aquarius watercolored

here's the watercolored cutout. The pencil sketch is here.

cut outs

I get to do something fun for this project. Originally the plan was to literally make stick puppets. So I drew some characters, colored them on watercolor paper with gouache and watercolors, cut them out. From there I was going to stick them on foam board to make them sturdy and rigid, attach the stick, and film the show just like that. But it looks now like we are going to scan them and make a digital puppet show in after effects. But it is still supposed to look like real stick puppets, with none or very little articulation. These are the actual cut outs I scanned. It's not supposed to be super clean, we want it to look a bit unrefined. I think the finished digital puppet show will look quite good. And painting with real paint is a very pleasant change from all the digital projects I have been working on in the last while.

greek heads

A couple of head sketches.

Aquarius sketch

Just a sketch of another mythological character.

working on the weekend

Here's one of the sketches. from some work I am doing at home this weekend. It is from a project about mythology.

greek

A sketch done at work.

just for fun.......because of Ricky's comment

Venus Fly Trap in color

Here's another one to add to my series of WKRP caricatures. It's only the second one I've cleaned and colored, the other one being ANDY TRAVIS. But I do have sketches of ARTHUR CARLSON, HERB TARLEK, JOHNNY FEVER, and BAILEY QUARTERS.

2 headed alien

This is the last of the screen shots from an episode of "MY GOLDFISH IS EVIL." The show airs on CBC on Saturday morning. This particular episode is called "JET STREAM ADVENTURE", and it is written and storyboarded by Errol Burke and myself, and produced by Sardine Productions.

Cyborg

In the series there is a character named Scoop. He is an old man that owns a news stand. He has a wooden leg and a glass eye. The glass eye is not at all readable; for one thing, the pupil moves around like a normal eye. It just looks like a normal eye. Nobody watching the show would ever guess that he has a glass eye. So in this episode we made the old man a cyborg and made sure his artificial eye was clearly artificial, we even had him pop his mechanical eye out of the socket.

Aliens

I was not pleased with the character designs in this episode of "My Goldfish Is Evil." Errol and I wrote a fun, inspiring, outer space adventures. We were supposed to be on the character design team at Sardine Productions for season 2 of "My Goldfish Is Evil", but we were not. When I saw the character designs, I was disappointed. The character design team had a chance to go nuts designing all kinds of interesting aliens, the possibilities were only limited to the designers imagination. Instead, the character designs were weak and uninspired. There were a few exception, I really liked the 3 eyed Alien Stanford character and the Desmonite character.

giant iguanna

In the script we tried to make Alien Stanford really LOVE his giant iguana, Lucy. A guy in love with a lizard is damn funny.

The Desmonite

One of my favorite characters to draw is Desmona, or in this outer space adventure episode, we made her into a Medusa type alien named The Desmonite. She was the most sympathetic character in the whole series, and the only archetypal character with a clear personality.

Shrimp Guys

These are one of my favorite designs in the series, the SEA DUDES, designed by Errol Burke. I'm glad we got to bring them back for this episode. They are too funny looking not to be seen again after just one episode.

Starfish Heads

The sequence with these Starfish Head aliens was pretty exciting. It got chopped a bit for time, which was not a problem at all, we boarded a long space ship chase so that there was room to edit scenes out of the sequence without effecting the story. The voice that was chosen and the voice acting is not even close to what I had in mind for the Starfish Heads. It's a shame that my involvement in this production ended once the board was done. The fact that Errol and I wrote the script and did the storyboard, you would think that there would be some communication with us during the production of our episode. But there was none. Even if I wasn't working on the show once the board was done, I would have loved to come in and see the progress being made on our episode.