commercial Animation II

I put together a couple backgrounds for the oxygen commercial and placed a sketch of the character against them to see how they would look.

Commercial Animation

I had an idea for a fake commercial, and threw together a quick video with scribbles that took about 5 minutes to draw and audio that took about as long to record & mix.



Here is a more refined character design, kinda going for the early tv animated commercial look.

Eagle

this project was a request, my aunt wanted me to paint a wooden eagle my grandfather got my grandmother for christmas, and she wanted it done by memorial day.

Closin' in....

With a bit of free time on my hands, I finally am getting close to finishing an animated project that i started dec. 17th 2006.
It isn't that it was difficult, that it took time, or that it is a long project, it's just that i always have so many other more important things to do- like work, eat, sleep...and other projects i get involved in.

I have more than 2/3 of the thing inked now, and am still animating the other 1/3. Of the 2/3 i have inked, I have scanned in about 100 frames at 1180/880 pixel resolution, and 15 of those have been colored, textured, and placed against the background painting for a final framing.
The parts I haven't finished animated yet are 2 short opening and closing shots, and a close-up of the squirrel screaming in surprise and holding his face. Here are a couple of un-cropped frames from the close-up:

bugged out.

I did another small sculpture, this time of the daughter louse character.

Sugar and Spice and everything.... Lice?

After a bit of a struggle, I think I've hit upon a design for the daughter that I like. My first designs seemed too old, and I wanted the character to seem like a tween-ager, not a 20-something.


Here are some throw-away gags I want to put into the cartoon- The lice see "deer ticks" on their camping trip:

and for no real reason, here is the back of poppa louse's head.

Poppa Louse (enlarged to show detail)

I made a 3-d version of the headlouse character design to help me visualize him more fully, and get the tricky perspectives and camera angles right. The pose I selected was based on this sketch of the character.

I made the head, body, and arms as separate pieces for a couple reasons: first, so I could sculpt it more easily, without the clay all mushing together as I worked on details; and second, so that I could move them around afterwards as drawing references.


While the clay cooked, I figured out a basic color scheme using the sketch on which I based the pose in the model.


Then I mixed paints and proceeded to apply color to the finished sculpture.

blending with surroundings

a little part of some experiments i am working on with character and background environmental integration/blending.

Camping With Pop

I have been mulling over an idea for a rather bizarre concept for a future cartoon I plan to draw.

It is the story of a father and daughter on a camping trip.

"how is that BIZARRE????" you may be asking.

Okay, maybe that concept sounds a little pedestrian...but here's the hook: the main characters are headlice.

"Gross!!!" you say.

and you're right. it's revolting. but i really don't care what you think. I think the subject is full of comic possibilities. in fact I'm certain. I filled three pages with ideas for jokes, gags, story ideas, etc. (while I was working- as the ideas came, I scribbled them on a piece of scrap paper and pocketed it and resumed working)

Then i began quickly scribbling out ideas for character design for the two leads. These were done quickly (since my job requires efficiency and speed, I had to draw these in as little time as possible so i could get back to work) and they were mostly drawn rather small.

I have photoshopped the various scraps of paper into two large collages here, one for the father (who is closer to a final design)


and the daughter (who i haven't really worked very hard on yet).



Here is a comparison to give you an idea how small I drew these.
sometime later I may post more of my ideas for this cartoon, but just in case you totally hated the whole concept, here are a couple completely unrelated things i did recently:

a chicken i drew today at work during our monthly shift meeting,


and a bunny i drew on a plastic fork with two marks-a-lot pens.