Designing My Own Characters Is A Different Process

When I design characters for myself, I think less about design than I do about personality. In fact, I rarely think at all about it. I feel it instead.When designing characters for commercials or even for other people's cartoons, I rely more on design theories in the abstract. Like how to balance shapes and spaces that add up to a pleasing 2 dimensional graphic that is more symbolic of a general

The Precious Years

MORE ABOUT THE PRECIOUS TALES OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE

Li'l Buggers: Slab 'N' Ernie

Slab 'n' Ernie are real little buggers.They crave trouble and terrorize the other kids in the neighborhood and are a bad influence on all small things.Their uncle George Liquor loves the little buggers and thinks they are the greatest kids in the world. Wet clay that he can mold into God-fearing decent Americans.He steeps them in superstition because he believes that only a big dose of fear of

Happy 4th From The Ultimate American

Not me, but George Liquor who represents the highest pinnacle of iconic Americanism.George is my tribute to the American spirit and culture that I think was at its most influential and impressive in the mid-2oth century.He is an ultra conservative that enjoys the freedom, innovations, easy living and cultural achievements of a nation forged and built upon by generations of radical thinkers,

Ren and Stimpy Curiosities

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I think I may have an animatic of this scene that Eric Bauza made. I can't remember if Mike Pataki did the voice. He must have...

More Wilderness Adventure Layouts

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More Wilderness Adventure Layouts

The reason to do layouts here (in America or your homeland) is so you can create custom acting.By "custom" I mean creating original poses and expressions that only fit the particular scene and story you are working on.If you are just gonna use stock prefab model sheet poses and expressions, then there really is no reason to do layouts in the country. You might as well just send the script

Storyboard To Layout

Here are a handful of storyboard panels from "Wilderness Adventure", one of the firs Ren and Stimpy stories written. The cartoon was rejected 3 times in a row by hippie ladies who hate Republican men.people ask me sometimes what the difference is between storyboards and layouts. These few storyboard panels turned into 34 layout poses.Here are the first few.Layouts are where I tighten up the poses