CEREAL KILLERS BLOG

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This image above is the cool wrap-around cover art submitted by Derek Yaniger.


This is where you can see horrified takes on breakfast cereals by some of the most top notch talented animation artists/illustrators in the biz. I believe there will be around 50 different artists showcased in a final bound coffee table book.
Here's my contribution below....

PLAYING WITH WATERCOLORS

I thought I'd mess around with watercolors a bit for a short project that I'm developing. I've never really used watercolrs before so this project will teach me something new.


I added my character to this background started by my pal Carlos. He was giving me some watercolor tips.

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FLORA2, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

This is art I did a long time ago to promote my blog from my regular sites home page. Yo Yo fun!
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PRETTY FREEKIN SCARY

I illustrated this image below of a new property at work called "PRETTY FREEKIN SCARY" It's about a dead boy named Franklin who comes back to reclaim his life as a normal kid. I didn't come up with the original designs, but my friend Carlos and I have been doing a lot of the illustration work for products and young readers books. I'll post more illustrations as they begin to go public.


Here are some photos illustrator Carlos Villagra and I took of some "Pretty Freekin Scary" merchandise we stumbled upon. I think some of this stuff is going to be availabe around October. Just in time for Halloween. Most of the merchandise here is more girl oriented and accented in pinks. There are some cool things though, like Skull change keepers and wallets. It's neat to see some of Carlos's and I work on the shelves.

THROWBACK THURSDAY 29

Captain Kangaroo was one of my favorite live action saturday morning shows. Though it's not my usual cartoon related post for Thursday, It quite definetly is a throwback to my saturday morning childhood memories. Before any of the cartoon blocks or lineups came on, this show set the pace for that morning. It's animated intro style was like a mix of Peter Max and school house rock. The captain himself wore this pimpish bright red blazer with white trim on it and he had the sickest sideburns I had ever seen. lol. I recently learned that he and Mister Rogers were buddies and both war heroes. A lot of really cool segments appeared on the show like Bill cosby's Picture pages, Mr Slim Goodbody and Simon in the land of chalk. I wish there were more shows like this airing today for the younger generation to enjoy.

I've got to track down this book.

FLIP MAGAZINE

Check out this new online Mag about Animators, written by Animators. The magazine is put together by Steve Moore (no realation) and has a cool piece about Blue Sky designer Mike Knapp.
What really struck home was in the first introduction of the magazine by Steve Moore. It was the answer to the question, " Who are animation people?" Steve describes them best....
They are kids in grown up bodies. They are actors with pencils. They are geeks. They are average, middle-class family people. They are craftsmen. They are storytellers. They are young brats and bitter old men. They are naïve, sensitive, callous and egotistic. They are loyal and easy to manipulate. They are a colorful mish-mash of personalities with a creative energy capable of moving an audience to tears (and sometimes boring them to tears). They have a common desire to make their mark, to make films and tv shows that will be loved for genreations to come.
(it's so true)
Click on the title and give it a look see.
Thanks is due to the Cartoon Brew for posting about this magazine.


Below are a couple of supergirl concepts I dug up in my files. Thought I'd share the roughs. Hopefully I'll get around to flushing them out.

THROWBACK THURSDAY 28

This is my Live action candidate for a hollywood movie of this classic toon. I'm sure Emmanuel Lewis was a point of reference for the design of the original Rubik character. If not, they must've been seperated at birth. LOL



Below are some warm up sketches I did last night. A couple of my friend's comic characters in hip hop poses. Real quick and loose.

THROWBACK THURSDAY 27

I really need to make time to do more posts often, especially for the Thursday Throwbacks. I'll try to do these more frequently each week. I'm just so swamped with work. Anyhow, This week I tried my hand at Peter Potamus and his pal SoSo. I had fun doing these. I wanted to make him as fat as possible without losing his character. I also wanted to play a bit with the perspective on him while still keeping kinda loose and wacky. The second pic from the top is a work in progress (perfect example of me not having enough time in the day) Thought I'd share it as is.

This was a freelance design I did for a web add last year. I illustrated these all in illustrator CS with the wacom tablet. Came out pretty good, I think I'm getting a little use to drawing with the Wacom. Anyway, I posted an illustration of a walking castle a few posts back which was rejected for this same project. Scroll down and check it out.


Below is an old sketch I had laying around for a custom MUNNY design.

Random person SKETCH

Sorry, no Throwbck today. I did, however manage to sketch out this kid I saw walking last week with his skateboard. No Lie. I thought the imagery was pretty funny and I tried to capture his motion best I could. If you could only see him moving. Anyway, I think I captured it.

THROWBACK THURSDAYS 26.5

I had to revisit the last caveman throwback for this week. I actually started this project the week of the last throwback post, but due to freelance and other duties it took longer than expected to finish up. I incorporated the bird from the last post at the end of this and recorded the ending audio with my youngest daughter Madison (Her first acting gig. lol) I recorded myself doing the bird call in quicktime pro. (yeah that's yours truly) Loads of fun. I experimented with letting flash motion tween some parts, but really didn't like how it turned out. Other parts of the animation I used my knowledge of animation timing and tricks of the trade which made the motion look WAY more fluent.

Random Wacom sketch

I needed a bird for the end of this flash thing I'm doing. I also need to get used to drawing with the wacom (ya know, save a tree and stuff like that) So this I did super quick in photoshop. He'll do.
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