SAX Jr ROCKS GH3 "DragonFOREST"

Lil' Sax wanted to try out Guitar Hero, so I had him try out the hardest song on the game to see what he would do. I captured his performance and speed it up for fun. All his moves were made up on his own from his tiny little head.

Zombies

Here are a couple of Zombie concepts from my sketchbook.

Finished unfinished

Pushing 2 deadlines so I grabbed an unfinished character from my laptop and fished him up. Falling asleep as I tyyyyppppppp.........zzzzzzzzzzzz

THROWBACK THURSDAY "I got no strings"

I have a new addiction called Guitar hero. I've tried to play real guitar and thought it was really difficult to maneuver my fingers on the strings. When my niece stayed over for the summer, she brought this game over and I was hooked. It became an all out battle between she and I on the Wii for top score. When I began to get the true hang of it, I began to crush her in points (I'm really competitive) I started talking trash and for some reason I yelled out "I GOT NO STRINGS TO HOLD ME DOWN!" Later on I realized that this was a song from Pinocchio, so I quickly did a rough sketch which ultimately turned into today's Throwback Thursday.

This song is pretty fun to play....


(Not me btw)

OH! I forgot to drop this little bit of animated knowledge on ya about the Guitar Hero 3 game. There is some really cool 2D animation throughout the career mode of the game done by a great animation studio out west called Titmouse. The head of this outfit is a great animator I've had the pleasure of chatting with off and on by the name of Chris Prynoski. You might be familiar with his work if you've seen things like MTV Downtown, the opening credits of Afro Samurai, The opening animation of Avatar on Nick and Adult Swim's Metalocalypse. He's bean around in the animation biz for a while and I love his work. Peep the clip below....

This is why I like Bakshi

I've always loved the work of Ralph Bakshi. I came across this video of him at SD comic con over on Cartoon Brew. It's a MUST SEE. Bakshi tells it like it is, blunt and to the point. Make your own film.
Go out and get this book while your at it.

Kid stuff

This is an unused kid I designed recently for a new project of mine. He's got the moppy haired Marty McFly look going on. I think I'll store him away for another project.

ERNey from my sketchbook

Here's a collage/ painting from my sketchbook of Earnie. I really enjoy drawing Bert and Earnie in different styles and situations. This one is in my blocky style with a little abstract twist.

STRAWBERRY THROWBACK

Here's the way I visualize Strawberry Shortcake. Kinda like a rag doll with straw like legs. I also added this massive berry in her hat which covers her big curly yarn hair. She's still cute, but fun. These 2 images were my concept for the new strawberry makeover look which didn't get used, but I still think they're cool.



Here's the classic clip...

HEAVY ROTATION

As I'm working on a few new sketches and other personal projects, I've been listening to this English band called "The Go! Team". Their music is fun and full of energy. My kids love to dance to them as well. I recently saw a clip of their newest single on Cartoon Network as an interstitial. Very cool pixel style animation similar to the White Stripes lego video. Anyhow, I tracked down the full video and thought I'd share it with you all.

The GO! TEAM - "Milk Crisis"
Uploaded by Cooperative-Music

Seems that most of their videos involve animation, here's another.

The Go! Team - Doing it right
Uploaded by subpoprecords

GO! SPEED GO!

GO! SPEED GO!, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

I've been horrible at posting as of late. Especially with the Throwbacks (forgive me) Hopefully this will get me up to SPEED. LOL. I had this sitting around in my sketchbook all week, so I just gave it some color for the post. Speed racer the movie got slept on in the theaters this summer, but after seeing it for myself I thought it was worth every penny. Good movie, check it out when it hits DVD.

My color inspiration, the classic speed pose in front of the Mach 5.

OLD SCHOOL CLASSIC SPEED.


NEW SCHOOL SPEED ON SPEED.


The directors did a good job (in my opinion) on keeping the tone of the cartoon. The actors did a great job as well. A lot of people are quick to judge without actually seeing the movie for themselves.

more SPACEmen and Pussy cats

COOL BMW CONCEPT

This is just SICK! Very cool concept and a different way of thinking..