Filed under: Cartoonies | Tags: animated, best show, call, cartoon, emerald nightmare, john hodgman, jon wurster, locked in trunk, philly boy roy, phone call, ted leo, tom scharpling, wfmu
Hey all! I’ve been so caught up in the RAZ comics lately that I haven’t done any animation (aside from my day jobs) in a while. I decided to animate some audio from my favorite radio show, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling, in order to get the ball rolling again.
Got a couple seconds of test footage, but I’m not gonna share the footage until it’s all completed. In the meantime, here’s the first screenshot of Tom in the studio!
If you’ve not listened to The Best Show before, please do so post haste. It’s as easy as downloading the podcasts on iTunes. There’s even a “Best Show Gems” podcast with the best of the Scharpling & Wurster comedy bits.
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies, character, drawing | Tags: animation, caricature, cartoons, Comics, cult 106, drawing, illustration, kali fontecchio, nico colaleo, tara billinger
Here’s a little drawing I did of myself and my other animation artist roommates, Nico Colaeo, Tara Billinger and Kali Fontecchio. Together we are: Cult 106!
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies, character | Tags: breakdown, cartoon, Cartoonies, comic, cycle, keyframes, killer pop, killerpop, rad raz, raz, walk
Here’s a breakdown of those poses in the walk cycle I’m working on, just for kicks.
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies, character | Tags: cartoon, comic, keyframes, killer pop, killerpop, preview, rad raz, raz, test, walk cycle, work in progress
Here’s that RAZ walk cycle again, with a couple more frames and some color. Still needs more inbetween frames, etc.
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies, character | Tags: cartoon, Cartoonies, character design, clean up, cycle, drawing, rad raz, raz, rough, sketch, walk, walk cycle
Here are those keyframes from yesterday cleaned up a little bit. Now I need some more inbetween frames…
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies, character, drawing | Tags: cartoon, Cartoonies, pencil, rad raz, raz sketch, rough, sloppy, test, walk, walk cycle
So I usually do my animation in After Effects, parenting different layers to each other, animating their transparencies, positions, scales and rotations – stuff like that. However, I’m messing around with some more traditional techniques this week, and my first experiment is making a RAD RAZ walk cycle.
This is really rough: it’s basically my very first sketches un-edited. Naturally, I will be doing some heavy clean-up on this, as well as drawing the in-between frames, but here are the main key frames in super rough format.
-Jack
Filed under: backgrounds, Cartoonies | Tags: art, background, cartoon, Cartoonies, design, drawing, illustration, killerpop, rad raz, raz
Even more background art from the next episode of RAD RAZ. Told you there was a lot of new artwork to create for this one. Almost done with all the new backgrounds, characters and props, though, at which point I can finally move on to animating it.
-Jack
Filed under: Cartoonies | Tags: art, box, carpn cronch, cartoon, Cartoonies, ceral, concept, drawing, illustration, killer pop, killerpop, prop, prop design, rad raz, raz
Here’s a prop I just designed for the upcoming RAD RAZ toon, “Uncle Horace.”
-Jack
Filed under: backgrounds, Cartoonies | Tags: art, background, cartoon, Cartoonies, concept, illustration, killerpop, production, rad raz, raz, uncle horace
Here’s another backround I’m working on for RAD RAZ’s “Uncle Horace” short. As usual, it might change a bit by the time the cartoon is finalized, but enjoy the sneak peek. I like the moose head.
-Jack
Filed under: backgrounds, Cartoonies | Tags: art, background art, background painting, backgrounds, cartoon, Cartoonies, concept, illustration, killerpop, production art, rad raz, raz, toon
Still plugging away at the fourth RAD RAZ cartoon, “Uncle Horace.” This cartoon requires significantly more backgrounds. You’ve already seen 3, and here are 2 more. As the story stands right now, there are at least 4 more to draw! Stay tuned for this cartoon, and then stick around after that, as I’m considering doing a Thanksgiving special!
-Jack
Jack Cusumano 