You know the drill...

Starting to try some new idears.


- Chris

Fun With Ink

Had a lot of fun with ink and watercolor this last week. great learning experiences acquired and fun comics created.



xoxo,
mike

Live Action!

Working on my first LIVE ACTION project! Super excited about it. I'm working on it with mastermind James Martinez. I bet it's pretty unorthodox, but James suggested that we work from animatic (which I'm only all too happy to do, since that's what I'm familar with.









I want to do it really stylized, and I've got some wild lighting ideas (mostly stolen from Creepshow (so pulp comics) and Argento). I'm not sure what's gonna be possible for us, but I'm sure whatever we finally come out with will still be hilarious!

- Live Chris

The Mustache Teaser.

Slick production still from Ryan Kramer's new film. Man, you guys are gonna LOVE this one hahaha. Shame all we can do for the time being is tease tease tease....



- Chris

Teaser.

Quick scan. Trying to ink 14 comics this week. CAN HE DO IT FOLKS?! Toon in later this week and watch what it's like for quality to SUFFFFFER *spitting on the hard fff sound*

- Chris

Prelim Designs....

Prelim design work for a cartoon I'm currently "writing" (hehe, is that cynical?). I'm trying to make SUPER SIMPLE, appealing character designs so they'll be easy to animate. If I strip off the superfluous details and stuff, I'll feel more comfortable pushing the animation as far as possible without lots of headaches over cleanup and such.

The character was gonna be a preacher but I think I'm going to make him a door to door salesman. The lightbulb shape should be easy to work with. I think the other primary character will be a little more tricky to design, but hopefully I can keep this level of simplicity.

Why am I writing more cartoons when I have a two 3 minute cartoons and a 7 minute cartoon to finish? *Sigh* Back to the drawing table...

- Crazy Chris

Tease tease tease...

Less words, more pictures




And a pencil sketch for an ink piece I'd like to do soon for practice.


- Middle-of-the-Week Chris

Pencils.

More comic teasers.





Gotta find some time to do some inks. Probably not anytime soon, trying to juggle all this film stuff.

- Chris

Poo poo pee doo.

The roots of my immaturity can be clearly traced back to Betty Boop. Anyhoo, working on layouts for the next cartoon. I'm working right over the animatic (which you can see really faintly on the bøttom). Those are super loose drawings, and now I'm tightening them up (perspective grid and all) so I can get them into photoshop to do clean inks. Then I run them through to mill to color them with textures and the whole nine yards. God bless America.



Getting excited and trying to keep my nose to the grindstone. I think we'll launch for the new year. Then you can really confirm what a waste of time my life has been haha

- Full-Steam-Ahead Chris