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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Some from life; others, well– not from life.

There were quite the number of… interesting characters there. One of them apparently a distinguished South Korean military official, who had just a few too many and began earnestly (very loudly) hitting on the lounge singer’s publicist.

“Ey, I… I’d ah, really like to meet you– your sister. You… do you have a si– sister? Cause I’dliketomeether!”

Good times. There was also that one dude who totally looked like Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood. I very nearly offered him a milkshake.

First up: Co-worker’s kid asked if I could draw Lilo. Hey would I ever say no? No! –’cept just then. Rock on, Chris Sanders.

Next: Brent and Jade Sienna! Drew them a while ago, but never posted it. If you don’t already read the exceptional webcomic series PvP (Player Vs. Player) by Scott Kurtz, then I suggest you start!

Powerpuffs and Dexter! Watched these three on Boomerang last weekend. Hard to believe they’re considered ‘classics’ at this point. Ah… nostalgia attack!

Capping off with an unfinished drawing of Yoda, focusing his wrath unto some misunderstood Col-Erase squiggles. May the force be with them.

All of the characters & series depicted in this post are copyrighted and/or trademarked by their respective creators/studios.

Playing with colors. Staying within the lines. It’s how I roll.

Brides. Of the non-living variety.