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.

s'been a while

lemme tell yall what i been up to.

1. Venture Bros consumes my days. I'm having an easier and easier time on the direction, but the first show isn't back from Korea yet, and that makes me kind of nervous. I hope my stuff comes back looking okay!

2.

3. Been gearing up for some freelance stuff. I got a really fun project to work on, one that I can hopefully show you soon. I get to collab with a hero of mine.

a taste of animation

Bonjour! There's a lil bit of animation in here!



I had fun making this one. hope you enjoy it I gotta get back to work now!

HOT CROSS BUNS

Hachi Machi! Another nockFORCE quickie!!!!! These might be grating on your nerves by now, I promise to get the second episode done as soon as I can



I haven't been posting much artwork lately... Between the quickies, working on the episode, Venture Bros day-job, and working on music I haven't had much time to sit down and do decent drawings outside of the crap I do in my moleskine on my way to/from work. Maybe I'll just scan a bunch of those.

again

Yet another nockFORCE quickie! Collect 'em all!

don't hurt me again!

new nockFORCE quickie!!!!



Okay I'm going back to work

SMELL YA LATER

uhm

woof. I'm dog tired.

Here's the quickie from earlier this week!



These quickies... don't have much animation. That's cuz I'm spending all my other time on finishing the animation for nockFORCE episode 2. I'll put up some storyboard panels later.

IN OTHER NEWS! The show that resulted from my first directing gig IS AIRING THIS SATURDAY IN EUROPE. So if you get CITV and you're awake at 10:15a on Saturday, put down that crepe and tune in! Or you could just watch the clips on the site I linked. That's good enough.

et cetera

Sometimes I just don't know