I love this guy!

I love the BAR FLY character! These are just some locations of the interior of the bar. It looks empty right now, but the club and the seats will eventually be filled audience characters.

what's with the hair in this town?

Wouldn't be a French Canadian if he didn't have a MULLET.

Another caricature

Caricatures are not supposed to be flattering. They are supposed to be funny. I actually like this how this one turned out, even though it may not be flattering, it is still appealing. I used to watch YARDLEY JONES on TV, that must have been more than 16 years ago. He taught how to paint and caricature and draw on his show, this was way before the day of digital media, he used good old fashioned water color, paper, ink, pen, and marker. He had this great method of painting his caricatures; he would ink the caricature on a sheet of acetate, much like an animation cel, then he would loosely water color the caricature on water color paper. He would then place the cel over the water color, once it has dried of course, and voila! A caricature in color with a nice black thick clean outline. I was very impressed by this. So essentially that is the look I am going for here with the painted look with a solid black outline, only I did it digitally.

Oliver Domenchini

This character design is a based on a friend of mine, Oliver Domenchini. He is an animator at Oasis. Within hours of emailing this design to the studio, I got a call from the producer asking "The Assistant character looks like Oliver? Is it Oliver?" I had to laugh. I don't think anyone at the studio, including Oliver were expecting him to pop up as a character. Lots of cheats in this rotation too, especially in the arms. He is never going to rotate on the spot holding a cable like this, so it doesn't matter.

forest path

It's a very rough thumbnail, but I think you can make out the rock path and the bits of orange/red along the path are leaves on the ground. I am loving COREL PAINTER!

Painter experiment

I'm experimenting with painter. This is a path through a wooded area of the Wellesley College campus. It's just a little painted thumbnail, no details or refined areas, just playing with color and composition.

Andre - caricature 1

In the end I did all 7 caricatures in 2 styles; the graphic style below, and the more painted style above. I definitely prefer the style above.
I had to do 7 caricatures. My original plan was to do them all in a clean, simple, graphic style like the image above. It was the fastest way to go, and I didn't have a lot of time.

Here's the rough of this caricature. I did about a dozen of them before I settled on this one.

Happy and Angry lips

Some people designate their lip assignments as HAPPY LIPS A to H, and ANGRY LIPS A to H. I prefer to call the angry set by a double letter; for instance if angry mouth E is needed I would call it EE, not ANGRY E.

waitress lip sync

waitress

You've seen the homely girl design a few posts below; now here's the hot blond bimbo design. Apparently there are lots of dumb blond jokes in this series.

expression sheet

To help the animators I did a page of facial expressions and rough poses of Ginette sitting. I was told it helped them a lot.

gimme a spin

I made one change to her; I gave her a shorter skirt.

the entrance

Here are the characters you've seen thus far in a mock scenario. I kept the BGs as simple as possible. I used rejected designs in the photo frames on the location design on the walls of the club. Hey, why let rejected designs go to waste?

rejected goth

I was told to design an ugly, depressing, miserable, lonely girl. So I came up with this goth chick on the left. They didn't want her to be a goth, so she was rejected. Then they said that she wasn't supposed to be necessarily UGLY, just desperately in love with the main character, but kinda homely. So I designed the frumpy chick in the middle here. She was also rejected. They wanted her to be older, a cougar. So I came up with the design on the right. They liked that one, but I would have preferred the design in the middle as the main character. We did use all the 3 designs. The 2 rejected characters were used as incidental characters.

a little moustache action

Another lip sync. This is the 4th production that I did lip syncs on, and on 3 of those 4 I was the only one doing lip syncs. On DAFT PLANET, ZANNI, and STAND UP TV, I created all the lips by myself, and on MY GOLDFISH IS EVIL, I was on a team of 3 guys creating lip syncs. Some people don't like doing them, but I think they're fun to do.