Interview

Well, well, well. Look who's just been interviewed on Randall Sly's 'Character Design' blog.
Yup, me.
Walk on over and have a look. Not so much for my interview but also for the many other talented artists who've been interviewed and have amazing art and designs to look at.

Thanks Randall.

Interview Here

Wacky

Here's a quicky. You've gotta love old wall paper patterns. They make for great backgrounds.

Busy,busy,busy

Appologies but I've been rather busy as of late. I'm working on a show that has me animating 4 characters riding a unicycle. Fun, fun, fun...

Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween.

Kind of a rant plus a drawing too

I guess this is kind of a rant.

Why don't we have more cartoons with heart? Or perhaps I mean soul. What I'm trying to get at is every so often we get one. I would think Ren and Stimpy had heart and soul. You really felt the creator wanted these guys to live. Spongebob's the same. You really feel like you know him, or you want to know him.
Now no offence to the individuals/commitee's who create the rest of the cartoons we see on tv today, but I don't really feel I want to know the characters in the shows.
Heck, if I was walking down the street I might even go out of my way to avoid some of them.

We need more characters with heart and soul and less copying the characters with heart and soul.

My opinion.

Saul Bass titles

Check out the cool Saul Bass designed titles on YouTube.To find more just go to You Tube and search Saul Bass.

My Rant and a Drawing too

I'm going to try something a little different here. For the next few Wednesday's I'm going to post a Wednesday Rant. Feel free to agree or disagree, comment or don't comment. It's just a rant. Something to put out there. So without further ado I present...

School.Enough already.


Why is it that we have so many cartoons that involve school? What's the deal? I mean if I'm a kid and I come home from school, turn on the tv to watch cartoons do I really need to see more school? Is this the only type of shows that appeals to T.V. Exec's?

I have a son in grade 3 a daughter in 2 and my youngest in SK. They go to school and usually have homework when they come home. After we finish the homework (which for a 8 and 7 year old can take a couple hours) we have dinner. After dinner they can watch a little tv. What's on tv? Superhero's who go to school. After cartoons we put them to bed and sometimes my wife will read Harry Potter to them. Guess where Harry Potter takes place? School. (Iknow Harry's a little different but still it all takes place at school.)

Remember when you were young and watched cartoons? Bugs Bunny never went to school. Mighty Mouse never went to school. The Smurfs, Scoobi Doo, and the Blue Falcon never went to school.

SCHOOL SCHOOL SCHOOL!!!!

Of course I know how important school is. And I realize not all cartoons have an element of school in them but hey this is my rant and I say give the kids a little break.

Gruesomestein's Monsters

Above is an episode of Gruesomesteins Monster's.

The show created by Riccardo Durrante and Mark Ackland. It was posed out by Ackland and animated in Flash.

I had the opportunity to animate Home Sweet Home(above).

In all, 5 5minute episodes were done. Hopefully someone will buy them some day.

Enjoy.

A night out

What's this? Two posts in a row?
What can I say, inspiration has shown itself once again.
I recently picked up Amid Amidi's truly wonderful book "Cartoon Modern".
It's everything I could have hoped for and more. I can't put it down and yet I force myself to so that I don't wear it out within the week.
If you like this sort of thing as much as I do please check out Amid's CARTOON MODERN blog.
And if you're interested buy the book at Amazon.com.

In the mean time here's my attempt.
The drawing was done with a black felt tip pen, scanned in and composited onto a swatch of 70's wallpaper.

Run

Run for Illo Friday.

A Fish

Illo Friday

A quickie.

I love the Muppets

One of the few places I have always wanted to work is with the Jim Henson company. Not so much as a puppeteer, more in the design area. One day perhaps...

Opening

Here's the opening for Mystery on PBS.Created and designed by Edward Gorey.
I believe animated by Derek Lamb, Eugene Fedorenko and Janet Perlman.Below that is Tim Burton's Vincent.
Boy I sure wish they made more of this type of thing.Enjoy.

Vincent

Yep.Still here.

I know, I know. It's been a while. A combination of things has kept me from posting for a while. Work mostly. You see there's an old saying "You can't see the forest for the trees". Well that kind of sums up the type of person I'm having to deal with at work. For obvious reason's I won't go into it but it has been a lesson in patience.
I've also been spending time doing development work for the studio I work for so that takes up a certain amount of creative energy. Especially when the project is a little empty.
Add to that an overall lack of inspiration and you end up with no posts for almost a month.

I don't know if anyone is still out there but have patience I will be back and hopefully poting more often.

There are alot of new blogs out there worth checking out which I'll post soon. Till then...


Ciao

Sacrafice and Skyline

Two quickies for Illustration Friday. I originally goofed and forgot that the topic was changed to Sacrafice instead of Skyline. Oh well, a good excuse to get off my but and draw again.
Enjoy.

B is for Busy

Wow, been really busy lately and have had a shortage of spare time. Here's a quick doodle for the time being.

S is for Simple

More fun

A sneak peak of two characters from a story I've been developing.

Circus