Exciting Things in the Big, Exciting Real World [Part 2]

And now something new!

Here’s a clip and some artwork from a flash-animated series pilot I worked on at Cosmic Toast earlier this year.


Storyboard panel, sketched in TVPaint.

Without revealing too much, the show centers around a team of super-powered kids who take the fight against childhood obesity up an epic peg, mostly against their arch-nemesis… a crazed, sugar-tempting super-villain.


Rough color concept of jungle, painted in TVPaint.


Final background of jungle, painted in Photoshop.

And– with the exception of Marina’s awesome character designs and David & Max’s soundtrack; plus loads of great feedback– I boarded, animated and composited the entire short myself, on and off over the span of a month or so.

[UPDATE] I should quickly note that despite my heavy involvement in the process, that I am not actually the creator of the show– rather, that distinction belongs to Kenny, Bill and David. Just FYI. ;)


Rough color concept of sky & clouds, painted in TVPaint.


Final background of playground, painted in Photoshop.

Though, as show-biz goes, we’re re-tooling the characters to appease the target-demographic gods, and likely creating a new pilot from scratch.  A bummer, sure– but this new direction is already shaping up to be way better than the former.


Storyboard sequence, sketched in TVPaint.

I’ll definitely post more as we continue developing this series… but for now, a short clip of an epic intercept of our bad guy on his remote-island hideout. Enjoy! ;)

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All of the artwork, animation and characters depicted in this post are trademarked ™ and/or copyrighted ©2010 by Cosmic Toast Studios. Used with permission.

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3 Responses to “Exciting Things in the Big, Exciting Real World [Part 2]”

  1. Lindsey Fisher says:

    Hello,

    My name is Lindsey Fisher and I’m a student in Youngstown, OH. I have a project for a class where I have to use an image from the web as a background and I was wondering if I would be able to use the rough color jungle background you have up there? You would, of course, get credit for it, and if you like I can send you a copy of the finished product.

    Thank you for your consideration,
    Lindsey

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