Bugs Bunny’s 80th Birthday

A doodle I made in tribute to my hero, Bugs Bunny! Still the Acme of comedy all these years later.

Stoney Calzoney Videos

Some recent videos I animated for D.P. Dough, starring Stoney Calzoney! Lots of fun to work on:

“I’m a Real Calzone”

“R.I.Pizza”

“The Dip”

Pushed Too Far

Swing-set cartoon.

Santa on Saturday Nights

Santa cartoon!

Some drawings

Doodles, caricatures, and cartoons.

Musical Man and the Magic Kazoo – A Vincent Alexander Cartoon

I posted preproduction art on this blog, but never posted the finished film, so here it is! My MFA thesis film. Give it a look:

New Cartoon!

Happy New Year, all! Here’s a new cartoon I drew up. Expect more!

Musical Man Model Sheet & BGs

Still working on the pilot for my planned series Musical Man, featuring a cartoon superhero who fights villains that represent different musical genres. I’m working on the rough animation right now, and will have that wrapped up soon so I can move on to cleanup / color. Here’s what my character looks like, if you haven’t seen him:

Aaaand some more sample backgrounds.

Musical Man Progress

Greetings, readers! I’m in my last semester of the MFA program at CCAD, and I’m plowing away on my Musical Man film, a superhero parody in which a music-themed vigilante fights villains based around different music genres. The story is planned out and the voices (mostly) recorded, so right now I’m in the rough animation phase. I’m hoping to have all of the rough animation completed by the end of February, and then I can spend March doing cleanup and color. Here’s a sample of some animation drawings from one scene:

I’m also working on backgrounds. Finding the right color scheme is important, and I had planned a palette dominated by blues and purples to get a pulpy look reminiscent of Max Fleischer’s Superman cartoons of the 1940s. However, the cool colors I was using didn’t fit the tone I was going for in the scene with the country music-themed villains. Here are some of the backgrounds I drew up initially:

So, to me, these don’t represent the musical genre well at all. So I reworked them and came up with these warmer, earthier alterations. Nothing amazing going on here, but I think the mood is better:

Progress Check-In

Alright, things are going well! I’m well into animating my upcoming STAR WARS parody, which should be out around December 15. Here are a few stills:

And here are some STAR WARS backgrounds:

As far as my Musical Man film goes, I’m finishing up the animatic and working on the soundtrack. I will go into animating next semester. For now, here’s some villain designs: