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..

Gain The World Music video

Find more videos like this on Channel Frederator RAW



This is an animated music video for the band Morcheeba, directed and designed by the talented mastermind Joel Trussell and animation collaboration with your's truly (SACKS10) I felt like sharing it here mostly because the youtube version that was posted on the web was a horrible representation. The animation was limited purposely to lend to the director's stylization. I hope you dig it as much as I do. Feel free to comment below.

Strawberry Shortcake card design

I did this graphic approach to the Strawberry Shortcake character for a Licensing show greeting card. The original design was much more cartoony, but I went with more of a sophisticated look for a change. I really don't do a lot of graphic illustrations, but this worked. A bunch of other talented artists did their take on other characters like Madballs and Sushi Pack for greeting cards as well. I will add links to their art whenever they upload them to the web.



This month (actually last month) I've been reading the bio on Walt Disney. AMAZING book. I strongly recommend this read. I also stumbled upon this rare gem called "The adventures of Isabel". I usually check out books to read to my kids from the library and I lucked up on this find. I really enjoy kids storybooks. This one had a really cool old school limited color palette. The story was pretty strange too. The little Isabel nibbled on a one eyed giant who was going to grind her bones into bread. Afterwards she beheaded him with a pair of scissors (no lie)

I GOT JUICE !

These 2 images have been floating on my computer for quite sometime unfinished. I actually made an effort to finish them up finally. These characters stemmed from my first college sketchbook years ago and eventually turned into cool concept of mine. The pink bunny (BETA) is our hero who fights off these red hooded trouble making CREEPS who like to multiply and trash everything.

Tek1 Robot/ SUSHI PACK GAME!!!!

This is a robot illustration from one of my properties that I'm using for Channel Frederator's awards booklet. The theme was "Robots in metropolis"




If you like Sushi and enjoy playing games online, you should definitely click over and play The NEW SUSHI PACK "Beat the Heat" game. I illustrated all of the character art for the talented Mr. Brian Emling who concept and put the game together. I don't play many games online, but this one is loads of addictive gaming fun. Click on the "Beat the Heat" banner to the right and check it out. Lemme know what you think. Let the kiddies play and explore the Sushi Pack webpage.


I also did this illustration and logo above as well.

SPACEMEN & PUSSYCATS

I draw these blocky headed characters from time to time and friends seem to like them. So I'm thinking of doing a series of paintings with them. As a theme I somehow thought that they would look cool with Spacesuits. Then I saw my cat curled up sleeping on my bench and thought how peaceful she was and how I would love to take her on a space exploration. So now I'm going to include pussycats with fur painted to represent each planet's colors in our solar system. This is my first page of many conceptual sketches to choose each painting. Feel free to lemme know which ones you like the most as I post to help me choose which ones I'm going to paint.


More sketches.

Beaten Heart

Here's a character I designed over the weekend for a scene in my little short film I'm chugging away at in the wee hours. His hobbies include collecting left hooks and right crosses to the face.



This guy is a double stack of FEAR who gives Beaten Heart the latest updates on what's new in the world of Knuckle Samitches. To the right is his insperation, KIMBO SLICE!!!!!!

My Mojo Jojo interview animation.

I was really excited to see this posted on YouTube. I did this animation of Mojo Jojo for the Powerpuff girls movie DVD as a special feature. I never got a solid copy of the final thing, so I was happy to see this posted. I also did the animated interview of the mayor as well.




The Extra guy at the end of this one was animated by the talented Mr. Jeff Fastner over at Primal Screen.

Just had to post.

Found this pic in a 50's ad book. I have no clue where it came from. Jellystone park maybe? Looked really cool so I just had to share it witcha. If you have a clue where this was taken, post a comment to let me know.



Someone in the comments section asked why there weren't any African Americans in the Flintstones world. Within my mental log of cartoon imagery I distinctly remember seeing something of this nature, then I had to track it down to share with you all. I present to you the "BLACKSTONES" (and I thought the first photo was bizarre)