Thursday, August 1, 2013

Tombstone Warm Ups - August 2013 update

What's this?  The first post in months?  And with an actual fresh drawing?  Yeah yeah I know.  Hey, it happens.  First I was actually doing animation for something that I can't show anyone yet, BUT I did learn how to use Toon Boom Harmony to do traditional animation.  Then/now I'm working on a new show that hasn't aired yet so I can't show anything from that. BUT I learned a good way to animate traditionally in Photoshop.  Both are great projects that I'm excited to see come to fruition.

I'm also fielding some Q & A stuff over at Animator Island.  Check out the initial post at  http://www.animatorisland.com/animator-qa-ask-now/ . So when I actually have time to just Draw for Drawing's sake, I've been working on finishing up a small comic I'm doing and that's the backgrounds.  Even though I'm enjoying doing the backgrounds - I found a cool retro style that I really like - I am really jonesing DRAWING.  So last night after working on both of those, I had some time left before bedtime but I couldn't think of something so I pulled up stuff on youtube and found Tombstone.

I did a warm up drawing of the two guys shaking hands (at bottom).  Then I wanted to do a fun character face and exaggerate it.  Not really caricature, but just have fun.  So I snapped the pic of Kurt Russell and his mustache and had at it


I started with just some basics to get the cobwebs out.

Then I threw a blue sketch layer over it and did some cleaner work on it.  Again I wasn't trying to reproduce the photo, just let my eye tell my hand what's going on and to HAVE FUN.


Here's one of the backgrounds (or BGs as we call them) from the short comic I'm doing.  You can see why it' taking a while.  I HAD to set it in a comic book shop.  Those of you Burbank locals might recognize the place a little.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Another Double Header of The Ninja! TONIGHT!

TONIGHT! Monday, March 25


Original Series - Episode Premiere. Another NEW episode!!

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

"Der Monster Klub/Grave Puncher: The Movie!"

Both episodes directed by Good ol' me

... (7:00 PM - 7:30 PM ET/PT)

"Der Monster Klub" - When Randy and Howard are forced to share a lunch table with the outcast group -Der Monster Klub,' they realize these oddballs are playing a dangerous game that could destroy the whole school.

"Grave Puncher: The Movie!" - During the premiere a new 6D film, the movie's title character comes to life and threatens to destroy Norrisville.

TV-Y7-FV

Monday, March 4, 2013

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: New 2013 Episodes!

It's a Taback double feature tonight.  Both of the episodes are ones I directed! 

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja "Stank'd to the Future/Wave Slayers"
(7:00 PM - 7:30 PM ET/PT)


"Stank'd to the Future" - When Dickie, a frozen student from the 1980s is turned into a crazy monster by the Sorcerer, Randy and Howard must reunite Dickie with his lost love, Ms. Ringwald, before the school is destroyed.
Guest Starring Bobcat Goldthwait as Dickie and Annie Potts as Ms. Ringwald.


"Wave Slayers" - Randy and Howard join their school's "Wave Slayer" team but as jet ski waxers. When Randy accidently damages the jet ski belonging to the team captain, Buttermaker, moments before their biggest race, he and Howard must step up and find a way to save the race.
Guest Starring Sterling Knight as Buttermaker.
TV-Y7-FV



Thursday, February 7, 2013

FEET IN ANIMATION - Part 2

Part 2 of FEET IN ANIMATION is posted over at Animator Island.

From my last post:

JK Riki over at ANIMATOR ISLAND posted part 1 of a Drawniversity Lesson I did on cartoon characters' feet placement.  The question was posed by a reader:
"How do you decide which way a character's feet should face?  Is it just a stylistic choice or does it in some way help the process or convey something in the character performance?"
The question referenced some Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny stills where his feet were pointing in very opposite directions compared to facing forward.  This plus a few drawing tips on BALANCE can be found in Part 1 over at  www.animatorisland.com.  Part 2 will be up next week and soon after that the whole lesson will be in one post over at the Drawniversity Blog, along with the other sample lessons.

Part 1  ~~~~  Part 2 



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Monday, January 28, 2013

FEET IN ANIMATION – PART 1

Hey Guys,

JK Riki over at ANIMATOR ISLAND posted part 1 of a Drawniversity Lesson I did on cartoon characters' feet placement.  The question was posed by a reader:
"How do you decide which way a character's feet should face?  Is it just a stylistic choice or does it in some way help the process or convey something in the character performance?"
The question referenced some Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny stills where his feet were pointing in very opposite directions compared to facing forward.  This plus a few drawing tips on BALANCE can be found in Part 1 over at  www.animatorisland.com.  Part 2 will be up next week and soon after that the whole lesson will be in one post over at the Drawniversity Blog, along with the other sample lessons.


LINKS