several notable appearances by young actors who went on to great success on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. We've also had the pleasure of working with Oscar-nominated animators, and Oscar-winning Directors and Cinematographers for some very big brands.

Here is our digital reel.

Here is our reel of Comics and Children's Books:

Here is a reel of our Character Designs. Galan and Giles designed hundreds of characters that have appeared in animated series and shorts, including Stanley, Disney's Doug, PB&J Otter, MTV's Daria, Bronk and Bongo, and many Nick Shorts. Here is a sampling.

Here is a reel of our logo designs for animated shows, brands and networks.

And finally, here is a reel of On-Air Bumpers Galan creative directed for Nickelodeon.