Friday, July 18, 2008

Finished Manx layouts


These are finished layout poses from the cartoon "A Little Fairy Tail", and to make them extra special, I colored them in for you.

These are from the scene where Manx lays eyes on Twinklebelly for the first time.





BTW, you may have noticed the rectangular nature of these pictures. That's because the cartoon's gonna be shot in the 16:9 aspect ratio. Cinematic, baby!

UPDATE:

This next layout drawing is the one I'm most proud of. Mainly because it is a collaborative effort between me and Booo Tooon Marooon Matthew Nunnery. This is a gag from a scene where Itchy decides to ask Twink out, but he's nervous so gets the farts.

Manx, being the encouraging big brother that he is, decides to help Itchy by pulling his colon out and playing it like a bagpipe to get the farts out.

This is a gag Matthew and I dreamed up while on the phone. He was doodling the whole time, and then emailed me what he drew. This is it:



He didn't like the head he drew of Manx, and asked me to draw a better one where his mouth was open. I took it and drew what I thought it should look like, including a number of other changes.

Shortly after the drawing was done, we realized we hadn't decided definitively what the characters' colors were gonna be, so Matthew and I sat down and picked the schemes on the mice. Then Matthew painted my interpretation, and here's the result:



Matthew is a great artist who doesn't post enough. You can see his art, tattoo designs, and animations in motion and for sale, at his website. He's also an amazingly talented musician. You can hear his music at the site too.

MGNUNNERY.COM

Check it out, be amazed, then come back here and tell him you want to see more of his awesome art here on the Blooog.

- trevor.

Monday, July 14, 2008

I done a bad drawing!


Actual size....

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Behind the scenes...

Friday, July 4, 2008

Storyboard


Okay, the following is the begining of a storyboard I created for George. I would put up the rest, but my scanner's acting funky.
I also stole old Spumco storyboard sheets to do it.







Also, here's a few tries at getting George right. Some drawings I made up, others I copied. For example, Rex Hackleberg's awesome storyboard sketches at the bottom.








- trevor.

Get A Job!



So, being that the economy's in the shitter and business owners are now less concerned with honoring loyal, hard working people than they are with inflating the next quarterly dividend, all three of the Booo Tooon Marooons ( Trevor, Matthew and Janine ) are now officially out of work.

Chances are you probably are too, and if not, may soon be.

So in an effort to boost morale and inspire the masses, here is Brad Caslor's 1985 industrial film "Get A Job!"

It is a how-to film lovingly reminiscent of Clampett and Scribner's cartoony 40's execution.

Enjoy!