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May 18, 2012
Clean-Up Test
I haven’t posted anything in a while because I’ve spent the past month and a half roughing out the backgrounds, and they’re simply too gross and unexciting for you to look at.
THIS, however, IS exciting: The first cleaned up animation key of Mr. Williams.
There were a lot of really ugly drawings on the road to this one, but here we are: clean-up design all figured out and yay-town.
PS: Yes, Andre knows smoking is bad for you (but also that it’ll probably get you laid).
March 17, 2012
Rough keys, batch 10.
Here’s a whole lot of Andre having a rough time.
Also: Milestone - Today I drew the last of the rough keys.
INSANE!
A year and a half of designing and planning and sketching, and I’ve now officially completed the hardest / scariest stuff - yay me!
Time for whiskey while sitting outside in the gorgeous weather.
March 16, 2012
February 21, 2012
Rough Keys, batch 8.
Creepers at the bar.
These dudes love watching the ladies dance, and they ain’t subtle about it. Pure filthy meat.
February 12, 2012
Rough keys, batch 7.
This is a bunch of poses from a sequence at the bar where she goes off on her own to do some dancing.
I was pretty nervous about diving into this batch because of the sheer amount of work I figured it would entail, but now that it’s done I feel like these are some of my strongest drawings so far.
Also: meaty boobs and juicy butts are really, really fun to draw.
February 12, 2012
Rough keys, batch 6.
HANDS.
There’re a bunch of closeups of hands doing stuff in this short, so here’s a handful of them.
A handful.
Of hands.
January 5, 2012
Rough keys, batch 5.
A little fashion show of Andre in his space suit.
While posting this I realized that I’m much further along than I thought: I’ve completed most of the roughs for seven of the short’s nine parts.
My nipples are hard.
September 24, 2011
Rough keys, batch 4.
Man, I’d forgotten how many close-ups there are in this thing.
In this sequence: Somebody’s drunk and somebody’s not.
4 of of 9 sequences complete - feelin’ good!
September 20, 2011
Rough keys, batch 3.
A short little sequence of angsty glances.
Car fights are the worst.
September 17, 2011
Rough keys, batch 2.
Oh boy - huge closeups and an action sequence. This batch posed some challenges, but everything’s going smoothly.
I’ve actually got more than this done, but this is all you get to see for now.
2.5 sequences complete out of 9.
Progress, yay!
August 20, 2011
August 8, 2011
‘Her’ wardrobe designs.
She’s in four different scenes so I figured she should sport a different wardrobe for each.
She has, however, only one gear - and it’s labelled Man-Eater.
With that in mind, her outfits had to be pretty over the top - ie: lots of skin and squeezy parts.
Wrawr.
August 3, 2011
A QUERY FROM tumblrbot:
WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
MY ANSWER:
The dirty south - and I mean, like, really dirty. Where the armpits’ll make your eyes water.
July 29, 2011
Andre’s wardrobe designs.
I was feeling icky about starting in on the first animation pass. Then I realized I hadn’t ironed out what Andre’s outfits looked like.
The only puzzles I should be solving at the animation stage are the acting and action; figuring out if someone’s bra is trimmed with either looped ribbon or waffled lace can be a derailing distraction, so here we are back at the design phase.
