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

Fun with Audio!

How do you guys come up with all these crazy, wacky, and hilarious ideas YOU ask? Well today is your lucky day, because I will give you guys a sneak peek into our exciting, spectacular creative process!

Every single day Lg peeps come up with a seed of an idea. This seeds gets tossed around for a bit, and then BAM! A new Lg idea is born!

Monkey (guy who whips us), came one morning with an audio thingy that makes audio clips sound like a robot. Kinda like Steven Hawking-ish. So this amazing technology got tossed around for a bit. As it Filtered throughout all of our brains, creative juices and magic spewing from our pores, something triggered in Monkey's brain and he pooped this out! Here's his pitch:

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ROBOTS CAN'T ACT

We take extremely dramatic or funny movie scenes and recreate them
with the robot voices. The animation would be almost none other than
illustrations of robots in the character's costumes with their mouths
blinking when they talk. Example: Pulp Fiction

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Genius huh! So we slapped it in the butt, said "Congratulations Monkey, its a great idea!", he cried a little,... and sent it off to be created for your viewing pleasure! Wooo! Ron Paul 2008!

Here's some screen shots of the art done by none other than Joezee, and come to think of it, animated by him too! Go Joezee!

Robots make me giggle.

LG Pilot Characters

Happy New Year everyone! We are going to start off the new year with a pretty sweet post. As the two of you know, we have been working on an exciting new pilot with Mark Burnett. So today, here's a sneek peek at some of the main and sub characters of our beloved pilot. Enjoy!

Characters were sketched by our very own Joezee, who ya'll can see is da man, and characters were Illustrated by Cabana Boy and Natty Red, whose thumbs are bloody, and have gained 50 pounds each (33 characters in this pilot...eppp!). Goooo Animation!

Til next time adios amigos!

Elves Gone Wild!

Elves Gone Wild! This is an animation that will probably go live next week. Here's a sneek peek of the production. Enjoy!

Some concept sketches of the characters by JoeZee. We decided to go with the middle elf because the elf on the left looked too young. Santa's fat. JoeZee sketched these in .4 seconds.

The final version of the Elf. He's happy.

Here's Cabana Boy's sketch of the main Background. We asked him to do a generic large long background so that we can use it for many shots. We're lazy.

All fancy, illustrated...and blurry. We blur backgrounds sometimes so that our characters "pop" more in the scene. Its a good little trick if you don't have time for palettes and stuff.

Santa's gonna dance topless in this one. Eepp! Shaggy's genius animation's gonna gross you guys out. See how Santa really stands out, go blurry BG!

Mrs. Clause gets a surprise. Oh those mischievous elves!

Rudolph's gonna kick some ass.

Beartoes has magical hairy Photoshop powers. Beartoes really has an eye for colors and layout. As with all our recent games, and quizzes, beartoes makes some serious eye candy. Too bad he smells like a wet dog and dirt.

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.

Monique

This is a character JoeZee designed and Illustrated for an upcoming series.

Decepticon'd-Star Scream

These are some sketches that JoeZee did of the host of "Decepticon'd".