Breakdown BANANA Boogie

BANANA_Breakdown, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

I decided to play with my food today. I got a little inspired when I saw Spacesick's "Food with faces" so for the past few days I have been doodling with the wacom over some food photos I took a while back. I'm taking it back to the OLD SCHOOL with a classic B-Boy theme. I popped in some classic breakdance dvd's like Beatstreet and Wild Style to get in the zone.

Sorry I haven't had a chance to sketch out any new Throwbacks this Thursday. I did however come across some old Top Cat pencil test animation from back in the day. It was a great chance to animate to the wonderful sounds of Louis Prima. I hope this can tide you over until next Thursday. Oh! don't forget to click the pause button at the beginning of this post header to silence the hip hop beats.

Shinji Hashimoto DEMO

I like good Anime, and from time to time I see scenes in one that blow me away. Come to find out, animator Shinji Hashimoto tackled a few of them. He was also the one who directed the animation in "Kids Story" from the Animatrix. I love his sketchy style of animation and the way he incorporates the handheld camera effect. I came across his demo reel on youtube and thought I'd share it with you.

SUSPECTS

SUSPECTS, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

Here are a few sketches of some shady characters for a project I'm working on. Just a couple of characters involved in a dice game outside a barber shop.

Just thought I'd go over these characters with some thicker brush lines. Below is another shady character.

THROWBACK THURSDAYS 30

How RICH can you get? You'll never know 'til you've met... RICHBOY RICHIE. Hanna-Barbera premiered "The Richie Rich Show" in 1980. Rappers, Ballers and shot callers don't know jack compared to the richest kid in the world. One of my favorites of the 80's. This kid had it made, mansion, yacht, Butler and his very own robot made(Irona). Oh, I forgot to mention his goofy dog dollar. I plan on doing some more sketches of this cartoon so keep checking back.

MORE RICHIE



Jerry Beck over at Cartoon Brew has just announced the upcoming release of a Richie Rich Harvey comics classics book. This is a definite buy for me. Click over to Amazon and reserve your copy NOW!!!



More Richie Rich comics I found on ebay...

CREEPdoodle

CREEPdoodle, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

Cancerous CREEPS like to play DIRTY.

BLUE J

This is a Blue Jay I sketched out at work. Drawing birds can be fun. Lots of flow lines.

CEREAL KILLERS BLOG

CLICK ON THE TITLE ABOVE and vist the NEW cereal killers blog.


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.

BUY MY SHIRTS!!!!!!!

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!
If you haven't noticed the changing banner to the right, click on it to purchase one of my t-shirt designs on bountee.com

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.