Top 10 Sports Videos Animated Intro

Hey, It's Shaggy :P

Hooray for October! It's by far the best month. Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest Beers, Football, Halloween, colorful leaves, crisp refreshing air (although not as much here in southern CA). It just doesn't get much better than that! Plus it gives a great excuse to lazy around on the weekends and play video games or watch TV in your pajamas while eating unhealthy cheesy comfort foods. Gotta bulk up to keep warm for the winter!

So anyway, a few Weeks ago I did this intro animation for the top ten sports related videos and finally decided to post it.

Escape and Evade Game

Howdie Doodie everyone!

We've been really busy with client work lately so we haven't been making too many toons on the main site, but some of this stuff you guys will eventually see. Here's one of the six games we're making, its called Escape and Evade. Its an awesome Puzzle game where you have to make your way across a room without getting caught by the spot lights. You make your way by hiding and ducking in shaded areas. It's so much fun I'm sure you guys will like it. We're also making a shooting range game, a racing game, a flying game, a platform game and a throwing game. Busy Bee's we have been, but we are almost done, so hang in there!
In the mean time, go vote for your favorite candidate! :P Hairy BearToes is voting for Sasquatch for President, Shaggy is voting for a moldy sandwich for President, and I'm voting for Professor Plum for President.

Tom Arnold

Howdy, its shaggy.

Lately Tom Arnold has been coming into the office to offer his talents for an animation we are working on. Its called "Tom Arnold Saves the World!" Don't worry America, Tom will pull us out of this rut!

Here's a sketch and the final version :)




The sketch of his head turned out kinda crappy but I think I saved it a bit by tweaking the chin and mouths in the final illustration ;) Labamba created his body and pudgy fingers.

Big Foot goes to the Olympics!

Hola Amigos! Have you guys seen the video of that Poor Beijing Olympic weightlifter who broke his arm? Well this week Big Foot is gonna show em how its done! Here's a sneak peek of Mr. Big Foot, Background and Beijing Olympic Chinese man.

I used Illustrator to create Mr. Big Foot. He's a simple character with simple shapes so sketching was unnecessary.

Here's Shaggy's Lil' Beijing Olympic Employee doing his job. Shaggy also used Illustrator to create him.

Here's Shaggy's beautiful Olympic BG. He mainly used Illustrator, but a touch of Photoshop and Corel Painter.

Sex Position or Yoga Position

Hairy Bear Toes is working on a wonderful game called, "Sex or Yoga". In this game we show you a pic of a beautiful lady posing in a position and you have to choose weather it's a sex position or a yoga position. Hopefully after playing this game you will be able to determine if your girlfriend is in the mood and giving you subtle hints, or if she is just stretching and working on inner peace. This game could save you from some awkward moments!


Here is Hairy's design so far...



P.S. Hairy wanted to let you that "if you're looking for your puppy, its buried in his backyard."

Check it out here!

Coming up this week in politics

By now you've probably seen those youtube vids of a person who has taken images of themselves once a day, every day for numerous years and then compiled all those images into a boring 10 minute video. Well this week Labamba is working on an animation in the same vein BUT, instead of using images that have been taken over the years, Labamba takes you into the future! Here is a sneak peak of a time lapse photography of John McCain's possible 4 years in office! 2008-2008+4!

check it out here!

Characters for clients

Here are some character concepts made this week for someone somewhere that might do something sometime. The dude wearing the ACDC shirt kinda reminds me of Jamie Hewlett's work (just not as awesome). It was an accident, but maybe happened because a week or so ago i was reading an interview with him about his animation he did for the olympics. His work is awesome, and might have been floating around in my empty cranium while i was doodling and found an exit through my nose and ended up on the paper :)

This week...

Hey, it's Shaggy!

This week we were going to start working on an animation with Prez Bush, Dick Cheney, and of course Obama and McCain. It was going to be titled Presidential Olympics and feature the Presidential Olympic event of baby kissing. Baby kissing is a crucial event for the presidential candidates to express their tender side to the American People. With the right technique one can raise their public image, and still secretly taste some delicious babies.

Anyway, Later on Tuesday we changed directions and are putting up a silly Olympic montage this week. Also, Monkey came up with a good way to show the progression of McCain's 4 years in office if he wins. I wont give it away but it should be silly ;) Look for that in a week or so.

Also, if you happen to be a beautiful young lady, live in the Los Angeles area, and are willing to come into our office...We need you to star in a game we are going to create :)

If you're interested, send me a pic of yourself, and i'll get back to you with more info.
email... lgshaggy at gmail dot com

Here are some drawings that were done for the Presidential Olympics animation before it was canned :(




have a great weekend!
-shaggy

Story Boards and Artwork...finaly another post

Howdy, It's Shaggy.

Recently we had someone leave a comment about our lack of posting. I'm here to apologize and let you know that its all LaBamba's fault. Its a long story but basically it boils down to him just being WAY TOO SPICY! Oh wait thats not it. We're just overworked so much that by the time we are done drawing and animating our arms are nothing more than worn down bloody stumps...which makes it hard to blog. Either that or we are just kinda lazy...which also make it hard to blog, or do just about anything. So thank you anonymous person (who very well could be LG's very own Joe'zee) for inspiring us to blog once again!

I Put together a few pieces from our last two animations... "Hulk Smash Energy Drink" and "The 5 Most Awkward Koolaid Ads" (check out the final pieces by clicking the links)

Here are the rough animatics I put together in around 2 days each.





While I was creating the rough animatics, Everyone else began the artwork. Here are some ink concepts and final artwork for the Hulk piece created by Joe'zee.



We created Hulk Smash from start to finish in one crazy week. Koolaid was spread out a bit due to other bidness stuff getting in the way. So what happened was all the artwork was created a week before hand and then last week Cabana Boy and I animated it all and put it together in 3 wonderful days.

Hope you all had a wonderful 4th!
-Shaggy

People Who Died Pop Toon

Hola! It is me, Labamba! So this week we have started some of the art for an upcoming Poptoon called "People Who Died". Its about recent celebrities that have died. We are using the Song, "People Who Died" by the Jim Carroll Band as a guide for our version.

Here's a sneak peek of some of the character sketches that our talented artist Joezee has created. This one should be good so stay tuned!

Steve Irwin

Tupac

Heath Ledger

Kurt Kobain

Anna Nicole

Biggy