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.

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!

David Archuleta

Shaggy here,

So midday Tuesday of this week we thought up an animation of American Idol's, David Archuleta. We're going to be rushing to get it done by Friday, but all should go well. The best part about this animation is I'm out of town Friday so I dont have to deal with putting it together!

Basically, it was inspired off of the vulture in Bugs Bunny. Seacrest is going to ask David some fairly basic questions and David is going to get all bashful. What an adorable kid he is :)

LaBamba, once again did some great bodies for the characters. The way we are setting them up is creating most of the art in Adobe Illustrator and importing it into flash. Thats the typical way we do things here. All Davids blinks, mouths, arms, and poses are drawn out first and illustrated. Then they are set up in flash for animation.

Obama and Hillary

Hey, its Shaggy :)

This week we are working on a ridiculous piece called "Things You'll Never See" staring Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. To spoil it for you, they end up making out. Anyway, this is the new style we are going to try for the majority of our pieces. Its a bit simpler looking so adding new parts on the fly in flash shouldn't be so daunting and time consuming. Hopefully, this will add to the fluidity of our animations. Labamba and I had a week to create this piece, from the idea stage to the final product.

Here are the finals.

Labamba created the bodies and colored Hillary's head. I colored Obama's head

Here are the sketches I did of their faces

check it out 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)

Pee Wee and the Leprechaun!

Sorry its been so long since our last post. Busy we have been with a bunch of pitches the last two weeks. However, this week we're stepping aside to bring you a horrible tale of the worst accident ever seen! There was a sound like a garbage truck...DROPPED OFF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! The Angry Lep tells Pee Wee of this twisted tale!

Here is some art work we just completed.

How to Get Into a Celebrity Club Animatic Storyboards

Here is an animatic Labamba and I did for our animation that's going up next week. It has the same character from our previous piece, Prank, Tuna in the Light switch!

Decepticon'd Board 5

Here is the last board :)

Decepticon'd Board 4

And board 4 follows 3 in most circumstances

Decepticon'd Board 3

Here is Board numero tres

Decepticon'd Board 2

Here is board #2

Decepticon'd Board 1

Here is the first board for Decepticon'd. They aint pretty, but they get the job done :) LaBamba and I pump em out so the art/animation team has some reference. Tomorrow, if we run into some free time and the audio gets done, we'll throw together an animatic. An Animatic is the storyboards timed out with the audio to get a sense of timing for the piece.

Decepticon'd!

This week we're doing a Transformers animation that parodies Punk'd! It should be pretty evil. Here's the logo LaBamba did for starters :)

We'll be posting some quick boards later today and hopefully some sketches.

Potty Mouth Ninja Game Characters

These are the main characters in the upcoming game, "Potty Mouth Ninja, Enter the Pirate". They were created in Illustrator, and a pinch of Flash magic.