Architecture study with a shitty background thrown over top of it.

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #07

1) Furniture has been added - BG and FG elements.
2) The run cycle has not yet been tweeked.
3) Scene shrunken down to make for better framing.

Thanks again for all the great critiques guys!

Crsp, yours especially for the tip on framing Up Chuk differentely (since his head was getting cut off). It made a HUGE difference to shrink him down and now it seriously looks 100000% better!!

This is why all of your critiques are so important, you guys catch stuff that totally slip right by me. Now my pilot will be that much better thanks to all of you!

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #06

This is how Up Chuk feels about the painfully slow process of traditional animation.

Something is going down in Up Chuk's living room. He runs to investigate. The idea here is that Up Chuk is running through his house, jumping, and then sliding into his living room:
The critiques all of you gave me for this initial run cycle really helped! I wanted to thank all of you again and encourage you guys to never be shy about critiquing these animated clips.

I will continue to post this same sequence in stages of progression, until it's final finished state. That way you can sort of see my process.

PS. this is not the only work that I have done since the last run cycle post. So don't worry ;)

he really does want one, folks.

Bad haircuts suck

cartoon studies

Let's have a curve party!

Inspired by Robert Crumb's "Stoned Agin!"

some progress pics:

sneering manwoman

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #05

Rough run cycle.

PILOT IS BACK IN FULL EFFEKT

My pilot is now back in action because my temporary animation gig is now at an END.. here are some doodles from the job:








The project was called "Sing & Read" and is being released by Leap Frog. If you have kids (4 and under) pick this DVD up for them, it is actually VERY cool for an educational kids cartoon! Give it around 3 months to appear in stores.

Hollytrip 2nite

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #04


In-between frame from a heavily animated sequence of 45 consecutive drawings (24 fps).

Up Chuk goes on a road trip.
Here is a small clip from a scene out of the animatic.

This is, of course, all a matter of opinion..


..but just between you and I, I prefer Up Chuk's opinion. :)

Hahaha ok. So I guess we all know what you've gotta do to comment on an animation DVD set.........

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #03

In-between frame from animated sequence

sloppy. shitty. horrible. you name it.



as you can see i REALLY struggle with hair. i just don't understand it (not sure if i ever will). is there some sort of formula..?


this is the first time that i've actually sat down to draw in over 2 months, please excuse the crappiness.

Here is a cartoon that I, Mike Nassar, Chris Allison, David Gemmill, John Martinez and Aaron Schlicting made. It's a little late for the holiday but oh well.

Happy Holidays

Up Chuk Duck (Pilot)
progress post #01

storyboard

layout

girl practice & studies

these are old and have nothing to do with the pilot

It's in the works..

**update**

another thing is that I am debating cleaning any of it up (so the lines will look all ugly & jagged). what ive got so far isnt cleaned up, but colored. i'll have to post some screenshots of the colored but non-cleaned up scenes & you guys can be the judge.

but then i started fucking up. angles werent right, i had to keep redrawing shit. and it was because i didnt have a storyboard or solid foundation of each scene.

This is one of the backgrounds I had to throw out because I drew it at the wrong angle.

I'm going camping and will be back on the 25th. See you then!

Here are some Barney Bear studies. I was able to obtain the reference material thanks to Kevin Langley's awesome Cartoon & Model Sheets blog.

I drew this one the next day at work, this time without any reference. I was pretty pleased that I was able to do it from memory.