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

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

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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Exciting Things in the Big, Exciting Real World [Part 1]

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Since May 2008, I’ve been taking a hiatus from CalArts, and working as an animator/character designer/vis-dev at up-and-coming Veritas Studios in Burbank, CA.

And now that our foremost project, a kids’ language-learning series called Slangman’s World, has been airing around the world on AFN as of January, (soon to call a certain major broadcast network ‘home’ this fall) I’d thought I’d periodically post some of my own work that went into this production.

First up, ‘Cammy’ the chameleon plays a one-man-band in the German-themed episode, Kaputt. This clip took a lil’ longer to execute than your average shot, but it was worth the time– and still remains personally one of my most ambitious Flash shots to date.

This next loop comes from the Fall/Halloween scene in the Japanese-themed episode, The Seasons, where kids patrol the neighborhood grounds– hunting for candy to stash.
…at least, they do for the entire 3 seconds they’re on screen.

This shot represented by the initial storyboard drawing…

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Because of a time crunch by the end of production, this particular 6 minute episode (with the exception of the opening titles) was entirely storyboarded, animated and composited by myself, while the rest of the team worked hard to finish the remaining episodes.

…which means there’s a lot more art I have for this episode than many of the other ones. Such as this exploratory drawing of Mount Fuji…

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…not to mention production artwork of some Spiced Apple Cider and Hot Tea.

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And to cap this post off– a rough thumbnail of the character ‘Miss Crabby’, obnoxiously dolled-up to meet ‘Slangman’ in the French episode, Maison.

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This particular episode can be viewed online– like, right now. I took care of all Crabby’s animation in this one, so keep a watch out! ;)

That’s it for now. Tune in next time for more!
In the mean time, check out the studio’s new blog– I post stuff there every-so-often.

Special thanks to Jenessa for the title!

All of the artwork, animation and characters depicted in this post are trademarked ™ and/or copyrighted ©2009 by Veritas Studios. Used with permission.

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