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!

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.

   

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 

OPERATION: VIDEOGAME:

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:

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 

HERE!

MALEE STRIKES AGAIN!

Remember 

my post about

Cartoon Network

not including

Codename: Kids Next Door

in their 20th Anniversary 

art book?

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

Cartoon Network 

coffee table book she designed for

one of her classes?

And her 

KND toy

package design?

Check out her 

portfolio site

over

HERE!

You'll love what she does!

THANKS,

MALEE!

GODSPEED: THE GLORY BOUND

I've known 

Cicero Deguzman Jr. 

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

GODSPEED 45/06

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

K/LLER COLLECTION

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

Danny Antonucci 

was here

to see it!