The Midriffs

EDIT: OMG THIS IS THE ONE HUNDREDTH POST ON THIS BLOG! 100!!!!! Yeah



sassy and pink!

theyre 5 cool teens looking for fun!

and they've got a passionable for all things fashionable!

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here's their original appearance in this goofy video i animated almost 2 years ago:



(in the original they had no lower bodies.)

SPEAKING OF FACEBOOK:
i know that keeping up with a blog is like so 2006. so you can now follow this blog on facebook!! so you dont have to keep checking back! Click the "Networked Blogs" widget over on the right hand column of this blog. (can I possibly say "blog" any more times in this paragraph? blog blog blog)

more naked bros sketches

forgot i wanted to upload these sketches along with the last post. The dad was inspired by Fat Blue muppet.

I just got done with a job and i am drawing a lot! like a whole lot! maybe if some of it's good i'll post it up!

Big purple pan

a weird pan of a little girl room. looking at it all at once it's apparent that there are only three walls and no windows! hopefully you don't notice it when it moves though. I had to look up tween girl magazine pages to come up with the wall posters.

from this week's cartoon:

Poast

Just a serene park

deadly assault!

yo... finished a big new nockFORCE, check it:




a few ideas


the devil's in the details i guess... get one angle wrong and it looks more boat than car.


damn i love pans so much. just the planning and the execution is so fun to me


the finished pan.

corporate art

heya, I havent posted in a lil bit... I'm trying to get things moving on the job front. if you're a young starry-eyed animator in NYC y'all know how it's been. but i got a lil bit of stuff goin and i'm still livin the dream I guess. Also, I'm learning to play harmonica.

luckily, nockFORCE keeps me mad busy. here's a short with the two chuckleheads tryin to sell out:



their pitch hasn't worked for them yet though.

while i'm here, here's a few life drawings:



put your wrists in the air

rev em round like you just don't care

swing your hips like you do when you jog

now look at yall...

YOU'RE RIDIN' THAT HOG!

vbros update 3

Venture Bros DIR. UPDATE number threee + nockFORCE

These blog entry titles were getting a little long, had to trim it down a bit.

Anyway, a new Venture episode has been unleashed upon the public!

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Going by the adultswim schedule, the airing order is all mixed up, innit? Well that's because the show was made out of order. But it airs in the right order continuity-wise. So no worries there.

I bring that up because this baby was the first episode I worked on! #27.

I was scared out of my mind, as you might be able to tell my some of the forthcoming drawings. Some of these drawings are... well... less-than-confident. And I'll admit that some of my timing in this episode was pretty off. But things seemed to turn out alright I suppose!



These were the first drawings I did for the show. I didn't really try to embellish the acting that much- I was still too timid. But my next scene assignment forced me to stop being such a baby:




Yo-S-I! One of the highlights in this episode is a hilarious and fast-paced "OSI theme song" sequence. I nearly shat a brick sideways when I found out I had to direct some of it. But it came out okay!!!



This is where I really got into it though: Please enjoy the acting on Shore Leave and his cronies. This storyboard sequence had some amazing drawings done by the art director Stephen DeStefano.



I hope you enjoy the episode!

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before I forget, here's a nockFORCE that I never posted here! Enjoy.

HORSES

also here's last week's:

nockFORCE triple

Triple-p-p-p-postin some nockFORCE

First up, some office related mayhem!



Then some fat cat bashing!



And finally a really lame joke.



enjoy

he's washed-up but he has good advice!

Hey check this out! It's another musical quickie.



and here's some sketchin'

Here we go it's animation time

new nockFORCE and some sketches!



So in working up to this, here's a crappy storyboard:



and here's some character design stuff! Took a while to design this character, here are a bunch of my early tries. They're chronological from left to right.



OH! and a shameless plug! Venture Bros Season 3 trailer:



I directed two of the scenes showing up in here: The one with the pirate captain and the kids, and the first few shots of the OSI sequence! Can't wait for June 1st!

ichi ni san chi

Yo yo yo check out this new video it's about Steven Spielberg using the VERTIGO EFFECT and the NBC miniseries MERLIN. Damn it's nerdy as hell



Also i have been working really hard on the all-new all-sexy NOCKFORCE.COM for all your nockFORCE needs

Also i have been trying to get better at inking with a brush. it's been really hard and I don't have anything good to show yet.

hot damn

Had a lil bit of extra time this week and threw in some fun stuff. check it out:



oog i wish i had something else to post... i just never use my scanner anymore

Character poses BILLY

It's Billy!



Check him out. He's having issues. Deep ones.

Here's some character art!

Another one

Been busy on all manner of stuff lately. But I worked a little harder on this quickie, there's some movement whoa mama!

nockFORCE political production blog

I guess I should just call this the "nockFORCE production blog" shouldn't I? Two goodies today:

Don't forget to vote! Super Tomorrow is primary voting for Brooklyn and most of America which is the perfect time to roll out a political nockFORCE short:



This one was great fun, because I got to do some caricatures, something I've been trying to improve on. Huckabee was the most fun to draw hands down! Rebecca helped me get these to look good, but after looking at it for a while I hate the Giuliani one. Shouldve made his forehead bigger- he's got this whole Nosferatu thing going on and I neglected that!

Here's something nock-related for you for non-political people!



It's not completely finished but it's all there! I was going to attempt to draw these characters on paper and ink them, but doing these guys non-digital just doesn't look right. I designed them in flash, and I draw them in flash every week. My only option was to do a composite of a lot of different flash elements. The background for the lower half of the poster is a rehash of some of this stuff.

Those characters at the bottom? Two of them were in the short pilot! Maybe we'll see more of them soon...?

hey everybody it's about that time

and here's that pan!



3, 2, 1... BREAK!

some more nockFORCE vids

two nockFORCE videos for you today: first up is "OMG Facebook Photo", which I'm sure you will understand if you've seen it happen:



Yes, this actually happens in real life. If you don't know, well now you know

That one was kind of a challenge because I had to create completely new character designs- usually the character designs in nockFORCE fantasy segments have monotone colors but since they dominate this short I decided to go for a two-tone approach with slight deviations for mouth colors (keeping the mouths the same tone made them harder to see). Rebecca told me she enjoys when I use basic shapes for characters so I tried to go further with that with these girly designs and I think it came out pretty good.

My only regret with these shorts is that I don't get to do much animation. Producing these weekly is kind of a strain but i STILL want to add some actual movement and it's rare that I get the chance to. I try to make up for this by experimenting with designs as much as I can but I wish I had more time. Ah well.

second is the nockFORCE video from last week:



This is exactly what I'm talking about. There's hardly anything going on visually because the dialogue is pretty much taking over. In these instances I like to think of these shorts as comic strips, basic posing and not much background variation.

A lot of animation people are always critical of what they deem "visual radio", just talking with characters not really doing much. I'm critical of it too, even though that's exactly what I'm doing. Hello hypocrisy! I try to make it at least somewhat interesting.

speaking of interesting, print this on a t-shirt and join the club:

Another one

all I do is post youtubes

I have a stack of post-it notes that need scanning. I'll do it this week I SWEAR

NEW STUFF

First up!

I did this last weekend and had fun with the animation. Is he "your boss"? how accurate am I?

Yes, the rapping cartoon duo that I am one half of has just completed it's new EP, with four songs of fun! Check it out at our myspace when you have the time.

Second up!


Winter clothin' is good drawin'.

Third up!

As you may have read on MY boss's blog(no he's nothing like "your boss" from the above youtube), the Venture Bros footage that I was so nervous about came back from Korea.... and it looks great! *PHEW!* It's really weird seeing your drawings and timing on screen in a cartoon like that. I'm never going to get used to it.