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.

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!

Damn! its been too long!

Things here for the LG art team have been fairly busy since we began production on this pilot. The only problem is, a few weeks ago we got 10 lashings for posting about it. Lashings suck! So we haven't had much to post since the pilot is consuming all our waking hours. However, we do have our good man Hairy Bear Toes hooking you up with some shweet games and quizzes. Unfortunately, this is a bit late because this piece will be launching in a couple hours, but any way, here are some images of the artwork he created...




The games objective is to figure out which celebrity was brutally hacked up to pieces. Don't worry though, no celebrities were harmed during the making of this game, just adorable defenseless puppies. (Nothing channels Hairy's creative juices like a good ol' puppy drowning)

You might be wondering how Hairy creates such wonderfully gory images of dead celebrities. Well I asked him and he let me in on his secret! "I use the 'gag and murder' filter in Photoshop. Its great 'cause it lets you specify the tool (knife, gun, anvil, etc...) and degree of blood in the murder. It also has a feature to simulate how long the body has been dead for, which basically combines Photoshop's 'rot skin' filter."

So i guess, he's not as talented as I thought. hope you enjoy the game!

play it here

An LG animation on TV?

Holy smokes! Its been a while since our last post. I'm afraid our blog traffic has dropped from 5 to 2 visitors! Crap! Ok shaggy, if ever there was a time to bring out the most amazing, sure fire content piece, now is the time! (when I'm in a high pressure situation i usually talk to myself in the third person) Alright, you need something drastic to post and boobies just wont cut it. I mean check out this comment on one of our last pieces featuring boobs!

"Seriously! Enough with the fucking boob shit. You guys don't talk about anything but tits anymore. The humor is juvenile, the voices are pathetic and this obsession with tits is just getting awkward. It's like listening to a virgin go on and on about all the sex he's had, to cover up the fact he's gay. Fire your comic writers and hire some new ones. This was cool in 98, but it's 2007, GET WITH THE TIMES!"

Obviously boobs are so 1998. Seems like Shaggy's screwed. I guess he will just have to tell you about his week at LG...

So, we have been working some nutty hours lately for an animation we are trying to get on TV! We've just begun the actual production of it and are in the process of creating all the artwork. Just recently we've finished up the storyboards and added the voice over audio to it. We brought in some amazing voice tallent! Tom Kenny and Tara Strong are the two most familiar ones! Nothing but the best in the biz for us! They all did an amazing job.

Here are some final backgrounds for the piece that Labamba and I created. They were all sketched in Photoshop with a Wacom Tablet and colored in Adobe Illustrator. Our last couple blog posts about background concepts were an attempt to come up with a look for this pilot animation. ( 1, 2)

Next week we will post the characters that JoeZee designed and Cabana Boy and Natty Red helped Illustrate. They are friggin' sweet!

establishing shot of the island off the coast of Maine (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba)

A dock where the first shot takes place (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba character: joezee)

Dining room. (sketch: shaggy illustration: labamba characters: joezee)

Zack's rundown new school. (sketch: shaggy illustration: shaggy character: joezee)

Restaurant (sketch: shaggy illustration: shaggy)