no pockets = no money

When your pants want to go one way...

...and you don't!

dinos and a horse

Here's the T-Rex colored.

rex sketches

Here's a little insight into how I like to work. I did a rough sketch of the T-Rex in my sketch book with a good old fashioned col-erase pencil. Then I import the sketch into flash and put him with a cleaned up character, so that I am working with the correct size relation. Then digitally sketch over the scanned pencil sketch. I will sketch all the expressions and poses needed according the storyboard, and then clean and color it.

You're not the boss of me

who's there?

Cleaned, colored and fixed proportions.


The proportions are way off on this sketch, his head is too small, his legs are too long. I'll fix all that as I vectorize it.

sad pants

horse walk

slow
I still have more work to do on this, make the hair wave, have him blink, a head bobbing action, and other minor details.

fast

my eyes

Here's more examples of how I reuse parts from designs I did in the past. In this case, the eyes from three totally different productions. When I design an expression that I really like, I am going to use it where ever possible.

reusing eyes and lips

Having worked as a character designer on many flash and toonboom series, and also on my stuff, I have a pretty large assortment of eyes and lip syncs stored on my computer. I like to reuse them whenever possible to save time. In this horse expression, I used the eyes from Toilet Puck.

giddy up

The ultimate short cut; take one design, color it differently, and VOILA, two character designs done.

Luckily I had a bit of practice drawing horse bodies when I had to draw a bunch of Mythic Centaurs on another project I worked on over a year ago.

Horse Lips

No sound on this lip sync post, I don't want to give away any dialog.

a horse is a horse...

...of course. As I stated before, I did the storyboard before any designs were done. In some cases the final design is worlds apart from what was roughed out in the board, even so far as boarding a character as a male only to have the character be female in the final design. However, in this case, I pretty much just cleaned up the rough scribble in the board without changing anything for this character design.

brontosaurus

She's a big one.

sex change

I haven't designed the horse yet, so he's still rough in the pic on the right. The rough board was done without any designs, no character designs, no BG designs. So what I am doing now is putting all the proper elements in the board, the proper BG's, and the proper characters, designed and posed. As you can see, one of the characters changed to a female in the final design, but she was originally boarded as a male character.