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.