Thursday, February 28, 2013

PEPPER ANN CHARACTER DESIGN

You
wanna get
a lil 
old school,
with me?

Like 
PEPPER ANN
kinda
old school?

Sure ya do!
So let's go!

First,
for those not up on
ancient
Mr. Warburton
trivia,
I was the lead character designer on
Disney's Pepper Ann.
And it was
FUN!

The show was produced in 
Los Angeles,
but I was in
New York City.
So they'd send me a script,
and a design list like this:
And then I'd get drawin'!

This episode,
THE MERRY LIVES OF PEPPER ANN
was based at a 
Renaissance Fair
so it was a HEAVY show.
Lots of characters in costume.
Here's  a samplin'
of what i done
circa 1998:













After I was done,
I'd fax my drawings to
LA.
Back then,
fax machines used those 
curly rolls of crappy fax paper.
There's be lines and shmutz all over the faxes
and the poor production assistants had
to use white out to clean them up.

Funny coincidence?
One of those production assistants was
Darren Clark,
who is now
our star 
technical director 
on
Fish Hooks!


Good times!









Monday, February 25, 2013

OPERATION: ART SHOW

It only seems right
that I contribute to something called

OPERATION: ART SHOW

I mean, 
after naming over 150
KND episodes
OPERATION: THIS
or
OPERATION: THAT...
to be included
in
OPERATION: ART SHOW
just seems
appropriate.

So what is this event,
you ask?
It's a benefit to support
these guys:


Part of the benefit
will be a silent auction
so some of us
Disney folks
jumped in to help
with some artwork.

Here's what I done:







If you're in the LA area
next month,
stop in at the event:

Sunday March 10th
2pm - 6pm

Hollywood American Legion Post 43

2035 North Highland Ave
Hollywood, CA 90068



$5 Entry, Cash Bar, Free Parking
(Walking Distance Metro Red Line Station)

Meet a K-9 Marine Team!

Many people aren't aware of the role that dogs play in our military. 
 Their superior senses are vital tools in locating people, drugs and explosives; 
and it’s estimated that a single dog saves 150 lives during its career.
 Items like heating and cooling vests & pads for extreme temperatures, 
first aid supplies, beds, not to mention toys and treats are 
essentials that our K-9 troops desperately need. 
Please join us for a very special art show dedicated to providing 
these extraordinary animals with the care they deserve.

   








Thursday, February 21, 2013

OLD SCRIBBLINS

I still gots a ways to go before I finish
my latest sketchbook.

So perhaps it's time to 
revisit an old one:


This hunka papyrus 
is from around
January 1995
to
May 1995.
(That's season six in KND years)

Sketchbooks
like this were
less sketchbook
and more of a place
to brainstorm 
story
ideas.

This particular tome was filled with
blatherings about
Operation: HAIRCUT:


Our motto on KND:


Thoughts on Operation: IT:


A probot:


Love for Bill Peet:


Post-It note doodles:


Meanderings on Operation: ENGLAND:


Comics from the New Yorker:


Notes I took while testing the early demos of 


Notes from a bonsai class:


The search for acronyms:



Clipped musings:


A LOT 
of sketches for
the never-top-be-realized
live-action KND movie:


Samurai:


And the lyrics for the 
sea shanty in
OPERATION: LICORICE


Here's how it turned out:


If you love those journal pages
like I do
then you should all
bow down to the mastery of
director Guy Moore
BG artist Gideon Kendall
and
colorist/writer
Alison Wilgus.

And I love finding notes like this:






Monday, February 18, 2013

KING OF THE HILL DO'S AND DON'T'S

I
love
checking out
production 
materials
from 
animated shows.

When you create a TV show,
you're creating
a living and breathing world.
And no matter what 
kind of world it is,
there are 
RULES.

Do "normal" physics apply?

Can a character take their head 
off and throw it to someone else?

Do they have 4 or five fingers?

You might not think it matters,
but since it takes so many people 
to animate a TV series,
everyone needs to know 
how to draw the same way.
And details are what gives a show it's life and character.
Right down to the way a character chews their food.

And every production is different.
Here are some great examples from
KING OF THE HILL:




To be honest,
KING OF THE HILL
never cracked me up much.
But I still love getting insight into 
how their show was run.
For lots more from 
their production guide,
skip on over 


Thursday, February 14, 2013

MALEE STRIKES AGAIN!

Remember 
my post about

It's
STILL
annoying,
right?

But 
sooper awesome
 KND 
graphic design
operative
Alejandra "Malee" Cuellar
knew what to do.

SHE JUST MADE HER OWN
KND PAGE
FOR THE BOOK!

Check it:


Gotta love her for that!

If you've been 
hanging out here long,
you know 
Alejandra's
work 
ROCKS!

Remember
her
AMAZING


And her 
KND toy


Check out her 
portfolio site
over
You'll love what she does!

THANKS,
MALEE!















Monday, February 11, 2013

GODSPEED: THE GLORY BOUND

I've known 
for a long time.


Back in the day,
we were both high-powereed executives in 
THE MEN'S CORPORATION.


C-Dog 
rocks the 
graphic design thing
pretty
hard.

And he likes taking
 pictures of 
motorcycles
and the culture they entail.
So much
that he started

And 
how charged was I to hear that he 
was in town for a gallery show?


VERY
sooper
charged!

So me and
my old lady hopped
in our
Honda Pilot
and...

Oh.
Wait.
Maybe we should 
have brought a motorcycle:


Anyway...
the gallery was
PACKED
with folks drinking 
cans of root beer
and 
checking out the hardcore photos:








Yeah.
And if Cicero ain't talented enough for you,
maybe you oughta meet his wife Katie:


She kicks jewelry the way
Cicero rocks graphic design:


You
kinda
needa
hafta
check out her

Seriously.

But back to the show:








You shoulda been there.

So much awesomeness
seeing our OG's
in town!


And couldn't help
wishing
cycle-afficianado
was here
to see it!