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)

Another Background Concept

We've been working on creating a background style for an animaiton we are going to begin but havn't been having much luck. Most the artists have been taking a crack at it so far, but we havnt found a style that fits. The problem has been that we've been adding too much detail and trying to come up with something interesting and unique. Normally that would be awesome, but we have some stylized characters, and we dont want to distract the viewer with some busy backgrounds.



This background uses the same line quality and keeps the detail fairly low. We experimented with different colors but, the Boss wants a "Simpsons" look, so we are going with the bright pastel colors.



Later Ill post some of the finished background concepts.

This is another video of me illustrating it! Snapz Pro is a sweet program :) I'm sure Ill continue to bore you with vids like this! Maybe one day I'll add the video thats not sped up. Exciting! A full three and a half hours of slow paced illustrating fun!

Background Concept

Here is a background concept style for a pilot we're going to be pumping out in the next month or so. It still has a little ways to go as far as looks though. I just don't think its there yet. Anyway, I recorded myself illustrating it! Sweet. It's recorded at real time. I'm actually half cyborg and can work that fast! Sweet. Plus all I need is this goo that tastes like baby food to keep me functioning.


The thing that sucks about this video is that I didn't start it until I already illustrated the bluff on the left, AND, the video of me completing it...got corrupted and didn't save :( So its just the middle of the drawing. However, you'll still get an idea of the process, maybe. It's all done in illustrator.

Celebrity Telenovela!

This week we are hoping to finally finish our fun new animation "Celebrity Telenovelas". Here's a screen shot of one of the many scenes. Shaggy created Sean Connery and his hoes, and Natty Red created the background. This should be fun so stay tuned!

Monique Version 2

Howdy, So over the past few weeks, we here at the office have been honing our halo skills in preparation for the launch of Halo 3. Nearly every day at lunch we hook up the projector and get our asses whooped by Labamba. You see Labamba doesn't spend his free time going on walks, taking time to smell the flowers, or sitting back and just being...he spends his time walking through the halo maps, finding the best vantage point to surprise attack you and then t-bag your body all while yelling "Ownage, OWNAGE!" Most of us here have learned to deal with it...all except our video editor. I'm kinda worried one day Labamba's not going to come into work and our video guy will arrive with a big crazy grin and some blood splattered across his cheek that, when asked about it, he will disregard it as some careless ketchup splatter from his morning hash browns.

Anyway, on to the posting. A while back we posted a drawing JoeZee did of Monique. Well, things were postponed for a while, but we finally came back to her and changed some things around. She came out a bit cuter and instead of being at school we put her on a train. JoeZee did the sketch of Monique, and I colored her and created the BG. These are two different BG styles she is set in. Were leaning toward the first one.

Decepticon'd-Gas Station Background

Here's a Gas Station background Natty Red created for "Decepticon'd". It was also done in Adobe Illustrator.

Decepticon'd-African Background

Here's another pretty background Bear Toes created for "Decepticon'd". Also created in Adobe Illustrator.

Decepticon'd-Golf Background

Here's a pretty golf course background Hairy Bear Toes created for the upcoming "Decepticon'd" animation. It was created in Adobe Illustrator.

Potty Mouth Ninja BG

Here is a test of the background art from Potty Mouth Ninja. The water, bridges, rocks and bushes have been made to tile. Lets just hope our programmers have the time to put it all in :)

The art was all done is Corel Painter with some Photoshop tweaks.

It should be a pretty sweet game. Look for it at your friendly liquidgeneration web center.