Next up in our series interviewing the Sundance animators we have a conversation with Jesse Moynihan of the short Jesus 2.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I just started putting all my film ideas into comics and applying for grants and stuff like that. And I started self publishing and going around to comic conventions and selling my comics\u2026 And then Penn Ward, who created the show Adventure Time,<\/em> found my comics at a convention\u2026 and a couple months later, he offered me a job because that was the, around the end of the first season of Adventure Time\u2026 <\/em>My career has been animation since then. And I worked on Adventure Time<\/em> for, like, seven years.<\/p>\n Why don\u2019t you tell the readers a little bit about the short?<\/strong><\/p>\n The short is called Jesus 2<\/em>\u2026 it\u2019s a counterargument to myself, to my\u00a0 own anxiety and fear. I made this story about this Messiah who flies around on a black comet. And these black comets or black orbs are like a big, major motif in my work. And he flies around on the black orb and he sprays this, like, goo all over the universe. And when the people absorb the goo, they can\u2019t die. And so it\u2019s been thousands of years of no one dying. And it\u2019s sort of, everyone\u2019s dealing with their immortality in different ways.<\/p>\n \u2026And some people are fighting to kill, that want to kill this creature named Jesus 2<\/em>, in order to restore mortality to the, you know. And so that\u2019s what these two brothers are trying to do. And they\u2019re communing with, like, angels and stuff like that in order to get power to destroy Jesus.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rotoscopers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/jesse-300x300.jpg\")
We\u2019d like to give you a chance to introduce yourself, and tell us a little bit of how you got started in animating?<\/strong><\/p>\n