LG Art Blog

Lindsay Lohan's Interactive Bedroom

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:06:00 +0000

Hey guys its LaBamba!

This past week we made an Interactive game featuring the lovely Lindsay Lohan. It's basically a picture with a whoooole lotta buttons. When you click a button, silly things happen. Because there are sooo many buttons, we've decided to show you guys where each of them are hidden with this handy dandy cheat sheet. PS- Most buttons have more than one animation, so keep clicking!

Lindsay Lohan's Interactive Bedroom cheat sheet. Click here to interact with Miss Lohan.

Obama's Interactive Oval Office cheat sheet. Click here to interact with President Obama.

Happy Current Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:14:00 +0000

Hey, it's Shaggy.

I hope everyone had a great holidays! What kind of holiday feast did you have? I hope it was as good as the Italian stuffed shells and sausage I had! mmmmmm. I pretty much ate my weight in food each day and yet only gained 1 pound. Jealous? I hope not. The only reason I know this is because I was around a scale when I weighed my luggage for the plane ride to and from home and figured I'd weigh myself as well. Good to see my metabolism is still running strong.

This week we are creating a game where you have to sneak George Bush past the security lights and back into the White House where he needs to take care of some unfinished business. What business is that you might ask? Well you'll have to play and find out!

Here is a screen shot of the opening cut scene that LaBamba made.

And Here is one of the Backgrounds I did for the gameplay.

(Play it Here!)

Escape and Evade Game

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:10:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:59:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:50:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:35:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:13:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:39:00 +0000

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...

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:48:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:09:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:22:00 +0000

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

David Archuleta

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:17:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:40:00 +0000

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!

Flash Animation Extensions

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:42:00 +0000

Howdy friends, Its Shaggy.

So last post I mentioned fixing some problems in our work flow. One thing we are going to make use of is Flash's wonderful Extensions Manager. Basically this is a feature where independent actionscript programmers can write bits of code to help Flash users automate certain tasks and perform features flash doesn't have. Sounds like it's just a way for Adobe to not have to program certain things themselves, because some of these extensions fix some pretty obvious and annoying problems ;)

Here are the ones we are going to be using on a regular basis and links to where you can find them. Most are free but some cost a few bucks.

Enter Graphic at Current Frame - Author: Dave Logan - If you're on frame 300 in your root layer and double click into a animated graphic of a character, it normally brings you back to frame 1 of that graphic. this is incredibly annoying and a huge waste of time. By using the "Enter Graphic at Current Frame" extension, it will keep you at the same frame you were on before you entered the graphic. We assigned a Shortcut for this extension to the
" ` " key, which is the key above the "tab" key.

Anim Slider - Author: Warren Fuller - This extension is useful for scrolling thru a graphics internal timeline. It's really helpful for mouth animation and changing out hands. Instead of creating a bunch of different hand graphics that swap out in place, you can put them all in one graphic on different frames. Then all you have to do is select the characters hand and scrub thru the "Anim Slider's" timeline until you find the one you like. It basically does the same thing as typing a frame # into the properties panel. Very useful.

Keyframe Jumper - Author: Dave Logan - This feature jumps forward and backwards to the next keyframe. We assigned it to the ";" and " ' " keys because they are just above the keys that move you forward one frame on the timeline. This is useful for quickly checking your blocked animation poses.

Multi Swap - Author: Dave Wolf - This gives you the option of selecting as many symbols as you want and swapping them all out for a different graphic. One use is for changing out a hand to a different one after the animation has been completed.

Search and Replace - Author: Dave Wolf - This changes searched words in you library to something new. Just a good renaming extension :)

There are a few others as well but those are the ones we will be using most often. Make sure to check out all the other extensions these fine fellas created because there are a lot of other good ones. Another good spot to find some extensions is at the Adobe Exchange site.

-shaggy

Slippy's cool phone and LGs workflow

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:40:00 +0000

Hey Pals, Its Shaggy.

We are still crackin away at this pilot, but are in the last week or so. It has been a very exhausting and enlightening experience. One things for sure, it has brought to light many kinks in our production pipeline. I'm really looking forward to straightening things out once this is over and coming up with some more standard ways of doing things. As we move along and come up with new techniques, Ill keep you all posted.

One of the most important things to do before you begin an animation is a lot of preproduction and planning ahead to try and realize the problems before they arise. For some reason this has always been something that has been rushed here at LG. Normally its not to big of a problem because our pieces are fairly simple, and we usually have one to two weeks to complete an animation. What I want to do is a little more overlapping with what we are working on to allow more preproduction time for our bigger pieces. For example, while LaBamba and I are boarding and all that, the rest of the crew can work on smaller projects like "Robots Can't Act" that are fairly straight forward.

Anyway, just so we have something to post, Slippy took some really exciting footage of us working with his shweet new phone. His phone blows the Iphone out of the water because he can walk around and use it like a live webcam! totally awesome. I'm sure this technology will open a whole new world for the porn industry. (Oh and I lied about the footage being exciting)

Fun with Audio!

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:28:00 +0000

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.

Damn! its been too long!

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:27:00 +0000

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

LG Pilot Characters

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:39:00 +0000

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!

An LG animation on TV?

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:45:00 +0000

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 Desktops!

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:00:00 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all the turkeys who survived the slaughter over the last few weeks! Turkey, you are the one who has the most to be thankful for. I shed a tear for all your lost relatives. May a deserving American family appreciate your delicious carcass!

*sniff*

Now that that is taken care of, here are some FREE wallpapers! Sweet!

If you haven't seen the piece this was from, check it out here.

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Elves Gone Wild!

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:07:00 +0000

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.

Another Background Concept

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:00:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Shaggy!) — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:07:00 +0000

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.

Mexican Art Team!

noreply@blogger.com (Labamba) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Here Natty Red was creating characters for a scene in "Celebrity Telenovela" and decided to put the Art team in it. She made us all Mexicans! (even though more than half of us already are) See if you can point out who's who!